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are you ladies able to watch sports with your spouse and enjoy the experience? What I mean is your able to show your emotional reactions to the game good or bad?

I find this is not possible for the most part with mine....it's fine for him to voice his reaction to what a player did or didn't do but I am not allowed to do this when I am feeling it. I am told to get out of the room and stop saying anything.

I notice he doesn't do this with others....our kids....relatives or whoever. It seems to be a reaction to me having something to say about the game....or a bad call/play whatever I may be thinking.

For me part of the enjoyment of watching sports is the interaction with the other people I am watching the games with. They have their take....I have mine....or we agree who knows...it's just part of what people do I thought. Take Thanksgiving holiday...lot's of families will put on football and be with lot's of relatives....eating, talking and watching the game....people will be saying all kinds of things about the teams and so on. My spouse doesn't seem upset with them and never orders them out of the room or to "shut up"...cause he doesn't agree with their take on it....it's also not his house but he wouldn't do that if it was.

And no this isn't something new to us...seems to always have been this way from the beginning. If I say nothing or we are winning and we both say YAH! to a home run or a touch down then it's fine....if it's not going well and I say what's going on with joe blow...or what about this or that I am told to leave. Now he can go on and on about a player and how awful he is doing and so on....but not me. I never tell him to stop saying anything or leave the room...I may disagree and say I don't see it that way but I am not disrespectful.

Sorry this got long I think you all are getting my point....I just wish there were things I could enjoy doing with my spouse and let myself react to the game as I feel it and experience it. Instead I have to be as quite as possible or leave the room....I am not looking forward to the ball game this evening due to this happening yet again the other night....I want him to sit in another room away from me so I can call out what I want when I want...basically enjoy myself or I dont even want to watch....I'll watch QVC or news instead and forget it.

Any other ladies stuck with someone like this and how do you handle it??