Falling asleep during movies

I'm not looking for a solution here, just an understanding. H consistently falls asleep during movies, rented or at the theater. Fine, he's sleepy, his problem, not looking to change that. But when I say consistently, I mean he has stayed awake during maybe two movies in almost 20 years. So there is no denying his behavior. My problem is that he snores, so when he falls asleep, he snores during the movie. I find it distracting, as I suspect the other people in the theater do. Because of this, I do not enjoy watching movies together. Besides that, if he happens to wake up before the movie is over, he expects to be able to ask a half-dozen questions to catch-up to the story line, which I also find very distracting. My simple solution is to not watch movies with him. H has an issue with this. He says he wants to "watch the movie with me." Er.... he's not watching, he's sleeping. Promises repeatedly that he'll "stay awake this time," never does. What am I missing? What is the value to him? He's asleep so he wouldn't know if I was there or not (and yes, I have gotten up and left.) I enjoy watching movies with friends, but there's actually something "shared" -- either a shared look/laugh over something very funny, security if the movie is scary, a discussion afterwards, etc. That's hard to do if the person is asleep. Is this a guy thing? A control thing? Something else? ETA: Not looking to solve the mystery of why he falls asleep, but why he NEEDS to sleep through movies with me, why it would be a problem to him for me to say I don't want to watch movies with him because of it.

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