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Input:  We sat down to watch a movie and I pulled out my knitting. About twenty minutes into the movie, my boyfriend paused it and asked me to stop. I asked him if it was too noisy, and said I could switch to a different kind of needle so it wouldn't click. He said no, but said it was rude to knit when we are supposed to be watching a moving together, and to please pay attention. I said that I am, but I just like to have something to do with my hands while I'm watching something. He said he would prefer I pay full attention and to please put down the knitting. I said no, I'd really prefer to be able to knit, that I'm not distracted, I am fully capable of doing both at once, and that I do it all the time.   


He got very annoyed and told me I was being rude and disrespectful, and if I didn't put it away, we would stop watching. I had a feeling this would ruin the whole weekend so I just put down my knitting, he said thank you, and we continued. Halfway into the movie, he picked up his phone and started doing something. I paused the movie and asked him why it was okay for him to do that but I couldn't knit? He got annoyed and slammed down his phone. We finished the movie and he stomped off to play video games. I turned on the tv show I've been going through (Awkward.) and continued knitting.   


The next day, he told me that he thinks it's rude to knit through a movie and through TV shows, and that it makes me come across like I have ADHD and am a toddler who can't sit still. I explained that I've always done things like this. When I was a kid, my parents would draw or color with us while we watched TV. When I learned to sew, I'd watch Arthur and sew. When I picked up knitting, I would watch TV, or read, or even take walks with my mom if it was portable. I always feel better if I'm making something instead of just sitting there. 

But I also listen to music and run. Or listen to audiobooks while I'm at work. I love multitasking. I love media and I love to be productive and I love being creative. Perfect, right?

He told me it was rude and that when we do something, to please put 100% of my focus into it instead of paying attention to my knitting. I told him that if that's really an expectation he has, I didn't think this relationship would have a long future, because I am not going to just sit there and watch TV and do nothing else.  I explained that I find it very boring and lazy to just sit there and watch TV, and while I get how other people find joy in just doing nothing, I don't. 

For the record, I asked if he felt like I was ignoring him, or not paying enough attention to him, etc, but he said that isn't the issue, just that I should be more respectful when I am watching TV or Movies because the creators work very hard and it's insulting that I won't pay full attention.

So am I the asshole here?

knitting when I watch movies or tv shows? my bf thinks so