• Velma@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    Almost like most people are willing to watch things our partners want to show us because we care about them. Hm.

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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      2 days ago

      I don’t like all the videos of “red flag vs green flag” and “AITA” posts my wife shows me.

      She doesn’t like the piano-comedy skits and blacksmithing videos I show her.

      We both watch the videos, and discuss them after watching.

      Crazy how couples work out like that!

      • Panini@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 day ago

        I don’t understand why you’d send them to eachother if you both know the other doesn’t like them. Like, what? I’m happily married and me and my partner send videos specifically because we either think the other would like them or want to make the other groan at a bad joke.

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          15 hours ago

          It’s less that we “send each other videos we know the other doesn’t like” and more “when we’re relaxing and watching videos, we will show each other a funny video or two but eventually neither of us really cares about the videos as much as the other but neither of us dislikes them enough to stop it because it’s not about the videos it’s about spending time with each other”

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      3 days ago

      And you can then have a conversation, with a person you like. I don’t know how to crochet but I know the difference between a single and a double and I can read the recipe.

      • Velma@lemmy.today
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        3 days ago

        Yeah! I love it when my partner shows me his interests. We once got sucked into watching an hour long video on different types of sourdough bread. It was fun!