I think it depends on how present you are to each other. Sometimes Joe and I read in bed like that, and he enjoys it. Sometimes he gets upset, because I fall into the book and don't come out... or he is disappointed afterwards because I wasn't being as social as he wanted me to be.
So, I think the reading thing can be rude, but it can also be a comfortable way to relate... it doesn't depend so much on what people are doing, but how they are doing it.
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Date: 2007-11-12 02:06 pm (UTC)I think it depends on how present you are to each other. Sometimes Joe and I read in bed like that, and he enjoys it. Sometimes he gets upset, because I fall into the book and don't come out... or he is disappointed afterwards because I wasn't being as social as he wanted me to be.
So, I think the reading thing can be rude, but it can also be a comfortable way to relate... it doesn't depend so much on what people are doing, but how they are doing it.
Kiralee