99% of marriage is sharing stuff you find and 1% asking if they heard you.
you clearly have not met my grandparents with hearing issues. it's like 50% "HUH?" and another 50% "how do you expect to hear me if you don't put your hearing aids in??"
But when you take them out your ears are so COMFY and nobody YELLS at you and you can’t hear your husband’s STUPID looping tiktok videos playing from the next room.
Source: hearing aid haver who sometimes takes them out at home or streams podcasts through them and just communicates through pantomime and lipreading despite my husband’s patient exasperation.
I think if you marry young, it starts at 1% and grows from there. My wife and I are approaching middle age, and we're only unknowingly taking to ourselves about 20% of the time.
Sounds wonderful. So far my experience is limited to 25 yrs of cute animal facts and the occasional "are you listening, dear?"
“Where is the …..?”
It's okay, the trade deal is YouTube videos on his phone, tiktoks from hers.
I purposely never joined Instagram. No one warned me about the amount of Instagram I would be shown after marriage. Even worse: the amount of abrasive and caustic noise pollution I have to hear next to me in bed from 5 second snippets of people's concert/wedding video shorts on Instagram.
My husband is constantly watching tiktok. The 5 second looping identical dumbshit music clips with screeching car noises on top will drive me to violence some day.
I bought my wife Bluetooth earphones. Same for myself. Whether she uses hers or not, I pop mine in. It has been terrible. We used to lie on bed and scroll, but still be able to speak to each other in between. That's completely out the window now and we end up just being isolated with our own screens and earphones now. It's so difficult to put across how bad this has been. I seriously have no idea what enjoyment anyone gets from watching videos that people record in some dark venue with music blaring and screeching.
Honestly, delete that shit and ask her to do the same. This brainrot isn't good for any of us.
I'm here for you, brother. We stand in solidarity.
My wife interrupts me, then makes me wait for the video to loop around to the start so she can make me watch it on her phone. Often it doesn't start correctly, so she has to try again. Invariably, by the time it actually plays for me, it doesn't live up to the effort that went into showing it.
If I want to share a video with her, I just send her the link via text like a human being. She can watch it when she wants to, or just ignore it.
Yeah, I have a friend that I share a bit of time with and she just sends me the links. I'll get around to them. I've never made her watch a YouTube video on my phone. Honestly, I'm not into YouTube videos as a general rule unless I'm looking at really specific product tests. So I'm definitely not forcing others to look at that.
Tell her to swipe to the next video, then swipe back. That will cause it to restart. Learning this little trick saved my marriage, and my life, because if I had to listen to that stupid fucking music slathered all over every damn video even just 1 more time, I was going to either have a fatal stroke, or go on a murder spree.
My wife actually agreed to watch the new Naked Gun movie with me and managed to restrain the urge roll her eyes through most of it. That's how I know I am loved. 🥰
I'm really looking forward to seeing that
It was pretty good. Liam Neeson was a solid choice.
It helps that I already occasionally tripped over both names and landed on the opposite one. Now there is a small chance the sentence will still make sense.
No I promise this one is really good!
Married 34 years. Can't say I've ever been forced to watch videos on my husband's phone. Although if he's splitting a gut, I usually ask if I can watch it. Married doesn't mean attached at the hip or phone.
What is “splitting a gut”?
Committing sepuku. It's the wife's responsibility to stitch a man back up after doing this.
Laughing so hard as to cause abdominal cramping
Uncontrollable laughter
I don't get it.
She wants to get married, but apparently men constantly show videos on their phones, which she doesn't want.
Is that a thing? Maybe I don't know enough guys? The only person insisting on showing me videos on their phone is my wife so...
Or maybe she thinks it's an SO thing. I guess that would make more sense, now I think about it. For sure, my wife is the only person I tolerate this nonsense from.
It's an exaggeration. A joke. People often force their favorite videos on other people and it sucks.
Yeah but now I know all about dehumidifiers, what are you bringing to the relationship, Blair?
On the opposite end it's dogs for some reason.
I want a relationship, but I don't ever want to live with a dog. Apparently that's literally impossible if women's profiles on dating sites can be extrapolated to the general population of women lol
I had an ex where I literally made a rule she could only show me five dog pictures per day.
my wife wanted a dog until we had a kid. I don't think she's willing to take on any additional responsibilities at this point.
So... Jeez... I guess my advice is "make a lot of rules and try knocking them up" ... But somehow that doesn't seem like good advice...
My "problem" is that if I know they want/love dogs then I feel like it's wrong for me to pursue a relationship with them. I wouldn't want to make them give up something they really want/love just to be with me
(I'm definitely not that special lol)
Your information is out of date. It's actually so much worse now: we've got bros out here trying to get people to look at their slopgen videos. 😒
I must be a woman because I do not force people to watch YouTube videos 💖💖💖
Cast the screen to a TV?
That’s quickly turning into a privilege only a portion of the population will know about.
We can watch them on your phone.
Marry a lady!
Also, pedantry: activate! It's not an either-or situation -- it's a both situation.
(sigh) is this it for life? Just a never ending struggle between the biological urge to couple up and a desire to tell absolutely everyone to just fuck off so they're not disrupting your peace you're not disrupting their peace.
I'm done. Fuck it. I'm making an exit plan.
Nooo Pyro it’s okay buddy
but what if that video is about a master craftsman transforming an old book into a genuine masterpiece? it's only 2h 🥺
It's only 37 minutes of technical off-road driving get over it
Wait so if I see a cheeseburger I can’t pull up the 3 second clip of Ecchan saying "Cheeseboige"? That’s cruel.
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
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