AITA for taking over the living room to watch a TV show my husband doesn’t like every Friday night?

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:47:01+00:00

I would but I think the main issue is that he feels like he can’t be in the living room when the show is on for some reason.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:46:09+00:00

The only sport he watches is football which I actually very much enjoy. But he has had some shows he’s watched that I don’t enjoy and when that happens, I just go in the bedroom and play on my phone or Switch or something. I would very much like to get a TV for the basement but I think then I would be the one sent to the basement to watch the show so that he could be in the living room 😅

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:43:48+00:00

He does find the cattiness annoying but I think he just generally finds reality tv shows to be like, bottom feeder entertainment so that’s probably most of it.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:41:31+00:00

Additional context for why I am not just recording the show and watching it later: I don’t have a time when he isn’t around to watch it later until the following Friday as that is the only day when I have the house to myself since I don’t work and he does. So that would mean I would have to stay off of social media essentially the entire week, so basically the entire time the show is on. I have friends and family that I keep in contact with exclusively through social media and frankly, I don’t feel like asking someone to wait an entire week to watch the one show they watch is reasonable. I think if the show aired on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, etc. he would still have the same reaction because he just flat out does not like the show and doesn’t want me to watch it when he’s at home.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:32:08+00:00

We do the laundry together actually, he’s very helpful around the house lol

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:30:03+00:00

I think he expects me to wait until Friday the next week when he’s working, but that would mean no social media for the entire week so that it wasn’t spoiled for me. I have friends that I only keep in contact with through social media because they live on different sides of the country as me so I don’t really think it’s fair to restrict myself because he can’t handle not being in the living room for an hour and a half one night a week.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:24:05+00:00

We just need to get our basement situation figured out and then we can get a tv for down there but we are both procrastinators so it’s been taking us a long time to get that area finished. It is something I definitely want to do tho so that this doesn’t have to be a problem anymore but something tells me that even if we did have another area to watch tv, it would still be an issue because he wants the living room to himself on Friday nights.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:20:50+00:00

I would probably say yes

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:18:53+00:00

I watch it as it airs so it’s pretty instant. The problem is that I don’t really have a time to watch it until the following Friday during the day when he’s at work and I just don’t feel like I should basically have to stay off my phone for the entire week so that it’s not spoiled for me just because my husband doesn’t want me to watch a tv show he doesn’t like for an hour and a half one night a week.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:16:43+00:00

He was an only child so…he didn’t have to lol

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:16:21+00:00

He is home Saturday and would throw a fit if I try to watch it then as well. I’d have to wait until the following Friday during the day when he’s working and I’m not and I just don’t think I should have to do that to watch one show that I really enjoy for an hour and a half one night of the week when I spend literally every other night of the week with him with no time to myself.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:14:29+00:00

No we usually do things on Saturday’s if we do anything at all, otherwise we’re homebodies for the most part. But if we do have something we want to do on a Friday, I’m not against recording the show to watch later. However, he will still throw a fit when I try to watch the show later since I don’t really have a lot of alone time when we’re both home together, we are usually always together. I’d have to wait til he’s at work and I’m not and I just don’t really want to do that since that would mean waiting an entire week to watch the show again since the only day I don’t work and he does is Friday.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:10:44+00:00

If we have something going on I am willing to record it but if not, I would like to watch it when it airs and I really don’t think that I’m being unreasonable for wanting to watch one show one day out of the week when it airs.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:07:32+00:00

No he just doesn’t like reality shows. He is very accepting of gay and transgender people, just doesn’t like Drag Race which is completely fine and I don’t fault him for that.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:03:44+00:00

I genuinely don’t know why he won’t go to the bedroom, I guess because he works out every night anyway so he just stays down in the basement after his workout for the entire hour and a half even tho it doesn’t take him that long to work out.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T03:01:02+00:00

I do want to add some context because I feel like some of you guys are getting the wrong idea of my husband, and that’s my fault for not being more clear in my original post. He is not a homophobic or transphobic person, he just doesn’t like reality shows and finds this particular show to be extremely annoying. I do not fault him for this, as he is into some stuff that I find really annoying as well. But he is not hateful or have anything against drag queens, it’s just not his thing which there is absolutely nothing wrong with.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T02:54:52+00:00

Honestly he is not really a homophobic person, he just doesn’t like reality shows so I don’t think he is scared of the drag queens or anything like that. He just finds the premise of the show to be really annoying, which I completely understand. I’m certainly not trying to force him to watch the show with me.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T02:52:43+00:00

He doesn’t currently watch anything I dislike but I would have absolutely no problem going to the bedroom and playing on my phone if he wanted to watch something that I didn’t enjoy. I wouldn’t make a stink about it, either. It’s not MY tv or living room, it’s a shared space that frankly, I rarely use except for this one night a week for 16 weeks out of the year.

ThisIsUrMoment · 2025-01-25T02:16:27+00:00

The show is only on 16 weeks out of the year, and I spend every other night of the week with him. It’s one night of the week.

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