What is a bedroom for, anyway?

[The Nid Hog]

House rules at my house are one TV in the whole place and it's in a common area where everybody has access to it. If somebody wants to watch something, they have to negotiate it with everybody else.

Hulu, etc. has opened that up a bit. My college age daughter can sneak off to her room and watch something on her laptop. However, that doesn't really happen much. If somebody is going to watch TV, they do it in the common space.

As far as multitasking in the bedroom, I'll read in bed but I won't work there if I can avoid it.

 

[Go West Young Man]

I had a TV in every room as a single guy, but when my then-girlfriend/now-wife got our first place together the bedroom TV didn't make the cut. I missed it for a while, then I realized that it was keeping me up an extra 30 or 45 minutes every evening and I sleep a lot better now without it.

When I travel for work, I'll have the TV on in the hotel room and I've noticed there too that just having it on keeps me awake a lot longer than I would be otherwise.

 

[Mr. Imperial]

Thanks for the advice. I think I will get my hubby a huge plasma for the bedroom

Now that is just plain evil.

 

[professorchaos]

No TV in the Bedroom.
Period.
The Bedroom is a sanctuary, and you need to recapture that ideal.
There is no sound logical reason that would justify a TV in the Bedroom.

Couldn't agree more. No TV in the bedroom.

 

[Blondie]

Not much point in believing something if you're not willing to strongly stand by it, eh?

You do mean in a personal way, right? I mean you don't have a really strong belief that others should not have a TV in their bedroom, right?

My wife and I have a TV in our bedroom. It is practical. We hardly ever watch TV together in there (meaning when we retire for the night, the TV is never on) but it does come in handy on a cold night when we want to cuddle up and watch a good movie.

Essentially, we don't live in a mansion so there are only two rooms in our dwelling that have a TV. Therefore, if my wife wants to watch novelas or lame reality shows, there's another TV available for me to use.

Ahhh, Novelas. Is it safe to assume your wife is latin? My fiance is, and that's what she calls them as well.

i've also got better things to do that shag 7 nights a week for 4 hours a night.

Man, it really does suck to get old

Actually, it doesn't suck as much as you think. Quality can replace quantity, and you can still get your projects done.

If that is all you think goes on in a bedroom you need to reanalyze some things.

Yeah, from this post some people even watch TV in the bedroom.

"Couples who keep a TV in the bedroom have sex half as often as those who don't"

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/199/199196_tvs_a_bedroom_turnoff_.html

Unless they are watching porn. Or making porn. Cuz you see, in either case, you need the TV.

 

[WhosYerBob]

What say you gentlemen? Does a TV belong in the bedroom?

Nope. Period.

I noticed the same thing as you with my wife when she insisted that a TV be moved into the bedroom. It took almost 15 years for that damn thing to die - and I won't let another into the bedroom.

 

[sol92258]

One side of me says "no way, the bedroom is not an appropriate place for a TV...or computer", and in an ideal situation, that would be a rule.

But as already mentioned, when together time is far too infrequent, a TV in the bedroom can work. Watching movies together, and not having to deal with getting up afterwards, just keep together uninterrupted.

Pros and cons both ways, I'm torn between the two, but at the moment the TV stays, though it's hardly used.

 

[auk1124]

For those men with a tv in the bedroom, whatever you do, under no circumstances should you and your wife / gf be in the middle of a serious conversation when HBO decides to air a "documentary" about a pr0n star with enormous gazongas who just coincidentally happened to be nekkid when they interviewed her.

It will do your relationship no good, trust me on that one.

 

[ogopogo]

Been watching those Katie Morgan HBO specials, have you?

 

[auk1124]

Been watching those Katie Morgan HBO specials, have you?

I know no names, only certain... physical features.

 

[ogopogo]

 

[FLTiger]

Yeah, there's a TV in our bedroom. The TV in the living room is often used for Spongebob Squarepants, Wii, and PS2 activities, so I watch all of my sports and news in the bedroom. Well--most of my sports. The Superbowl and Auburn Tigers football games are watched in the living room, and the kids just have to cope with it.

 

[luvmysuper]

You do mean in a personal way, right? I mean you don't have a really strong belief that others should not have a TV in their bedroom, right?

Why of course! You do what you like. It's your house, and until someone else starts paying your mortgage, they don't really get to make any decisions about what you do in there.

 

[Defend Tacoma]

Thank you all for your thoughtful posts! I didn't tally the votes, but it appears that the general consensus would be no TV in the bedroom.

I think I agree, as it is easy for it to become a backdrop for all bedroom interactions, siphoning attention from you and your mate. That's the sticky one for me. I confess it is nice to be able to snuggle up and watch movies, the adult variety included. The TV will stay for now, but this thread did help, as it began a dialog about the situation between my girl and I.

Happy shaves!
-J

 

[danparker77]

We have a tv in the bedroom, I am just lucky I got my wife eating dinner in the kitchen and not in the living room in front of the tv that was a 4 year battle. Now she can't imagine eating in there.

 

[E.Young]

I had a TV in my bedroom as a kid growing up, When I moved out I did not have a TV in the bedroom just a radio that would shut itself off after an hour. Then I got married and SWMBO decided to move a TV into the bedroom. I go to sleep and she stays up and argues with the TV
At least she is not arguing with me!
IMHO I don't care for the TV in the bedroom and would be just as happy with out it there but if it make SWMBO happy then she can keep it there.

 

[riooso]

who said, just because you have a tv in your bedroom, you do not reflect with the wife about your day, talk or have relations? i know i'm only 37, but geeze, i've also got better things to do that shag 7 nights a week for 4 hours a night.

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Richard