Who controls the remote in your house? My guess is in most cases it is the man. That’s certainly true in our case, purely because I am a non technical woman who has trouble with machines. So this has been a conscious choice to let Mick take care of it.
Some men seem loathe to part with it ever. The way the carry on has to be seen to be believed. I have known women complain they never get to watch a full show because as soon as an advertisement comes on the husband switches the channel. Of course I don’t know about you but what I’ve noticed is most channels run ads at the same time, so that seems to me self defeating.
Mick is certainly not like that. Seems to me it’s easier to record the show and then watch it later skipping through the ads, which is something a few people I know do.
But back to the remote. I have known guys who are trigger happy when it coems to the remote. For some reason it seems to be more of a guy thing. How rude is it two switch of a show someone else, namely the spouse is watching to flip to another channel? Some couples I know have two TVS for precisely that reason, so she gets to watch what she wants and he could watch what he likes on the other TV in another room.
Mick and I prefer to watch our shows together and then be able tot talk about them.
The reality is I’d rather sit and watch something I’m not all that fussed on (like last night when we watched a James Bond video Mick got out from the local library) and be in the same room next to him, than be somewhere else watching a show. I tend to half watch the show and do crosswords at the same time.
Often though the remote issue comes back to a control issue. The same as the driving the car does. It’s also why many argument start. I guess when it’s all said and done that’s not my idea of marriage. Marriage is not about control but give and take and considering the other person.
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