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Input: Throwaway account for obvious reasons, and a heads up that the situation is a little weird.

Long story short, I’m living with two women I’ve known my whole life, they’re married, and I’m dating both of them. Everyone knows, there’s no secrets, no cheating, none of that. 

But before we became a triangle, they would basically have weekly date nights where they’d go to the movies. They’d see literally everything. I see less movies these days, mostly because I feel like I’m turning into a bit of a snob, or maybe I’m just less willing to put my money into movies I just know I’m not into.

The exception is animated movies. I see basically all of them, and even if I know they’re bad (less than 30 on Rotten Tomatoes bad), I might see it if I’m bored and they aren’t interested.

How to Train Your Dragon just came out, and I’ve been on a new work schedule for a few months now. I work seven days, 12 hour shifts, then I’m off seven days. Naturally it makes seeing movies that come out on the week I work difficult, so there’s a bit of a wait on some of them. I told them they could see HOTYD without me, then a few hours later after really giving it some thought, I said I’d rather they wait. It’d only be a 4-5 day wait, but they went and saw it.

Of course we can always see it again since they liked it enough that they’d be willing to, but for whatever reason I’ve always preferred to see movies I know I want to see with them for the first time for all of us. It’s caused issues in the past, and they know I’m upset about it now, and one of them told me ‘You always get angry about this kind of thing, and we feel like we’re not allowed to see a movie without your permission.’

I know I’m at least partially the asshole, at least because I attempted to rescind the permission to see the movie but if they know it bothers me because this has happened before shouldn’t they be able to  see that maybe if they’re doing something that upsets me that maybe they should stop doing it? I’m not trying to control the movies they see, but for the movies all of us want to see that they know are a must see for me, is it too much of me to ask them to wait a few days?

getting Upset about Movie / Date Night Issues