It’s a puzzle how my wife and I can be different in so many ways and yet be so happily married. Maybe it’s because we’re similar in a few really significant ways — like how we view the world and what we believe it takes to make a relationship work — and different in lots of less important ways, like what foods and movies we like, or the fact that Jennifer can work while she watches TV. I can barely chew gum while I watch TV.
One of the differences that amazes me is that Jennifer can watch the same TV episodes over and over. If it’s a show she enjoys — Star Trek: The Original Series, say, or JAG — she’ll happily watch reruns of episodes she’s seen countless times before. (Again, unlike me, she’s usually also doing something else, so watching a show she’s seen before means that if she gets distracted by what she’s working on and misses a few minutes of what’s happening on screen, it doesn’t matter.) Meanwhile, I pore over the TV listings looking for something I’ve never seen before.
To each their own.