Does this get on your nerves?
By teeaye98
@teeaye98 (287)
United States
March 20, 2008 1:03pm CST
It really annoys me when my husband ignores me. We can be in the middle of a conversation and something good comes on television. He never says a word. I may ask a question, only to not get an answer because he is son into the thing on TV. It doesn't matter if we are talking about the children, or home, or the bank account. If something good comes over the screen (a commercial or show) he tunes me out.
Does this happen to you? If so, what do you do about it? Any suggestions on how I can stop him from doing this?
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7 responses
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
21 Mar 08
Oh yeah. It gets on my nerves royally. My husband does the very same thing and I just read your discussion to him. I told him now that sounds like you. He said he does nto do that but he knows he does. I could throw that television outside alot of times. There is more to life than a remote.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
31 Mar 08
LOL. Very true. I would love to throw the dang thing out the window too but it is a big screen and it wouldn't fit LOL. He grabs the dang remote as soon as he rolls out of that bed. I swear they would go into DT's if they didn't have a television to watch and that little gadget witht he buttons to push.
@karma118 (294)
• United States
23 Mar 08
Heck, my hubby does that 24/7 all I can say about that is to try and do what I do, when he's telling you about something that happened at work, or during his day what so ever, ignore him... When he gets annoyed and is like, "baby, baby? I'm talking to you." Just be like, "Oh, were you talking to me? Because when I talk to you, you seem to never notice..." haha it starts an argument at first but at least he gets it... or maybe he doesn't.. He is a man after all...
@teeaye98 (287)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I totally understand. I don't think I have time or enough energy to argue. The hubby and I were arguing today and I just had to leave the house and leave him with the children. He never seems to listen in an argument either. I have to find a way to talk to him where he will listen. Thanks for the advice!
@aretha (2538)
• United States
1 Apr 08
haha i have tried and nothing has worked for me. now i just get upset and continue to do the cleaning. he has friends to talk to why does he need to talk to me. i talk to a 3 and 1 year old all day so it would be nice to have an adult to talk to once in awhile. i guess men are just different. it just gets agrivating dealing with it.
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
21 Mar 08
I seriously think our husbands must be twins LOL because he does the same thing to me. We just realised recently that it's something he does out of habit and actually doesn't realise he does it, so I'm wondering if it's the same way as your husband.
We had a good talk one evening about it and he honestly had not realised he was zoning out when others were talking to him and then he noticed also that when they are talking to him and he isn't really interested in what they are saying, he walks off and leaves them standing there. Totally rude in my book but if I had not brought the issue up, he would keep on doing it.
Maybe you should talk to him about it as he may not realise what he is doing.
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
1 Apr 08
it used to happen to me and I never did find a way to fix it. That amongst other reasons........disrespect....i decided i didn't need it so bad. I am single and love being single. I don't know what it would take at this point to convince me to ever ever live with and tangle up my life with another man. From what I see, once you live together they get really lame and take you for granted and it all goes downhill from there. Women tend to do the same thing to men. You should treat your relationships as special as they were at the beginning becuz they are.
@mommyofangels (29)
• United States
22 Mar 08
Oh it happens and I can't stand it. It is one of my pet peeves. Which my hubby knows and still does it. What I want to know is how to get them to stop myself. The whole TV thing just don't try to hold a conversation with him in front of the TV. I use to have that issue as soon as I got him away from the TV it was no longer an issue about him being more interested in the TV than what we were talking about.
@teeaye98 (287)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I wish I could say it was that easy. Tee strange thing is that he'll bring up a conversation while we are watching TV and then he'll zone off. It gets on my last nerve. I always tell him not to ask me a question if he isn't really interested in the answer.
@keep_onwatch (2680)
• India
28 Mar 08
Yeah, my husband does that all th etime and as i m fed up now, i just go on in front of ths TV and stand there just obstructing him 4rm seeing, and when he asks what am i doing, i just say, listen to me first, i was talking to you b4 the show began and im not finished. Thats it he has to listen. Well i have done that few times and now if we r in a conversation, he definetely never even bothers to on the TV.
