April 10, 2024: My Wife, Netflix（妻、ネットフリックス）

It has been about a month or more since my wife was addicted to Netflix, a VOD service. One of its original drama series ‘Dynasty’ has caught her heart, and she has not been able to stop it. It has so many episodes that she has spent most of her weekends watching the drama. She has even watched it on weekdays. She should be busy with her housework but has never gone to bed without watching the drama. She has even made sure to watch one or two episodes on weekdays. So she has recently gone to bed very late. And she has sometimes told me that she watched the drama for so long that she had a headache. So, I cut back on the TV, enabling her to begin to watch the drama and go to bed earlier than before. But that did not work as expected. She began to watch it earlier but has never gone to bed earlier than before. She has watched the drama for a longer time than before. She will never stop watching the drama unless she finishes watching the last one. The headache is not a serious problem for her. Far from it, the drama seems to give more energy to her.
As long as she is in good shape, I do not mind her doing whatever she likes to. But I have sometimes become worried about her condition when I am told that she has something wrong with her body, as I mentioned above. Overall, she has been in good shape but annoyed with the pain in her arm and hand. When she uses neither of them, the pain does not come out, but it always comes out when she uses them. So, she has tried not to use them as much as possible. As a result, she lost strength in the parts and failed to hold heavy items. Therefore, I should help her and do housework on her behalf as much as possible. But I cannot do all the housework because of my lack of experience and of my physical condition. But I am now trying to do what I can as much as possible, which I hope helps her a little. In any case, she has to keep in good shape and energise me, no matter what happens. She is my purpose in life.

　妻がNetflixにハマってから1カ月余り。Netflixのドラマ「Dynasty」にはまり、止められなくなりました。話数が多いので、週末はほとんどこのドラマを観ています。 平日も見ます。家事で忙しいはずですが、ドラマを見ずに寝たことはありません。平日も1話か2話は必ず見ています。そのため、最近は寝る時間が遅くなっています。また、時々、「ドラマを見過ぎて頭が痛い」ということもあります。　そのため、ボクはテレビを見る時間をを控え、妻ができるだけ早くドラマを見初めて、早く眠れるようにしました。でも、思ったようにはいきませんでした。妻のドラマを見る時間は以前より増えただけでした。最終話を見終えるまでは、止めそうにありません。頭痛も大した問題ではないようです。それどころか、ドラマで元気をもらっているようです。
　妻が元気なうちは、何をやっても気にしません。でも、前述のように、体の一部がおかしいと言われると、体調が心配になることがあります。全体的に調子はいいのですが、腕と手の痛みに悩まされています。どちらも使わないときは痛みはないのですが、使うと必ず痛みが出ます。そのため、なるべく使わないようにしてきたのですが、その結果、その部分の筋力が衰え、重いものを持つことができなくなってしまいました。このため、ボクが妻を助け、できるだけ家事をしてあげなければならないことは分かっています。でも家事の経験不足と体調の問題で、すべての家事をこなすことはできません。そこで、少しでも助けになればと思い、今はできる限りのことをしています。いずれにせよ、どんなことがあっても妻には体調を維持し、ボクに元気をくれないと困ります。ボクの生きがいなのですから。