Dh criticising tv choices

[Starreyskies]

So as not to dripfeed dh and I are hanging by a thread. We're trying, well I'm trying but I can't decide whether this is me being overly sensitive or not. It's not even over a big thing, it's just the emotional response it evoked.

I was watching Netflix, the bridgerton spin off about the queen, dh came home and sat down for the last 20 mins of the final episode. I was wrapping so half watching and when the episode finished it started series 1 of bridgerton and the first few minutes it goes quite quickly into a sex scene. At that point dh says, 'ugh you're always watching this medieval porn stuff, if it's not this it's game of thrones with all the porn in that or that other one'.

1. I didn't put the other show on it just started playing.

2. I don't think there was any sex in the portion of the episode he was home for. It was more sentimental

3. I'm a grown up woman who is able to watch TV

4. he hates game of thrones, I did like it but haven't watched it for at least 2/3 years.

I just feel dirty now, like I shouldn't have been watching it. I like the escapism, the music, the outfits and even the gardens but it feels ruined. It's just a nice easy tv show. I do also watch shows that have very little sex in too.

I'm not sure if this is actually arsey on it's own or if it's because my threshold for tolerating things is at an all time low. We're mid 30s just for reference

Iabu - he's correct
Ianbu - he's not correct

I mean, I would just have rolled my eyes at him and said "whatever, Mary Whitehouse". This obviously feels bigger because things aren't good between you, but I would try and focus on the big picture. You're a grown woman, you can watch Regency soft focus shagging if you bloody well feel like it, and Bridgerton is a massive hit because so many other people do. On the other hand, watching that kind of thing does make some people feel quite uncomfortable or exposed, especially if they weren't expecting it.

I'd probably chalk it up to an awkward moment and let it slide, unless negging you about your interests is becoming a pattern.

My DP watches animations which I think are banal, but that's his choice and I wouldn't say he was wrong just for liking them. However, as you say, this is about something bigger isn't it?

I don’t think that this on its own is a LTB moment, I roll my eyes when football is on again. You watch whatever you like, for me at the moment it’s cheesy American Xmas films.