How often do you watch tv?

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My DP moved in a month ago and he always seems to have the TV on.

Home from work, TV goes on, we cook/eat/clear up dinner then he asks what we’re going to watch/he suggests something/hints that he wants to watch something.

I get the weather is horrendous, dark nights and being tired from work.

Every night this week we’ve sat in separate rooms and it’s a small house until bed. I’m not sure what I’m asking to be honest but I’m so bloody bored and starting to miss my old life. If I had no plans/nothing on I’d invite friends over/last minute plans. He’s suggested because we haven’t seen each other much this week that ‘we get cozy tomorrow night and find a good film we want to watch’. I feel like I’m intruding on someone else’s life in my own house.

I do watch something most nights, but usually after I've either got in from a meeting or been doing something else for the evening. I watch most stuff on Catch up, rather than 'live'.
I can't stand having the TV on if it isn't on for a specific programme to be watched.

What did you do / how did you and dp spend time before he moved in ?
Do you not belong to anything ?

Do you not enjoy doing things together?

or
Do you not have hobbies you do?

Seems bizarre when still in the 'honeymoon period' to be sitting in separate rooms night after night. This isn't about TV, this is a lot bigger than that.

What do you usually do? Read, listen to music? You need to discuss how you feel and teach a compromise

I might watch an hour or two some evenings but I can go days without watching.

How do you like to spend your evenings?

Why do you sit in separate rooms?

TV is on quite a lot here. If someone is watching something the other person isn't particularly interested in then they will read a book, craft or browse the internet, but in the same room. Teenage DS may sit with us or watch something else in another room.

Did you go out or have friends round every evening before DP moved in?

If I'm in the living room the tv is on regardless if I'm actually watching or not, in the kitchen it's radio. I hate silence 🤷‍♀️

Did you go out or have friends round every evening before DP moved in?

Why do people assume you can't be at home on your own without the television on?

If I'm in the living room the tv is on regardless if I'm actually watching or not

Why?

I hate silence

Ah. I find this impossible to understand. I can't concentrate on anything if the television's on. I need to get my hair cut this morning and I know I'll get irritated while waiting because the television is always on and I won't be able to read.

Very seldom. We didn’t have one for years, then DH, who worked in sport, needed one. However, we’re in the middle of a move, and ours is in storage, and the tv in our temporary rental hasn’t worked in over a month, which hasn’t impacted on me.

When I was a student I used to go running around 7 am, and was completely taken aback by how many people were visibly watching tv then.

I don’t watch a great deal of TV, my son gets half an hour of TV time a day and I always watch with him and we generally talk about whats happening in the show. Apart from that I don’t put the TV on unless there is something specific that I want to watch.

My boyfriend likes TV and seems to have it on all the time. If he’s watching something I’m not interested in I read, game, play piano. I wouldn’t go and sit in another room, that’s really rude.

We've watched three programmes this week, which is fairly typical. We'll probably watch a film on DVD over the weekend, too (or on the TV if there's any film worth watching). I'm not a fan of TV as background so it gets switched on for specific programmes and then switched off when they finish. If I want something in the background, I put the radio on.