Radio discussion: Is it cheating if you watch a show or movie w/o your mate...

[WoodysGirl]

...if you two had planned to see it together?

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For example, you and your mate planned to see Fast 6, but he or she had to work. Do you still go and not tell her? Or do you wait until her or she can go?

Another example, is you guys are both avidly into the same TV show. Season finale is tomorrow and he or she had another obligation. Do you DVR and watch together later? Or do you watch it by yourself and DVR it for him or her?

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[Ren]

DVR it and watch it together later. Not that i think it's cheating to watch it on my own it's just what i would do

 

[Tabascocat]

DVR and watch it together. As for the movie, I assume mate means partner, not friend. I would not go see it alone, would wait until we could both go.

 

[WoodysGirl]

DVR it and watch it together later. Not that i think it's cheating to watch it on my own it's just what i would do

Well, what made the discussion interesting was that these guys would go see the movie or whatever, not tell their wife/gf/whatever, and then go see it again... The stories they told about watching it on an iPAD while sitting on the toilet in the bathroom was hilarious

DVR and watch it together. As for the movie, I assume mate means partner, not friend. I would not go see it alone, would wait until we could both go.

Yes, I meant partner, significant other, etc. Tried to use space saving words in thread titles. lol

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

It depends.

If the season finale is on say a Monday, and it rolls around to about Wednesday and you just can't get an evening that works for both of you to watch it together, I think it'd be fine to watch it individually.

I also go see movies by myself fairly often. The new Star Trek movie will probably end up being like that. We have weird schedules and it's just hard to work out a time where we can both do it and she actually wants to.

 

[Phoenix]

Hmmm..... has something boiled up in the WG household by chance?

 

[WV Cowboy]

If two had planned to see it together, .. then that is the plan. Stick to it.

It's not cheating, but being partners is about trust, .. if you go behind their back, .. that's not good.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Hmmm..... has something boiled up in the WG household by chance?

Ha! Not even a little bit. It really was a radio discussion on 97.9. And they were discussing some article about this topic and was referring to it. Their scenarios were hilarious.

I watch stuff on DVR alot, so I only get mad when folks watch my shows before I get a chance to watch them first. Other than that, people can watch what they want.

 

[Idgit]

Season finales of shows we watch together, I always wait. But that's because it's more fun for me to watch it with here.

Movies we've planned to see together, I obviously wait.

Movies I know she's going to want to see with me, but where we have no plans, I've done my share of pretending to see for the first time. Most of the time when I do this, though, it's because I took my employees out to see it as a reward for hard work, we played hooky during the workday to do it, and I don't want to reinforce the idea that I'm not always working like a dog when I put in long hours at the office. I don't consider it cheating. And I don't tell her in advance mostly because I know that, if I did, she'd make us go see something else and I don't want to have her miss the movie she really wants to see. That makes me a small hero, right, and not a cheater?

 

[Yeagermeister]

Just wait until bb is available *ducking for cover* :laugh2:

 

[WV Cowboy]

.. I don't want to have her miss the movie she really wants to see. That makes me a small hero, right, and not a cheater?

:laugh2: ... yep!

 

[joseephuss]

If she is planning to see Fast 6 we got bigger problems.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Article where my thread idea came from...

MORE THAN HALF OF COUPLES CONSIDER “CHEATING” AND 28 MILLION U.S. ADULTS HAVE ALREADY CONFESSED

LOS GATOS, Calif. – May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) has unveiled revealing, new information that confirms a sneaking suspicion— more than half (51%) of couples are likely to “cheat”1—but don’t start grilling your significant other or giving them the evil eye just yet.

A recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of Netflix2 revealed 51% of those in a relationship would “cheat” on their spouse/partner/significant other by streaming a TV program(s) they agreed to watch together before their partner had a chance to watch it. More specifically, more than 28 million3 U.S. adults (12%) confessed they had already cheated and 10% admitted they had been “cheated on4.”

It seems as though sometimes that next episode of your favorite series is just too tempting to wait for your partner. Sneaking around with that addictive little show may seem like a minor form of infidelity—but don’t be surprised if it leads to a few slamming doors and a bit of the silent treatment.



Read the rest: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/61735-netflix-survey-more-than-half-of-couples-consider-stream-cheating

 

[WoodysGirl]

Netflix Adultery: The Smallest, Most Insidious Betrayal

• By Maureen O'Connor

Three weeks ago I cheated on my boyfriend. He was perhaps twenty feet away from me, sleeping in my bed with the door open while I betrayed his trust on the living room sofa. At one point, he woke up and walked right by. "You're not watching House of Cards without me, are you?" he asked. "No," I lied without hitting pause. With my ear buds in, you could say Netflix was actually inside of me as my boyfriend returned to bed. I stayed in the living room and kept watching.

A few days later I confessed my crime. “But when?” he asked, at first in disbelief. “Wait, that night you stayed up late? And I asked what you were doing, and you said ‘working’? Mauree-ee-een!” Feebly, I offered to re-watch the episodes. “It won’t be the same,” he said. Overwhelmed with guilt, I lied again: “I only watched two episodes! You can catch up!” I had watched five episodes in one night and finished the season.

We consume TV differently when it’s available instantly. We binge-watch soap operas; we turn serialized dramas into thirteen-hour movies. Streaming a show is intimate: You watch at your own pace, often on a personal computer calibrated for privacy. Sharing that experience, then, is a small act of interpersonal intimacy. But with every new form of intimacy comes a corollary set of betrayals. Netflix adultery may be among the pettiest of modern deceptions, but it is real. It causes rifts and guilt trips. It causes fights.


Read the rest: http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/03/netflix-adultery-a-small-insidious-betrayal.html