Husband says this isn't laziness but I say it is

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I can understand others would consider laziness as not doing anything productive.
But I consider myself lazy when I'm stuck in an activity and know I'm supposed to be doing something else. The fact that I'm not exerting the required effort to move from one activity to the next makes it a form of laziness, I think.

But then I'm confused as to whether it's actually possible to break out of this 'inertia' - and if it's not actually possible would it still classify as 'laziness'? idk.

Sometimes if I am out walking for a long time I wonder when I will turn around to head in the direction of home. I don't know what it is that makes me finally turn around.
The scariest time was when I went swimming in the ocean by myself. I kept swimming and swimming further and further away from the shore. I couldn't seem to make myself stop to turn around. Fortunately, obviously, eventually I did. But it seemed to be a matter of luck that my brain became 'unstuck' when it did. I could have just kept swimming until I exhausted myself.

I'd call that inertia rather than laziness.
If you need to get to bed, maybe you coul set an alarm, or asking your husband if he would set an alarm, to break your focus on your interest so that you can break away from it and get to bed; would that help?

What's so wrong with laziness anyway? It seems to be mostly used as a pejorative term, as if anybody who doesn't work their butt off has got something wrong with them.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/
I think we can afford to be a little more gentle with ourselves.

transition. I hate them.