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Great so we’re in agreement. I also don’t like wasting time with my husband, we strive to learn together or work on meaningful projects or mitzvos. If that was your point you could have just quoted pirkei avos, “Al tarbe sicha im haisha bishto… Kal vchomer beishes chavero.”

And of course with a marriage there needs to be time spent enjoying the relationship but that’s a mitzva not wasting time.

Same with friends. If you play a game to relax so that afterwards you have more energy and mental space to learn or do mitzvos, it’s great.

If your waste time just to waste time that’s problematic.

But you could have just said that.