And Another Thing

about my sweetie:

He drives me crazy because if he's watching something on TV or reading the paper, he doesn't like to be disturbed. He has nothing to say, yet, he'll want me to sit with him, doing nothing.

If I don't want to watch what he's watching, he'd still like it very much if I sit with him.

If he's reading the paper, he wants me to not talk (much) and let him read it, but he'd still like me to be in the room with him.

But if I'm watching something he doesn't want to watch, or if I'm reading something, he'll talk to me UNTIL I stop whatever and look at him. Then he'll be quiet.

He will sometimes, though, sit quietly through commercials and talk ONLY during the program.

If that fails, he'll get the phone and call someone to talk to. Then, he'll sit next to me, while I'm watching TV, and talk REALLY REALLY LOUDLY. And mostly during the program. If I mute the show, he'll leave the room. If I leave the room, he'll follow me.

The Upside to this is that I don't watch much TV. The Downside is that unless it's Law & Order, he'll do this almost EVERY time.

Then he gets upset when I spend *too much* time on the computer, or I stay up late to be able to watch what I want to (or read) without interruption.

It's irritating, and in all the time we've been together, I cannot get him to break this habit.

In his defense, he's not deliberately rude like this. And he's not mean about it or anything. He's just annoying this way, and he doesn't get that because HE's not interested, it doesn't mean that I'm not.

Sometimes, I think he's got some subliminal issue with not being the center of my attention.

Sometimes, though, I think that this is some man-gene thing he's got, and that he honestly cannot control it--much like the color of his eyes, or how tall he is.

All the time, though, it's annoying.