HGTV may just be responsible for as many divorces as the internet. HGTV has caused North American home owners to be in a constant state of motion, tasks, planning and work.
Weekends are no longer about harmonious family relations. The “new” weekend is about getting up early on Saturday morning, rushing to Home Depot or Rona, buying “stuff” and spending the rest of the weekend installing it. (Don't beleive me? Head down to Home Depot on a saturday and look around at all the depressed husbands, pretending to look interested and eager.)
Anybody that watches HGTV will never actually complete, or enjoy, their home. Enjoying the home is simply not possible, because you have to constantly be tearing it apart and changing it.
Frustrated husbands, who are not carpenters, electricians, plumbers or drywallers, are expected to tear down their home at the foundation and rebuild it in less than a half an hour. (just like the show)
Men that don’t know a wrench from a hammer are expected to build a glass wall sitting room, because the guy on the show said it was “easy”. When men try to explain that they don’t actually know how, their wife gets mad and accuses them of being lazy, or not wanting their house to look like the one on TV.
Well, no actually ladies..it’s because sometimes we just don’t have a clue how to do the actual renovation.
This constant state of renovation that modern society is in, is not good for relationships. When your husband starts to look forward to Monday mornings more than Friday afternoons, you better start to watch something other than HGTV.
Or you might be watching the TV all alone.
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