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I resent my couch potato, tv-loving wife

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Dear Prudence,
 My wife and I both work full-time in careers that we love. Her work keeps her away from home for about eight hours a day, while mine is more like 11–12 hours a day. By the time I get home, she has already been on the couch for 2–3 hours watching TV, and it doesn’t stop once I arrive. This often dashes any drive I might have had to take a walk with her or do something outside together. Too many of her weekend mornings start with the TV also and turn into whole days of laziness. She expresses a desire to “do fun things” together but then I struggle to get her off the couch. We are in our prime, and seeing us waste away like this is just awful. Some days I just want to put a brick through that TV, drop to my knees, and beg her not to waste her youth like this. How can I step up my game to get her more excited about being active together? —Not Getting Through
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Re: I resent my couch potato, tv-loving wife

  • baconsmombaconsmom member
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    Um - she had to have been like this before, yes? 

    I mean, I work an easy day job. I know this. But after 8 hours, I'm still exhausted. I would love to have the energy to go to the gym or go out or, well, anything, really, but I want to fall asleep in front of the TV. 

    I have been this way my whole damn life. Which is why I married someone who also enjoys falling asleep in front of the TV. I mean, we made our date nights "Star Trek Night" for a reason, yo. 
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  • mrsconn23mrsconn23 member
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    It sounds to me like he resents that she has more free time than he does. I mean, she may be a little attached to the TV...but I wouldn't want to go anywhere with someone who poo-pooed me because I have 3 extra 'free' hours in a day than they. DH is envious of my WAH status and the fact that I work 8 and out...but my off hours where he is not home are filled with cooking, cleaning, and caring for our kids and he knows this (and appreciates it).
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    Heffalump said:
    baconsmom said(This is Wooz-level drama.  We told her no iPad until her room was clean last weekend, and she said "I can't believe this is happening to me!")

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    HAHAHAHA! Oh some of the shit that comes out of the kiddo's mouth...I have to walk away so I don't punch him...or laugh in his face all, "LOL O RLY?!"
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