Watching the tv and trying to have a conversation.

No. I would never try to compete with at.v.If he is watching the t.v.,then I don't even try to talk to him.I am the same way.G-d help him if he wants to talk to me when hockey is on.he could set me on fire and I wouldn't notice.

Happens all the time. Try being NOT THERE a few times. And, write down what you want to say and put the notation where he can find it. You have to be like a little mouse and be out of site. Try it.

This is a really good discussion because it is something that happens to me all the time, my wife has a bad habit of zoning out when she is watching television,so I will be sitting there trying to talk to her without her even listening,which gets annoying sometimes and then later she will be like why did you not tell me which sometimes leads to arguments,even though she is trying to pay more attention to me,especially when I tell her I want to talk to her,I also have a brother who zones out when watching television and I have to say things like his hair is on fire to get him to answer me,and that does not always work lol.

My husband is like that when the football is on no matter who is playing.He says yes and no.Or gets annoyed and tells me to be quite.So I give up telling him anything or wait till half time to get a word in.Other than that he is lovely.

Well that is why you never chose to talk to someone about something important when they are distracted. You must make a point to set time aside to talk about important things.

My ex-husband used to do that all the time. One time when I was talking about something important and noticed that he wasn't paying attention I started saying something like "I'm planning on going downtown today and not wearing any clothes. I'll be going to the main street in town and will greet everyone I see." He just said, "uh, huh". I then yelled at him and told him what I'd just said. It didn't do any good. So I quit trying to talk to him when he was concentrating on something he liked.

I have and it is pointless. My son and my husband are the same way. I can't even talk to them during commercials. It is like they are spell bound.

sounds like my hubby he is either staring at his t.v. or the computer an then while talking to him he wil go aahhh huh then a few days later he wants to know why we dont talk more I tell hinm to get rid of the tv an his computer an notice I said his computer then we can talk

No, I am the one who has her head in the clouds, whether it be whilst watching t.v., or making money. My husband gets a bit irritated at me when I tell him too "shhh", though I also tell him to IM me what he wants to tell me. I know it's a bad habit that I really must get out of, it's better to talk face to face so as to have everything cleared up, etc.

Hey jugs! That's my boyfriend! I try to talk to him, but when he is watching tv he is in a transe! He has no idea what I am saying to him! Even if a commercial is on he is still not going to pay any attention to me! If I want or need to talk to him I have to grab the remote control and turn the tv off to so that I can get him to listen to me! And it is really annoying! And then he still doesn't remember what I said to him!

my other half never remembers when i tell him something important,not coz he's watching tv but normally just coz he isn't listening

It is hard to have a conversation when the TV is on so we watch the TV and then when the commercials come on we mute it. Then we talk about things that happen that day when the program comes back on we unmute and wait for the next commercial.

Well, it happens to me too, but not while watching some TV, but while he was playing games on the internet. He could actually pause for a while and listened to what I have to say about something important, and yes, a few hours or days later, he would ask me why I never told him or something. Sometimes, he would just be quiet after that, but other times, it's as if it would always be my fault when I said that I did tell him, as I should have reminded him again as he could forget. He should pay attention in the first place otherwise he would remember if it's really important to him!

Hi Jugjugs My husband does this all the time, I will tell him something and even check "did you get that?" the usual response is yeah yeah I got it. Then when I refer to the conversation again either later that day or another day he can't recall a word of it. He struggles to multi task so if he is watching tv or on his laptop he will not take in what I am saying! I call it selective hearing because if its something beneficial to him or something he really enjoys doing he will always here that!

I know I can't concentrate with the TV on, and if I am going to talk to someone, the TV has to be at least muted.

I don't have a partner, but I experienced this from my brother. My brother is so hard headed. When we are telling him something his eyes are on the television, although I believe he is listening but he pretends to not listen. And if you will ask him what did you told him he forgets already or pretending again. Those person is a waste of time. You can turn off the television and make him listen to you, that is what I do to my brother.

hi jugsjugs oh yes my husband used to be like that bound up in some stupid sitcom.when I told him our bank account was low, it was "yeah,yeah,dont worry. Let me hear this." four days later he came back in after having been downtown,and snapped,why didn't you tell me our account was low? I wanted to draw out a hundred dollars but the teller said you only have fifty." Well sorry bub but I did tell you, and you said, yeah, yeah don't worry about it. He turned red and for a few days he really did try to listen to me when I had something important to tell him.

When I was married (the last time teehee)he and I had some of our major fights because of just that. I would tell him something important that was coming up and he would act like he had taken it in and then when it came down he was totally not in recognition or rememberence of any of it. I would get so upset. But when the reverse happened the roof would come off the house!

I have experience that too. That is why I would talk to my husband important things during the time he is not in front of the television. For when he is watching TV his mind is more focus on what he is watching. Sometimes could not even hear you when you call him.LOL

This goes on all the time. My husband and I will watch tv and then I will remember something important that I need to tell him. I go ahead and tell him and he gives me a sign that he has heard me. A few days later I will remind him to do something that he has promised me he would do then he says you never told me to do that. Then he gets mad at me because it was never done.