Your logic doesn't apply to her, because it is how YOU think....not necessarily how SHE thinks. You have control over certain elements that surround the two of you when you ML. If the tv is on....and it's been proven a distraction, turn it off. Just because it doesn't distract you...doesn't mean it won't distract her. That is EXACTLY why our tv goes off if we start messing around any....it's always a distraction to my H. So I simply turn off that distraction.
I guess the way I see this one is well...Andy, you shot yourself in the foot. Things were going well, you were in fact getting to do things you wanted to do....and you got your feelings hurt because she was paying attention to the tv....when well, you could have avoided those hurt feelings probably by something as simple as hitting a remote control button. See what I'm saying? YOU WERE getting to do things you enjoy....yet YOU let something stop the fun.