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TV programmes...do you like the same ones?

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GaynorGoodwin · 14/02/2019 21:34

Hubby can’t stand watching ‘Cleaning Up’ with Sheridan Smith, so I have to record it and watch it when he’s not in. I’m fucking sick of doing this.
He’s getting really selfish over TV programmes. AIBU, how do we settle this for once and for all?

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LilaJude · 14/02/2019 21:38

It has to be an even split between things he likes and things you like. It’s fine if there are specific programmes he doesn’t want to watch but he doesn’t always get his way.

2birds1stone · 14/02/2019 21:41

My husband watches alot of sport.... there is one sport on every weekend for a set amount of months in the year.... he claims I enjoy it so it's a joint programme.... I don't like watching several matches in one weekend... he goes to the other room to watch them so I can watch my shit that he hates.

It has to be a equal split. I have managed to bring him round to watching some of mine.... call the midwife for one. If he wants to watch something I am not that interested in I will read mumsnet or a book.

Pk37 · 14/02/2019 21:46

Don’t really see the issue.
Dh likes stuff I don’t and vice versa. We just both record our stuff and watch it when we can like I will watch my stuff on a day off or when he’s busy doing something . And he’ll watch his stuff when I go to bed early or have a bath etc.. just works

Pk37 · 14/02/2019 21:47

That’s a lot of “stuff” Blush sorry

EvaHarknessRose · 14/02/2019 22:03

We both hated Cleaning Up!

AnyFucker · 14/02/2019 22:14

2 sitting rooms 😁

And Cleaning Up was shit

curlycat · 14/02/2019 22:34

We have stuff he likes, stuff I like, stuff he tolerates then stuff we watch together.
We just tape everything and watch it when it suits us

Kitsandkids · 14/02/2019 22:36

It’s quite rare my husband and I both enjoy something. Sometimes I think he purposely says he doesn’t like something just because I do!

Usually if I want to watch something I just say ‘is it ok if I put X on at 9?’ And he’ll grumble and say something like ‘not that shit again!’ 😂 But I watch it! At the minute he’s having to put up with me watching Shipwrecked every night at 9. I usually go to bed earlier than him so he can watch whatever he wants later.

Things that we do both enjoy, or have in the past, include Taskmaster, Only Connect, The Apprentice (though he claims he doesn’t like it but gets quite invested in it!), Inside Number 9, Miranda.

No advice for you really. Sometimes you’ll have to put up with what he wants to watch but then so should he when it’s something you like.

SgtFredColon · 14/02/2019 22:37

We have two tellies

Sophisticatedsarcasm · 14/02/2019 22:38

Me and DP like completely opposite tv shows, there are a few that we both like but we have such hectic lives it’s hard to find time to 2atch them together so we watch them separately. It’s a non issue for us really.

VampirateQueen · 14/02/2019 22:40

Me and DH have programmes we together and programmes we watch apart. My DH likes football and I can't stand it, so he records it and watches it when I'm at work and I like Call the midwife, which he can't stand so I record it and watch it without him.
If he doesn't like a programme you watch, recording it and watching it without him is fair, but only if he does the same with stuff you don't like.

Raven88 · 14/02/2019 22:40

Me and DH have totally different tastes in TV. I watch all my programs on my IPad and I let DH have the TV. He likes action and gore, I like documentaries and reality tv.

SlinkyDinkyDoo · 14/02/2019 22:44

Don't you have more than one device and at least two rooms in your house? It's not the 70s - no need to suffer or row about it.

Felicia4 · 14/02/2019 22:44

We have TVs in different rooms but we always watch TV together. If he is watching something I don't like, namely football, I read a book, go on the laptop or have a nap. If I'm watching something he doesn't like he will do the same. We have a good selection of programmes we both like as well.

Handsfull13 · 14/02/2019 22:49

Most of our programs we watch together but I have a selection I watch on my own. Either I wait til he's got plans and binge watch, he'll do a few odd jobs so that I can sit and watch it or if it's something I really want to watch live and he has nothing to do then he'll sit with me.

tor8181 · 14/02/2019 22:50

i like supernatural/vampire based type shows(supernatural is my fave) and horror films and like the soaps eastenders and coronation street)

he loves murder mysteries type shows and detective shows

kids like their own tv shows/fims and have their own netflix page and being 14 and 8(mentally 5)they like different things so we all have a giant (65 inch)smart tv each(3 in bedrooms, 1 in living room)fire stick,now tv stick

the only thing me and my partner like watching together is wwe or old wrestling(via the wwe app)and we do love a bit of coach trip on c4

we are all together 24/7 so the need for the adults to be together at nights for quality time and kids chilling out from school dont apply to us,because as a family we have all day together and boys need 24 hour care so we get no free time anyway

33goingon64 · 14/02/2019 23:01

DH is very tolerant of watching my choices. I refuse to watch his choices and read in bed instead. There's a few things we both like. Works for us.

CountFosco · 14/02/2019 23:11

We watch very little together, think Strictly is the only thing. DH is obsessed with cookery programmes, I like drama. He wouldn't even watch The Crown with me. Thankfully the DDs are Tweens and are beginning to watch stuff with me. Outnumbered has been a big hit with DD1.

BillyAndTheSillies · 14/02/2019 23:12

Usually we find something we both don't mind watching together and each watch our favoured shite when the other isn't around.
DH currently living the dream as I'm 6 weeks pregnant, knackered and retired to bed by 8pm which means he gets to spend hours watching NCIS and CSI or The Grand Tour.
We are an oddity in that we only have one television in the house so we do have to compromise sometimes.

JAMMFYesPlease · 15/02/2019 00:01

We have shows we both like and then shows only one of us likes. I record a lot to binge watch when theres a break in other shows. There are some I'll watch on the ipad with headphones so my DH doesnt have to and he does the same. Now we have two separate Netflix profiles because we were fed up of getting recommendations based on programs we watch individually.

However if your DH gets to always watch his stuff live that you don't like and you don't get to do the same, HIBU. If it's a case of he wants to find something you both enjoy and you don't want to then YABU.

JasperKarat · 15/02/2019 05:59

We have some things we watch together, often documentaries although we've just watched season one of Derry girls, we also have things we watch separately, but the other person will either watch the odd episode or be in the same room but reading or on the internet. We watch hardly any 'live tv' everything is recorded or streamed on demand

TidyDancer · 15/02/2019 06:59

We have some middle ground. I like a soap binge, DP doesn't but he uses this time to go to the gym. I don't like motor sport, he would watch it 24/7 if given a choice. We both like The Walking Dead and a good crime drama.

You either need a second tv or to find a way to meet in the middle.

Yippeee · 15/02/2019 07:06

I think it’s fine to like different programmes but exh used to spoil my programmes for me by walking in, looking at the screen for one second and declaring, this is shit. I used to hate it.

He liked a sport I hated even the noise of and would watch it for hours sometimes and he loved those American wheeler dealer programmes which did not interest me in the slightest.

You have to set yourself up in different rooms and respect each other’s choices.

Huntawaymama · 15/02/2019 07:29

We like totally different things. I always watch emmerdale, which is really the only thing I do watch, he'll then get control and to start with he'll usually put on something I can tolerate and then I'll head to bed at 830 and he'll watch "shite" for another hour before he joins me. He's good though if there was something else I wanted to watch he'll sit and play games on his phone or I'll watch them during the day

NameChangeNugget · 15/02/2019 07:33

YABU

Cleaning Up was appalling

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