To want to sit my own living room of an evening?

[FiloPastri]

I wfh, in the bedroom, as DH and I live in a small flat.
He goes out to work 4 days a week and when he comes home he likes to sit in the (small) living room on his laptop listening to YouTube videos.
I want to watch tv in the living room, however, I can't hear it over his bloody videos on his laptop.

He thinks this is perfectly reasonable and I should go and watch tv in the bedroom (which I've been working in all day.)

We do have other hobbies and things we do in the evening but it would be nice to be able to watch tv in my own living room in the evening every now and then. Aibu?

DHM and I together find a series we both like (currently the very historically inaccurate Vikings). When we are both occupying our small living room we both have something we watch together. Could you both do something like that so you both get to chill but not fight over volume? It’s sounds like a nightmare OP. You have my sympathies. Men are odd creatures.

Isn't the obvious solution for one or both of you to wear headphones....? A pair of 10 year olds could probably negotiate a compromise on this....

Please don't have children with this person

What a way to live! In the evenings when we are sitting in the lounge together we agree what to watch and we watch it together, so we can discuss or laugh together. I can’t imagine the pair of us sitting there in headphones or in different rooms and not interacting in the evenings.

We often watch YouTube channels together too, via the TV and again we reach consensus on which to watch and we have some joint favourites. Occasionally DH will watch something that is really more for me than him and vice versa. Perhaps you should look at watching stuff together.

He sounds like an annoying flatmate not your partner tbh

Like a pp said, you should get yourself wireless headphones. Most modern TVs have a slot for an adapter. This way you can listen to the TV in peace and have the added bonus of not hearing him when he tries to speak to you.

Aaah I say this phrase too! I wouldn't write it down but I use it verbally all the time.

I'm from London originally.