I have the complete inverse experience. I rarely care much about news and politics. I maybe spend 10 minutes a week to browse headlines and keep generally aware

I have the complete inverse experience. I rarely care much about news and politics. I maybe spend 10 minutes a week to browse headlines and keep generally aware of current events. However, about once a year I get sucked into some topic or election or whatever and my consumption goes through the roof. My wife doesn’t care for that stuff at all so we don’t even talk about politics or anything, so she’s unaware that I’ve been dialed in to media but it always happens that after a couple weeks she starts saying “everything ok? You’ve been kind of a jerk/short/angry towards everyone lately”