Hey, AITA I’ve attempted to watch many drama films or even series with my fiancé she’s a little younger than me but usually after a few seasons or even episodes she just gets bored and starts to immediately fall asleep and lose interest in watching and simply declares the show “uninteresting” or “boring.”
She wishes to watch “game of thrones” with me and we watched a few episode and she seems engaged and interested (but I’ve seen this before) I told her look I only want to continue if she can commit to finishing the series…
She then told me the other series were boring (Dexter, sopranos, and specifically mentioned “Breaking Bad” and said it became boring. I should note when she actually watched the show she enjoyed it but more often than not she would glance at her phone or fall asleep and then wake up into a different episode and have zero idea of what was going on which lead to her checking out.
I told her look maybe “dramas aren’t for you” and she told me “what no it was boring” – I told her I’m sorry maybe I can put maze runners in the bottom corner of the screen to help her focus the next time we start watching a series and needless to say she hasn’t been happy about it.
I’m sorry but if you find those series uninteresting or complicated or whatever fine she’s certainly entitled to her opinion. Calling it “boring” though to me is just absurd.
Maybe I am the asshole but I’ll be damned before I start over an other series to get invested for her to tune out and prefer doomscrolling nightly again.
Jfc you sound insufferable
YTA. Who are you to gatekeep her tastes in shows? Let her watch or not watch, as she chooses. It is supposed to be entertaining. With the way things are now, a lot of people are having a hard time focusing on anything, especially anything that requires thought, and all those shows do just that.
Why do you care if she finds it boring? Just watch it without her.
It kind of sounds like you hate her and infantilize her, making me wonder about this age gap, your superiority complex over her, and her future with you.
Can you just watch your own shows in separate rooms? Your not into the same things and thats fine, just stop trying to force this.
You are indeed an asshole. Guess you’re right about that.
YTA
YTA. I would call all the shows you listed as “boring” and I’m definitely not young. People don’t have to have the same tastes but you don’t have to insult her. Why do you have to watch a complete series with her? You are being so weird.
So don’t watch shows together. Clearly you two aren’t compatible in that respect. Dont force it.
YTA for not letting your partner have her own opinion. My husband and I don’t have a lot of shows in common that we enjoy together and that’s just life. I do not enjoy violent shows like Breaking Bad, the Sopranos, and Dexter. And she IS enjoying a show that you like – Game of Thrones – but if MY husband ordered me to enjoy it or else, I would just find another show.
You could always try asking her what she wants to watch, and then try to enjoy a show together.
YTA
*”I’m sorry but if you find those series uninteresting or complicated or whatever fine she’s certainly entitled to her opinion. Calling it “boring” though to me is just absurd.”*
You do know what an opinion is right? You can’t approach someone with 50-100 hours of television and act like they’re wrong for not liking it. Sounds like she gave them a fair shot, didn’t enjoy them. Being catty and talking down to her because she doesn’t like things you like is asshole behaviour.
Breaking Bad was so fucking boring. It’s my husband’s favorite show so I pushed through, but I don’t get the hype at all.
All I see here is you talking about her watching stuff that YOU want to watch. Has there been anything she was interested in that you sat through?
Insulting her wasn’t good, so yeah YTA for that.
YTA. Everything here screams controlling. The way you talk about her is how I hear teachers talking about Gen Alpha students who they can’t get to pay attention.
You aren’t her teacher, you don’t get to demand how/why/when she participates, you don’t get to force her to do things with you, etc.
From the way you talk about her, I’m reading “she’s a little younger than me” as she’s 14 and you’re 40. 🤣