DH is eating cereal and I want to kill him

I just had the most horrid experience. Someone was eating really moist banana nut bread and the sound was horrible. It sounded like they had to keep forcing their jaws apart, and it made the most annoying noise.

Then it dawned on me that it was me eating it. Oh Lawd!😬😳

I think DP has been reading this thread and seen my comment! We've just eaten toast in the same room (unusual), sitting on the same settee (unheard of) and there was no chomping, inhaling, open-mouth crunching or clicking jaw! There's hope for the man who sounds like he's eating concrete instead of soup!

Wow so many of us. I'd assumed mine was a sensory/neurodiverse thing. But maybe it's more of us than that?

Certainly my parents used to get so cross with me for flinching or getting upset.

At least now with my daughter struggling too I get it!

Mine gets personally offended that I can’t stay in the room and listen to him eat a digestive biscuit or a cucumber stick

I can’t even read the thread,I can’t abide that sound…I can’t be present with certain people eating…it triggers my worst self.i find it so rude and bad manners to eat loudly.it’s disgusting.

I have joked with mine that he'd be perfect but for his insistence on breathing 😂

It's the crisp eating. He manages to crinkle up the bag each time he puts his hand in it and then the mindless crunch crunch crunch. Drives me bloody insane.

We do actually need a new patio. And I like the sound of the MN meet up...hmmm...🤔😉

OMG! My DH is sitting 3 feet from me, eating a salad. "Crunch, crunch, crunch..scrape, scrape, scrape..." Like fingernails on a chalkboard!

I am chanting...."this wasn't in the vows, this wasn't in the vows. I hate to garden, I hate to garden."

Whew, he is done. For now. He lives another day to annoy me another way. Bless him.

All that is left is the strong smell of vinegar. Luckily, I like that smell (our DS does not).

This usually happens when you're feeling agitated already or up tense

Well, of course we are!

"I am woman, hear me snore,
decibels too high to ignore,
But he knows me well,
and so he still pretends...."

Someone can do the rest of the verse and add on. 😆

Mine too! I was laughing so hard there for a minute, I couldn't get my breath. My DH came into the room and I informed him that he must have been cloned, and his clones have married women across the US and Europe.

It's really the worst when he is eating salad. I try SO hard not to let it bother me. After all, it's been happening for 46+ years. But, it's only really bothered me to death since I hit 45 a few decades ago. I just cringe and try to hold my tongue as often as possible (not often enough, according to him). He chews SO loudly and the metal fork against the glass plate.....! I am sure I could hear it in the next town over.

Oh God yes this as well. Just wash your hands like a normal person!!!!

No way!! I thought it was just mine that did that!! (Plus his dad). Absolutely drives me potty.

I'll add to the mix the EXTREMELY loud breathing through his nose while he eats. I can't hear anyone else breathing, because they're girls. He's there breathing in and out of his nose noisily like he's doing some kind of extreme yoga 😡😡

Isn't that how it's supposed to be eaten? There's another way? No wonder a box of cereal lasts two years in this house.....😆😉

THIS!!!! It drives me mad that I have to listen to DH munching on his (too hot) porridge and slurping his stinky coffee in bed while I’m in the bedroom trying to get ready for work - I literally want to scream!!!! How do we stop this !!!????

Same! Whoever does it, doesn’t have to be DH 🤣😂

This is why I stopped serving soup. DH could slurp a hardboiled egg.

No, talking with mouth full is a normal thing to find irritating, and something you're supposed to learn not to do as a young child. You are perfectly justified with this.

I feel ya ! My husband too has terrible eating habits like this plus talking with mouth full of food constantly. I put my annoyance down to misophonia (google it) as I have the same problem/ick with anyone doing this not just him

I have one of these! ☹️

Slopgobbing humans foul my mood as do those who sniff loudly instead of blowing their nose!!!😡

DH slurps, catches his teeth with spoon, puts too much on so things plop back into bowl, crunches too loudly, Clangs the bowl and scrapes it rapidly, he also slurps drinks. I eat my breakfast elsewhere when possible. 😂 Generally he eats noisily and frequently tries to speak with food in his mouth. Drives me and the kids mad!!!😡

We pull him up on it and he will be better for a minute or two but always reverts.
It’s only comfortable being around his eating when there is background noise to drown him out.

At least he chews with his mouth shut and does the washing up. 😂

My DH does this. He also sucks his fingers when he's watching TV or on his phone. There's a squeaky noise when he takes his fingers out of his mouth.
If he has peanuts or crisps he makes an awful sucky smacky noise when he licks his fingers.

Omg this is soo relatable.
DH drives me mad doing this, even worse he gets up earlier than me and insists on eating his cereal sitting on a chair in our bedroom as he likes he view from the window.
I made the error of buying cereal bowls with swirls/ ridges in the pottery so he scraps the spoon up the ridges inside the bowl then he hits the spoon against his teeth then he slurps then he crunches and repeat - is this grounds for divorce??

I had a boyfriend who couldn't stand the sound of me drinking tea, and used to get super angry. He knocked a cup out of my hand once in my own kitchen. It went everywhere That was it, I dumped him. I don't think either of us had heard of misophonia. Life must be hard for people with that condition.

Scraping every last morsel of peanut butter out of the jar and licking it off the knife.

What a way to start the day.

Tea slurping too! I have to put a podcast on to mask it, otherwise I would not be able to control my rage. I tell myself I should copy him and wait for him to comment, then let rip, but I just can't bring myself to do it.