Struggling
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Does your house have more than one room and one tv?
I watch it with my wife. I do it to keep the peace.
If Mama is happy, then everybody is happy.
Remember, she can't cut you off if she don't know where you are getting it from
Turn the thermostat down
Get under a blanket
Make a move
Get under a blanket
Make a move
I hope you have a good book to read. Or just play on your phone the whole time.
U think Sweet Magnolias is bad? ‘When Calls the Heart’ says hold my organic face cream.
My wife has never asked me to watch any of that stupid ****. I don’t make her watch Vietnam or World War II documentaries or listen to the Jocko or Shawn Ryan podcasts. There’s plenty of other stuff to watch that we can both enjoy.
Oh, Sweet Magnolias. I read this whole string feeling wimpy because I was thinking Steel Magnolias which I really liked!
Get up, tell the wife you need to go to the bathroom, leave and don't go back. She'll never know you're missing....From the modern man handbook. You're welcome.
Aw helllll. It just got worse. After watching 3 hours of that sugar coated bull **** about who loves who, now mrs skipper says we have to go to tin top grill in bon secour tomorrow for bottomless mimosas.
We’ll at least I can get some collar greens
We’ll at least I can get some collar greens
I made a big mistake. I was surfing for something for both of us to watch and came across a write up that said "This is a series about a doctor that takes over a hospital that's in trouble" or something like that. So we started watching. It's a continuous soap opera, boring as hell, and goes on for about 82 episodes. Wife loves it, and I sit by her side looking at my phone. Over and over again.
I made my wife mad because I kept calling that show Who Smells my Fart.
Oh no. I love tin top, great food. Only problem is she’ll drink bottomless mimosas, then make promises she won’t keep and then I’ll have to watch reruns of “Sweet Magnolias “ because she can’t remember what happened on the show last night
The Hallmark channel is a commie plot to weaken men in our country.
You're bitching about eating at Tin Top? You might should give your password to SPS to the Mrs and let her join the conversation.
Hey Tin top is actually pretty good. That one ill compromise on.
As far as tv goes we have multiple tvs. I watch stuff I want to snd she watches sappy stuff while I watch guy stuff. We watch movies together that we both like on the big tv in the living room. Which she did buy for me to watch games. But guess which tv she watches all the sappy stuff on? Yep the big tv and I'm relegated to the other room or porch to watch whatever. It works though.
I have a few solutions after almost 40 years of marriage:
1. Say "OK, I'll watch your program if you come in here and watch the equal amount of time of YouTube videos with me with subjects such as "How to install batteries and solar panels on top of the workshop", or "Removing the deck from the lawn tractor to replace the idler pulley thats about to disintegrate" or "How to build a squirrel proof bird feeder". That tactic is almost 100% guaranteed to work. If it doesn't...
2. About 10 minutes into her program, I'm usually snoring loud enough that it bothers her and she tells me to go to bed anyway.
3. I'll tell her I'll be there in just a minute. I text my brother and tell him to text me non stop for about 15 minutes. He always replies, "about to watch a Lifetime movie huh? After about his 3rd or 4th text she will say just forget about it..........
Edited to say that we just don't have compatible tastes when it comes to watching tv, she hates the stuff I watch and v/v so it really isn't that hard to overcome but the above topics have worked considerably well
1. Say "OK, I'll watch your program if you come in here and watch the equal amount of time of YouTube videos with me with subjects such as "How to install batteries and solar panels on top of the workshop", or "Removing the deck from the lawn tractor to replace the idler pulley thats about to disintegrate" or "How to build a squirrel proof bird feeder". That tactic is almost 100% guaranteed to work. If it doesn't...
2. About 10 minutes into her program, I'm usually snoring loud enough that it bothers her and she tells me to go to bed anyway.
3. I'll tell her I'll be there in just a minute. I text my brother and tell him to text me non stop for about 15 minutes. He always replies, "about to watch a Lifetime movie huh? After about his 3rd or 4th text she will say just forget about it..........
Edited to say that we just don't have compatible tastes when it comes to watching tv, she hates the stuff I watch and v/v so it really isn't that hard to overcome but the above topics have worked considerably well
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My wife watches that show also and I can't satnd it or anything on the Hallmark channel. Every time she fires up netflix and gets about 10 min into an episode. Say you need to go work on something in the garage or office. Grab a 6er out of the fridge and enjoy some alone time catching a buzz.
Every couple needs individual hobbies so you have a reason to spend some time apart.
Every couple needs individual hobbies so you have a reason to spend some time apart.
The only show worse than Sweet Magnolias is This Is Us. Thank god they ended that abortion. Every freaking episode was people depressed, suicidal, fat depressed (definitely portrayed as different from regular depressed), missing a dead loved one and acting out because of it, hurt by a close friend or family member, dying, etc. I started watching other stuff on my phone with headphones so that I didn’t also revel in these sorry a s s people’s misery.
My wife loves those. If ever catch myself in the room as one of those movies is ending, my go to comment is "I did NOT see that coming". The anger is palpable. Lolz
You all did it wrong. My dearly beloved's favorite genre is spy/espionage thriller, and insists on watching Band of Brothers at least once a year. Also, if she wasn't always in the kitchen making sammiches, she'd be watching the football.
Plot line for every hallmark movie ever made:
Boy meets girl. Girl already has a boyfriend; he wears a suit and has an important job in the city. Girl rethinks her priorities and dumps boyfriend. Girl and other boy fall in love. Throughout this time, loveable grandpa and token minority friend make several appearances. With 11 minutes to go in the movie, there’s some drama or misinformation that makes boy and girl mad at each other. But after a quick commercial break, they realize they really do love each other and they do a kissy smooch.
Boy meets girl. Girl already has a boyfriend; he wears a suit and has an important job in the city. Girl rethinks her priorities and dumps boyfriend. Girl and other boy fall in love. Throughout this time, loveable grandpa and token minority friend make several appearances. With 11 minutes to go in the movie, there’s some drama or misinformation that makes boy and girl mad at each other. But after a quick commercial break, they realize they really do love each other and they do a kissy smooch.
It’s colored greens. You don’t call them collared people. Jeez….
Yep. Became a bit of a HMC expert visiting my mother in her final years as it was all she wanted to watch. Just the 2 of us watching it sun up to sun down. They did flip the boy/girl "struggles" between city slicker dude and country girl "back home" with high rise corporate chick and manly man (yet sensitive) back on the farm/ranch as a change up. Seemed to snow a lot too.
Don't forget the full 20 min commercial free intro to hook you in and then a break what seemed every 5 mins till the end. My mother had a clock on a VCR under the TV so I could tell exactly where we were in the story line and what was about to happen including the 11 min mark "misunderstanding". It was kind of impressive how they hit everyone of those marks no matter the plot.
And we won't even get into what happened when they went to a "foreign country".