To want to stick his twunting hairdryer up his bottom?

YANBU. I have never heard of anyone drying themselves with a hairdryer. That is very odd and also a waste of electricity. .

Perhaps turn the spare room into a wind tunnel. With harness of course

Also, your house must smell of hot air/ hair for ages afterwards.

I can always smell when a hairdryers been on.

Lol at Alan Bennets Esau

Can I ask which hair dryer does he have ? Sorry but mine cuts out after about twenty minutes on full bollocks (and obviously bad choice of words)

I think you may well have mistakenly married a siberian hamster. How does he react to sunflower seeds?

It is indeed very strange, does he spend time with the kids at all? You should take him on a camping holiday!!!!!!

Am really sorry, but all I can hear in my mind is Alan Bennett intoning, "And Esau was an hairy man."

I have a real planet of the apes vision on your DP in the shower...

ComeWhine I also hate showers because I don't warm up for ages (thus defeating the point of having a 'quick' shower) and would also be upset if cold water got on me.

Does he ever have baths, OP? I think that you're properly warm when you get out of a nice hot bath; I bet he wouldn't need the hairdryer to warm up so much....

I thought my dp was odd because he nearly cries if he has to have a shower (he prefers a bath) but if he is rushing and gets in the shower he puts the plug in and waits for it to fill a bit so his feet stay warm while he showers.

He got out the other day most upset that he had stood on a sponge and cold water went on him.

I don't think I'm going to tell him about hairdryer guy as I think he might try it and like it.

Forgot to mention, there's no way it should take him an hour to dry himself with a hairdryer- it only used to take my ex a couple of minutes to dry his bits. So, if you extrapolate the size of my ex's bits to the size of a whole man- oh sorry, maybe it does take him an hour.

This thread has brought back memories of my decade (in my 20s) spent living in a flat without central heating, where going to bed in the winter was only made bearable by making a tent of the duvet by lying on my back with legs bent, and blasting in hot air with the hairdryer. I did this because I thought that buying a heater would be too expensive in outlay and electricity bills, but I can see in retrospect that I probably spent far more in electricity bills from heating myself with a hairdryer.

Ooh it was such a lovely warm feeling though....bathed in wonderfully hot air until all limbs were tingling. Horrid withdrawal once you turned off the dryer though....the heat is very transient and cools immediately. Maybe that's why he does it for so long OP; as soon as he turns it off, he feels all chilly.

Thinking about it, my teenage years were spent in a house that had underfloor air heating; there were floor vents in every room that would blow out hot air. In the morning, when forced out of bed by my mum, I would scuttle across to the vent and huddle over it with my dressing gown, letting the hot air blow up and warm me. Then I'd get dressed all huddled over like that. I also remember often wearing long skirts so that if I was chilly, I would stand over the vent and have the hot air blow up my skirt. I still wear exclusively long skirts; maybe that's why?

OP, this thread has been a revelation! Your DP was being an inconsiderate git, btw. I hope he's apologised.

But airblades give you old-lady, wrinkly hands. Imagine that on a whole person. Imagine it on a scrotum.

Perhaps Dyson could make him a giant airblade. Think of the time he would save.

14 hours worth of electricity is not very eco friendly. I'd be miffed about the energy bills as well as the rest.

Dh doesn't even own a brush let alone a hairdryer.

The hairdryer thing (14hrs a week, blimey) is weird but the rudeness is not acceptable.

he.is.weird.

and rude!

BUT have you thought to tell him that if he stopped buggering about with his phone whilst drying himself in this ostentatiously self indulgent manner he'd get done in half the time!

TWAT!

But... but... an HOUR? To get dry? When it takes about two and a half minutes with a towel?

He does need help I think. It sounds like a complete compulsion - no normal person would look at the time that process takes and think that that was reasonable or desirable. That's weeks, months of his life wasted. On drying himself veeery, veeery slooowly. That's before you even get to the fact that it has to be with a hairdryer.

Don't even get me started on how I'd feel to have a partner who thought that that was a reasonable way to spend two hours a day when there are children, jobs, housework etc. to be got on with. In that respect, it's utterly selfish and insulting and I wouldn't indulge it.

"The problem is his rudeness....fuck the hairdryer"

Yes, he probably does. Maybe that's why it takes an hour?

FWIW I don't think it's crazy to dry oneself with a hairdryer. But 2 hours a day? And freaking out when access to said hairdryer is restricted? Missing out on family time when he's already out at work for 12hrs? Yeah, that's crazy IMO.

I did snigger at ACT's "As he changes direction like a chicken being basted on a spit" though :o

Take the fuses out of both. Then feign surprise at them both being broken, stick both up his arse, and tell him that if he ever behaves like that to you again, the hairdryers (with the fuses back in) will be joining him in the bath.

have you asked him if he can stop it? Just to see if he can. If he gets very angry, refuses or can't he may have some very weird psychological problem.

It sounds like a compulsion rather than a habit and if he gets angry that he cant do it, that often means he is relying on it for more than simple drying. (like people who say they can give something up if they really wanted but just don't want to)

What if he had to go to hospital? how would he cope? have you ever stayed at someone's house? (i'd be cross if a guests spent 2 hours a day of hairdrying time/electricity).

Hasn't he ever taken the children to the pool/beach?

Carly is right - it can't take him that long to get dry. Our en suite is being refurbished at the moment and we are showeing in the main bathroom. A couple of times I've forgotten to switch my towel into that room and have literally stood in the bath with the shower off for a minute and dried enough to not need a towel really. Granted, that's in summer, but he's doing this right now, in summer, as we speak.

I think it IS strange. It's not about being dry.

Are you happy in this relationship generally chocolateteacup?

Ow, I am hurting from laughing at the image of him doing this. And I consider myself open minded but wholeheartedly agree with those who say it's weird for an adult male to do this. Every single day. It just is.

I'm no scientist, but surely it doesn't take an hour of hairdrying to get someone dry. I've got relatively thick hair (on my head!) which only takes a maximum of 15-20 mins to dry. He's getting some other kind of kick from doing this. I bet your electricity bill is eye watering.

On a serious note, the selfishness and rudeness is definitely not on needs to be tackled. So to speak.