DP is PlayStation obsessed - we’ve had countless argument about how he ignores toddler DD while on his PlayStation, and that it means me or her can’t watch telly in the living room when he’s playing it for hours on end. I suggest in new house he has the spare bedroom as a games room and take it up there, he doesn’t and this so we’re ‘compromising’ with it being in the living room with the promise to turn it off of DD asks for telly on or to play/wants attention from him.
But that’s a different story, but relevant.
Our current living room set up is TV on the wall, with two shelves either side with his PlayStation, controllers on display on one side.. then the router and sky box on display on the other. I’ve always hated that that’s the focal point of the room.
He wants TV screwed to the wall under any circumstance, I wanted it on or in a unit. So the compromise is.. it’s going on the wall.
I’ve suggested we can still get a. Unit to go underneath to keep fabric boxes of the kids toys toys and away.. he doesn’t want a floor unit and would rather just have the boxes..
On the floor? Honestly think at that point he’s just trying to be argumentative.
So then we move onto display/shelving. I’ve said I’d like nice units either side the telly, so I can display some nice decorative bits/plants maybe/candles and hang frames to make it feel homely. (And the floor unit where we could put his PlayStation and the sky box tucked away)
DP just wants the same set up we have now, two shelves to display his PlayStation and router ect - fair enough, he doesn’t want them in a floor unit as the kids will be able for tech them/mess with them.. so I suggest getting one of those TV units with the shelving that goes around the tv and under it, like the IKEA one. So TV looks like it’s on the wall( off the floor) we’ve go the storage underneath for kids toys/reachable things, shelves higher up to display his PlayStation and all.. and also enough shelves for me to put some nice homely decorative pieces.. he said no. Doesn’t like the idea of a unit.. just wants telly on the wall with shelving either side.
How do we compromise? It’s led to a pretty petty argument of “I just have to let you do whatever you want because otherwise you won’t be happy” - despite me trying to find an alternative that has what we both want.
At this point I’m ready to launch his PlayStation out of the window so please can someone point me in the direction of how to make our living room nice for our family and still include his ideas too? - because at the moment our living room just feels like a bachelor pad for him to game in, not a nice family lounge.
I’m very emotional at the moment, 31 weeks pregnant with horrible insomnia and so achy now baby is getting heavier - so I’ve had a good cry about it today and still can’t get my head around how to be a team in this situation.
It’s such a trivial and petty thing to have fallen out about, I know. But we have and I don’t know how to rectify it so everyone’s happy?