Girl I'm dating sometimes watches TV for an entire day... Struggling to accept this...

How do you know the exact amount of hours she spent watching tv? Where you there with her?

Anyways, I think it's your fault. Maybe you are too boring for her so he needs TV to have fun?

Suggest something fun to do together instead of watching tv the whole day... like running or having s e x

No need to read these replies. OP get the hell out. Find a girl that doesn’t own a TV. Everyone has smart phones, so 1 addiction is enough. Those girls get fat once age 25 hits

Ha!
Almost funny... but NOT.

Trying to compare 1 hour of running vs 8 hours of TV?

Also, benefits of watching tv = 0
benefits of running, even only 1 hour a day = a lot

how about just trying to change her tastes? i wouldn't mind someone watching these many films back to back but it depends entirely on what sort of films. like, i would be up for some malick or lav diaz marathons....bot harry potter? absolutely not. this indicates an infantilized mind.

Take a hint, she’s not interested in you.

My wife, who I love, likes many crafty things that I would find mind numbing. I, on the other hand, love working alone in my office on things she couldn’t care less about. We still find much to do together, are very good at teaming up on chores, have a healthy intimate life, and like spending time together. If it works, it works. If not, then that is OK, too. But I would not analyze too much.

When we met, I was training for marathons, and she hadn’t run a step outside of gym class.

Accept her for how she is and don't expect anything different. If it's bothering you now imagine how it's going to spill over to you having a short fuse on other things a year from now. You are learning how she is and can accept it or let her know it's not going to work out. I had the same dilemma and three months was all I could take. I had to move on.

I assume you're young because you refer to her as a "girl." If you're older, gross.

Anyway, if you're young and virile, you should be plowing her all day long. This is on you as well.

Best friend

Good for you recognizing that you have a problem. She's obviously an introvert and not hurting anyone yet you find yourself irrationally annoyed at how another person lives her life, and you're worried if this is misogyny that will sabotage your future relationships. It's a good time to question the values you grew up with. Also identify which of your values are really developments of your body - a young healthy male will more likely than need to exercise, take physical risks, and show off. Bottom line is that if you break up with her then you won't have a problem anymore.

tbh you should ask her if she's depressed and see if she's okay...that's a good way to check up on her mental health in case she actually is depressed, and lightly encourage her to stop watching so much tv in a way that seems you like care about her (which I'm sure you do, honestly).

She's just gotten old prematurely. All the people I know over 50 put the TV on as soon as they get home, or as soon as they wake up on weekends, and the TV is just kind of on all day. Sometimes they watch it, sometimes its just blaring in the background, but my God, it's always on. My sister-in-law once complained about the TV being on when everyone in the room was reading or playing games on their phone instead, and my father-in-law picked up the remote and... turned it off? No, he just changed the channel. It'll happen to all of us once we stop being active. Your girlfriend just reached that point sooner than.... well, sooner than most people who would post on this forum, anyway. Hard to say with modern culture whether she or you are the "weird" one.

Is she cute? Overweight In shape? Not everyone is a match. Some people male and female watch TV all the time, some of the time etc. What do you do together? Go to movies, sporting events, concerts etc?

If it bugs you that much, it sounds like you're incompatible. Move on.

She sounds chill. Can I date her?

Maybe OP meant to say he’s struggling with the fact that its a girl… and the TV watching was never the question, just extra details to prove it wasn’t a made-up scenario

Why should I leave? How do you know?

I do not spend more than 1hr on here in a day. Usually it's far less than 1hr.

It's not even so much that it's boring, which it is. It's that it's total inactivity. She IS overweight, and she doesn't really exercise much at all. I wouldn't say she's "fat," but I would feel better about her health and what she will look like 10 years from now if she was more active. Asking someone to exercise 30min per day and watch 3.5hrs of TV/day instead of 4 solid hours of TV and no exercise doesn't seem like setting the bar very high to me, and the fact she didn't even leave the house on a Saturday and instead chose to watch TV for ~10 hours is kind of alarming to me tbh. I am a very active person, but being outside and getting sunshine is also pretty strongly correlated with good mental health, and the relationship seems to be causal. Someone who can't get of the couch and take a 20min walk outside or something without someone forcing them too seems very unattractive to me... But apparently most people here think it's normal? Was not expecting that from a running forum.