This seems like such a no-brainer. How can Abby get it SO WRONG?!
LW: "Hey honey, I know you like me hanging out with you in the living room while you watch TV, but I can't write while you do that. I don't mind either hanging out somewhere else to write, or staying in the living room if you wear headphones - which one do you prefer?"
It may then come out that what the husband actually wants is for his spouse to Do The Thing He Wants To Do With Him, since he's rejecting all of LW's compromise solutions - but that's a whole different conversation and if that's his actual issue, he needs to articulate that so they can actually talk about it.
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LW: "Hey honey, I know you like me hanging out with you in the living room while you watch TV, but I can't write while you do that. I don't mind either hanging out somewhere else to write, or staying in the living room if you wear headphones - which one do you prefer?"
It may then come out that what the husband actually wants is for his spouse to Do The Thing He Wants To Do With Him, since he's rejecting all of LW's compromise solutions - but that's a whole different conversation and if that's his actual issue, he needs to articulate that so they can actually talk about it.
Abby is the worst, I swear.