For reading the news on my phone

[lazysash]

Was a bit behind with things this evening as a friend called around so we had a good chat. Sat on sofa later, DH watching something that I wasn't interested in, so was booking plans for our youngest's birthday on my phone. We do Duolingo as a family so I did a lesson, and then sat catching up a bit of news.

He asked me what I was looking at, I said news and he said that I was rude to be looking at my phone. He said he doesn't do it on a night as it's rude so he then turned the TV off and told me to carry on looking at my news as he left to go to bed... so I did..

I don't look at my phone much in the day as I work and am really busy at the minute so rarely take a break. I feel that if I'd been reading a physical newspaper, he might have reacted differently 🤷

Can he explain how you looking at something you are interested in, on a screen in your hand is rude, yet him looking at something he is interested in, on a screen in the corner of the room, isn't ?

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Before i retired and dh was already retired he used to moan when i picked my tablet up after work "you've always got your face in that" i just told him to pretend it was a book. He was watching shit on tv i wasn't interested in and he doesn't like the stuff i watch so quite what he thought i should d be doing i don't know.

Oh geez!! My last partner was like this!
If he were watching TV, reading a newspaper, or reading a book, then it's perfectly okay to be sitting in the same room but "ignoring me" (not talking to me, leaving me to do whatever I'm doing, my own thing) for hours.
If I picked up my phone (which incidentally I don't do all that often) then he would immediately (!!!) start huffing and puffing and griping and grumbling.

My ex was exactly the same. Constantly accused me of chatting with other men when in reality id be reading news, mumsnet, looking at holidays etc. But if I had a book, wouldnt say a word.

We need a fake book phone holder thingamy!