To have a TV in bedroom?

[Harry12345]

Considering getting a TV in bedroom now in my late 40s, kids grown, I like the idea of a lazy morning or early night watching a Netflix documentary that my partner is not interested in. I’m worried though it’ll become a nightly thing and we will both just separate most evenings or get lazier at the weekends. What’s peoples experience of having a TV in bedroom?

It's fine, DW and I can watch shows/sport without interfering with each other. We still sit together of an evening and spend time together.

I’ve had a tv in my bedroom since I was a kid! I’m in my 40s, I’ve never seen the issue with TVs in bedrooms. Although we recently got rid of our bedroom one, only because we both prefer to watch stuff on our phones in bed so we can look at different things, we don’t tend to like a lot of the same stuff.

We’ve also got two sitting rooms with TVs in and my ds in his 20s has a tv in his room, so does my 11 year old, but she only uses it for gaming or films when her mates are over.

I don’t care about being separate from dh in the evenings, I’ve never wanted to do everything together. If we want to do/watch different things we just do it. We have different tastes (I am really not interested in the hours of how to build computer stuff that dh watches on YouTube!)

Hard no from me! Prefer the bedroom to be screen free as much as possible so that it really is just a place to rest and have downtime.

No, I don't and haven't since I was a kid. If I am unwell and have to stay in bed then I have my iPad if I want to watch some bubblegum stuff. I prefer to read or listen to a podcast/music.

No TV in the bedroom for me, people I know who have,lives are completely separate..as for sitting in bed,both on the phone.!!It's bad enough when you see folk in a restaurant ignoring each other and using their phones..we have a conservatory and summer house, for reading, exercising,if we don't want to watch the same thing.

I used to have one pre kids, got rid of it once we had our children because they were always in with us or we were too tired to watch anyway. Now it's gone I wouldn't have it back. We used to fall asleep with it on and then it would wake me up early hours and id have to turn it off or id stay up later watching it just because it was there.

@Harry12345 I only got one last Christmas as like you, I worried we’d be sort of apart from each other all evening.

But it’s great! I mostly read/do crosswords til about 9pm ish then retire to my bedroom and watch something on Netflix or BBC iplayer etc until I go to sleep. Also can watch a movie or whatever if DH watching football.

We are both semi retired now and spend a lot of time together during most days so separate time in the evening has not made us ships that pass in the night.

I have one and always have. Truthfully yes most evenings I sit in the bedroom and watch what I want and he sits in the living room...but to be honest even if I didn't have the TV in the bedroom we have two reception rooms and each have a TV as does the kitchen so I'd be sitting somewhere else anyway. He WFH so I'm not fussed if we don't sit together in the evening as I see him all the time. Although sometimes we watch TV in bed together...and we always watch the news in bed every morning

I don’t have a TV in my bedroom as find it not the best angle to watch things. Plus got Sky so costs me extra to have a second tv monthly