Other half or laptop?

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Title says it all, when you're chilling out would you prefer the art of conversation with your partner or the non challenging responses from cyber world???

I would have preferred chatting with OH. He, on the other hand, preferred chatting (obviously without my knowledge) to OW on his laptop through a FB game. So I was stuck with my laptop by default. He is now stbx.

Sat here with our iPads......

I don't have an OH but when I'm in company I quite like it if we're all online on our own devices and the conversation revolves around what we're looking at/reading, and we send each other links to stuff. I also really like having online conversations or text conversations with people who are in the same room or house as me.

Technology killed my relationship and now I'm addicted to mumsnet

Online gaming killed my relationship with the kids dad. I'm on my own now so I can spend as much time as I want on the computer, which I never had a chance to do before.

I'd prefer to be chatting or pursuing another mutually enjoyable activity with a partner not just that you filthy perverts, like watching a movie or playing scrabble or something but I currently am single again so it's not an option.

Chilling out alone is a wonderful perk of singledom and important for everyone, but I personally think that it'd be a bit sad for someone to actually prefer that to spending time with a loved one. It'd have me questioning the relationship tbh.

I think it's ok to spend a bit of time doing separate things on iPads and laptops, but the majority of our time together we are snuggled up chatting, watching TV and snaffling biscuits.

My dp does turn off his iPad when I come into the room as he doesn't want to be rude by continuing to play with me there, but sometimes we agree to have half an hour playing games or FB/MNing before we settle down to watch a film or something.

With my ex, I would watch TV and he would be on his laptop on a different sofa. It did feel very different, I would see something and comment on it, but he hadn't been watching and wouldn't know what I was talking about, it was a very separate existence, whereas with dp, even though we might be sitting watching TV, we chat about what we're watching and we are cuddling and kissing while sitting together.

Even playing games, we'll do a sudoku or scrabble game together rather than just playing alone. It's a much more sociable life I have with him.

In an ideal world it would be OH. In my world, when my superior being husband is too moody, tired, busy, etc., to talk, my laptop is endlessly more interesting and productive.

Hey-ho.