To think it's normal to have somewhere comfortable to watch TV/a film

[Iownmanyleatherboundbooks]

Been seeing a man for several months. He's a widower with teenage children. We meet once a week usually. We eat out, go for drives etc but sometimes (before/after the above or just on its own) sit in his home.

He has nowhere to sit comfortably and watch a working TV/a film.

(The main TV is in his kitchen-dining room, where you'd have to sit on a dining chair at the dining table, obviously. His sitting room has a TV used only for games by his sons.)

He seems to have zero problem with this and is happy to sit with nothing to watch, chatting. I happy to chat to some extent, bug beyond that think it's normal to be able to watch some TV or a film together on e.g. a sofa.

Would this bother you?

*a lot of his time

*odd series

All this angst over where someone sits to watch TV

Yeah it was supposed to be a simple poll type thread, would this bother you or not?

It's a minor but irritating issue (also may be an incompatibility).

I don't think I'll ever try an aibu post again

Btw I feel no angst whatsoever, merely frustration at having to repeat and clarify things over and over - and over again to posters who can't it won't read he thread.

(and who also make gigantic negative assumptions).

It’s a horrible place here sometimes isn’t it, there’s rarely much need to sneer at someone’s interests or how they choose to chill out. Like there’s something inherently wrong with taking part in popular culture?

I don’t have live TV myself so it would be a ‘not bothered’ from me - increasingly becoming quite normal for people not to have televisions at all I think. But I’m no intellectual, I watch plenty of tv, just not at its scheduled time.

I was thinking it would be more incompatible if you both had firmly established tv viewing habits with no overlapping areas of interest in terms of content - you’d get really grumpy with each other really fast?