DH and his iPad

nikkijd17 · March 2014

Guests are coming and DH has been playing words with friends and some ridiculous other game on his iPad all morning. I'm running around like a crazy person with a baby that doesn't want to nap or just wants my boob and he keeps going back to that damn iPad. I have some words for him, and they aren't friendly. So, who else has a SO with an electronic device addiction?

kiki1978 · March 2014

My DH plays clash of clans on his iPad all the time. He'll be holding the baby playing his game. He takes it into the bathroom with him. I'm close to saying something about it.

MeganWorden · March 2014

Oh yeah. It was really bad before lo was born. We would have family or friends up to visit and I would have to literally threaten to put an ax through his computer if he did not "unplug" for a while. We made an agreement before we got pregnant that once lo was born, he was no longer allowed to play games that he could not pause and walk away from at a moments notice. So far he has been very good about it. He is still addicted to looking at imgur and reddit stuff and I hae to tell him to come to bed like 12 times every night but its better.

SandFHasse · March 2014

It's the Xbox. Not only does he have the 360, but now he has the Xbox one too. DD constantly climbs on him and he ignores her. DS can be screaming his head off next to him and won't do anything about it. I want to throw the damn video games out the window.

Miisskrisssy · March 2014

kiki1978 said:
My DH plays clash of clans on his iPad all the time. He'll be holding the baby playing his game. He takes it into the bathroom with him. I'm close to saying something about it.

This. Except it's on his phone. And I say multiple things about it. It drives me nuts!

Babychuu · March 2014

My DH almost never leaves his computer when he's home. If I ask him to grab something/do something he will, but he heads back to the screen immediately. He's in love with the damned thing.

Eta: I'm mobile and can only input if I quote, for some reason, and now the quote box won't go away

/:)

cnctf · March 2014

S/O is always on his phone looking at car parts or car stuff.

RedSaffron · March 2014

@cnctf holy shit girl, our guys are twinsies too! He doesn't play games, but always on his iPhone looking at Craigslist for cars (hence why we got another truck..) and car parts.

sehudson821 · March 2014

kiki1978 said:
My DH plays clash of clans on his iPad all the time. He'll be holding the baby playing his game. He takes it into the bathroom with him. I'm close to saying something about it.

This exactly!

Siblynika · March 2014

kiki1978 said:
My DH plays clash of clans on his iPad all the time. He'll be holding the baby playing his game. He takes it into the bathroom with him. I'm close to saying something about it.

This. Fucking hate clash of clans. He'll let LO cry next to him if he's in the middle of a raid, while I'm in the shower or attempting to finish some household chore. I'm ready to hulk smash that thing.

MIT721 · March 2014

My DH has always been obsessed with electronics. He got a huge big boy job and bought an XboxOne. If I hear the FIFA theme music one more time I'm going to stuff a soccer ball up his a$$. One good thing is he tied the XboxOne to the TV so I can tell the TV to change the channel or switch to Netflix or what have you.

casholmes · March 2014

I'm the one addicted to the computer tbh

bnik · March 2014

Xbox and play station. I've always got my phone though but that doesn't stop me from doing things

cnwilbur1030 · March 2014

Yes! We had to institue a no-electronics-night on Thursdays. What gets me is that he will stop mid sentence to look at something in his iPad and then finish talking a few min later. Grrrrr!

nikkijd17 · March 2014

cnwilbur1030 said:
Yes! We had to institue a no-electronics-night on Thursdays. What gets me is that he will stop mid sentence to look at something in his iPad and then finish talking a few min later. Grrrrr!

That's a fantastic idea. I wonder if he'll ask for a divorce if I throw that concept at him.

jblank03 · March 2014

So 100% this is my life. First is was some game called RoboDefense on his phone, now on his new tablet it's a car racing game and some Finding Nemo game that's for kids 5+ yet somehow my 29 year old DH with an MBA is freaking obsessed with it. NOTHING pisses me off more than when he tells me to 'hold on' when he's playing these games. It is maddening!! We've had multiple talks and it'll get better for maybe a day. I was told to not worry because he just beat the car game and is almost at the top level on Nemo. But I know he'll find something else.... it's his uber-competitiveness or something.

Anyone else's DH also play the geo-caching game Ingress where they have to drive around? This was an obsession of his until a couple of months ago but I was already informed (ok, he did ask) that he's going 45 minutes away tomorrow to take over portals with a couple of guys.

sarahmarie2 · March 2014

FI is horrible with electronics. Not the ipad but he is CONSTANTLY on his phone with reddit or stupid games. If its not the phone, its the computer or video games (we have all the consoles because God forbid a game comes out for only one) or all three. It drives me insane that not only is it impossible to have a conversation, but he complains that he works too much and doesn't get enough time with DS and yet when he's home he's glued to a screen.

jwp325 · March 2014

Tablet, phone, computer, he does it all. Drives me nuts. He's a little better since DD was born and does unplug to play with her. He'll put her down in the RNP, go back to playing his games after spending time with her, and then get annoyed or roll his eyes when she fusses. That's my whole day so I have no sympathy.

jblank03 · March 2014

@tarajeannette - To me, that's totally different. When DH is giving LO a bottle, if he's on his tablet, to me that's completely fine, as long as he's paying enough attention to know when the bottle falls out/milk is streaming down baby's face. If someone wastes my liquid gold, there's hell to pay

To me the issue is more when I see soooo much that can be done around the house that either 1. I'm doing or 2. I'm tending to LO so I can't take care of those things, I expect my partner who wanted to have this baby at least as much as I did to help out. Even better, I'd love for him to see the 'opportunities' to get things done around the house like I do. DH does now ask "what can I do?" but sometimes when I say what I'd be doing if I wasn't doing dishes/laundry/pumping/giving a bottle, I get a bit of an eye roll before he'll reluctantly do that thing (sometimes it's also done half-assed which is fun).

cnctf · March 2014

@jblank03 oh I feel ya! I just told S/o that instead of being on his phone/iPad all the time, maybe he can take out the bathroom trash since he can obviously see that it's full. He helps with the burping, bathing, feedings with DD, but there are other things that needs to be done and it would be nice if he did it without me having to tell him. Why are most men so oblivious? Or is it just ignorance?

nikkijd17 · March 2014

jblank03 said:
@tarajeannette - To me, that's totally different. When DH is giving LO a bottle, if he's on his tablet, to me that's completely fine, as long as he's paying enough attention to know when the bottle falls out/milk is streaming down baby's face. If someone wastes my liquid gold, there's hell to pay

To me the issue is more when I see soooo much that can be done around the house that either 1. I'm doing or 2. I'm tending to LO so I can't take care of those things, I expect my partner who wanted to have this baby at least as much as I did to help out. Even better, I'd love for him to see the 'opportunities' to get things done around the house like I do. DH does now ask "what can I do?" but sometimes when I say what I'd be doing if I wasn't doing dishes/laundry/pumping/giving a bottle, I get a bit of an eye roll before he'll reluctantly do that thing (sometimes it's also done half-assed which is fun).

All of this. He just doesn't see what can be done. It's the same syndrome that causes him to not be able to find anything in this house. Boy blinders.

MIT721 · March 2014

tarajeannette said:

Side note: I used to live with guys in college in a big house. I used to get so angry that I was picking up all the slack around the house so one day I decided that I would do nothing at all in the hopes that they would take over. What I didn't anticipate is that their tolerance for living in absolute squalor was far, far higher than mine. That house devolved into a shithole in the span of a couple days. Lol. I have no idea how to get people to help out when they don't want to.

It's stunning how men could live in absolute filth for years on end. When my hubs and I first got together I cleaned his bathroom because I couldn't BEAR to go in there. The next time I went over he was so proud of himself for cleaning the "bathroom" - the toilet and the tub. Mirrors? Counters? Floor? Shower WALLS? Nope.

ashleywiz · March 2014

kiki1978 said:
My DH plays clash of clans on his iPad all the time. He'll be holding the baby playing his game. He takes it into the bathroom with him. I'm close to saying something about it.

Oh. My. Gosh. Are you married to my husband?!! Haha! Same game same everything. Do you hear, "babe, I'm battling?!" More often than not? I thought for sure he would bore of it sooner than later but it's looking like later.

ashleywiz · March 2014

Annnd scratch that, I just realized way too many of us have other halves who play Clash of Clans.... Ugh! I tell him it's just an upgraded version of farm town (which I played way back in 2009) and he gets SO mad Hahah! Ridiculous.

gina0485 · March 2014

kiki1978 said:
My DH plays clash of clans on his iPad all the time. He'll be holding the baby playing his game. He takes it into the bathroom with him. I'm close to saying something about it.

My h is always playing this on his phone! One day a month or so ago I threw his phone across the room into the couch, I was so pissed. He got the memo.

ETA: he flat out refuses to do wireless Wednesday with me for Lent.

kiki1978 · March 2014

ashleywiz said:

My DH plays clash of clans on his iPad all the time. He'll be holding the baby playing his game. He takes it into the bathroom with him. I'm close to saying something about it.
Oh. My. Gosh. Are you married to my husband?!! Haha! Same game same everything. Do you hear, "babe, I'm battling?!" More often than not? I thought for sure he would bore of it sooner than later but it's looking like later.

I don't think my DH is going to get sick of it for a long time. His reasoning for it being okay is that it doesn't take a lot of time to play it. Well, you do check it every 3 minutes, so if you add all those up it's a lot of time!

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