How do people watch TV together anymore?
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My S.O. and I prefer watching completely different contents. I often watch YT tech reviews, she makes a disgusted/throwing up face if she finds me watching any of those. I like documentaries, cricket, Football, YT motivational videos, Netflix stand ups/thrillers. She likes Indian Idol, some awful regional content in Disney+ Hotstar, YT cooking videos, Netflix/Disney+ fantasies/romantic comedies. Both of us have been using our individual Realme Tab which has a 2k display as our individual "TV"s until now for the last 2 years. The tab is portable and we literally take our individual tabs with us with many downloaded contents from Netflix etc when we travel. Just bought a cheap ass TV as we were forced to switch to Jio Fiber for some reason and Live TV and 16 OTT app subscriptions is included with it by paying 200 INR per month in addition to charges for an internet connection.
I do not even know how people sit together and watch TV with such disparate preferences as ours. I do not even recall when we sat together and watched something that we both enjoyed, except some random Friends/Seinfeld episodes and some newly released Hindi movies on OTT like Andhadhun (that was a long time back).
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Forget about Interests...
Almost every content has little bit of adult scenes or language.
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus..
It's the wiring problem 
Significant other. Saying it that way hides my own gender, sexual orientation and marital status and it's an accepted way of saying it in the US and other countries.
So i can be a homosexual female living in with my partner or a straight male married for 8 years, saying significant other instead of wife, husband, spouse etc covers the entire spectrum.
And ideally, instead of using "she" pronoun for my partner, i should have used "they" and it will be the most politically right way to write the opening comment.
Sometimes she watches what I watch without much interest and sometimes I do the same. Overtime she got interest in my likings and I get to make funny comments during her shows.
It’s the silent pact when we got married to stay together even during torturous times 🤪
Try it occasionally to take more interest in her rubbish shows and make some genius comments, you will see the table turning around. Life will be more fun.
We tried a long time back.
She literally watches a show named "Dust particle" (translated) on Hotstar. It's running for 5-6 years if not longer. In these shows, a guy is married to at least 3 to 4 different women without any divorce besides having side chicks and affairs. When some of the actors get a better offer in films or get bored and leave, they suddenly die offscreen in the series or goes missing or get into an accident that requires plastic surgery and full healing happens within a few episodes and the face voice height mannerism of the actor changes completely. And she watches 4-5 of these awful series. Never daily though. She lets 8-10 episodes pile up first for each series. Then she binges through the piled up episodes in one go skipping through parts, jumping ahead and back, dragging the progress bar back and forth etc.
One of the other shows she watches in Sony LIV which is the Season 2 of some show that ran for 25 years or so and then got over when the actors got so old and fat in real life that no one wanted to watch them anymore. They resurrected the show with Rahul Vaidya's wife and hyped it like anything during IPL and was launched around that time.
The shows she watches are completely unwatchable and she really doesn't want me to watch those with her either. I make snarky comments which she detests.
We tried watching things together and moved on a long time back. Now we watch things we like and then recommend things to each other which we believe the other person may enjoy.
Recently got married. She watches whatever I like sometimes even though she doesn't enjoy it many times and I watch whatever she's watching to make snarky comments in moderation. But mostly I'm watching on the phone or pc and she's watching on the phone or tv. Mom owns the tv after she comes from work.
Therapy