Inconsequential but HIGHLY irritating things your DH does

There's always time to be a martyr! Just ask my mil!

Pardon the ignorant Texan. 😁

Now an ex.. didn't live together.

He would always turn up at my house and go in the bathroom for a poo. Grrrr.... he had just left his own house ffs !

Ohh loads...answering a question wirh a question...answering a question with a reply that clearly demonstrates hes not even listened to the question....taking the credit for my ideas when he simply agreed to them and contributed some minor obvious consideration that I had already covered off....asking me what's for dinner every day when its not actually my decision, I only inherit the task of cooking it...

It's quibbles like these that remind us of the good stuff. I joke with DH that I only keep him because I don't want to have to put the bins out myself but we both know that wouldn't save him for 40+ years.

Lots of my quibbles seem to be widespread - leaving plastic stuff on the drainboard after the dishwasher, taking pans out of the dishwasher to make more room then leaving them unwashed in the sink, etc. but he also, despite being an adult who has lived in this house for 30 years just as I have, will leave things in a little cluster on the worktop because he "doesn't know where they go" WTAF???
My kitchen is a bit dated now and has shiny granite worktops. He washes his hands in the kitchen sink then, rather than using a towel immediately, insists on shaking his hands off first which puts blobs of water all over the worktops that he, being a man, can't see!

Hahaha! How did she find the time ?.that's mad. 😊

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Is he from the Midlands by any chance?my DH does these and he is a Brummie.

Unpacks the dishwasher and leaves lots of stuff on the countertop because he doesn’t know where to put it.
He’s only been living in the house for 25 years and the kitchen has remained the same.

One of my (female) children does this.
Drives me bonkers

WHAT !!!
Grounds for divorce for definite.

My husband has a very theatrical pantomime cough. When he's got a cold it's an extremely serious business. His cough is like something from a scene in a film about the Black Death. All he needs is a grubby white bedshirt, a flea ridden horsehair mattress and a red cross painted on the front door and we're good to go. It's important that we all know he has a Very Bad Cough and a great deal of effort goes into making it as exaggerated and as possible.

I stand with my arms folded and one eyebrow arched and make passive aggressive comments like 'Oh dear, we are poorly, aren't we?'

Mine has it on auto or full all the time and has it wiping a rain free windscreen! Thereby knackering the wiper blades. Drives me mad - I just give it the odd swish. Maybe we need to swap husbands (not like THAT 😂)

Mine does, too. He thinks it's too messy, otherwise, no matter how much I point out that it's the flicky ends that make the mess, so if you cut it up, there are more flicky ends.

Oh my God 😬

The shoutsneezing. I am capable of sneezing without engaging vocal chords, so why won't he?

Using my late father's expensively reupholstered Victorian chair as a dumping ground for random tech items - currently a record player.

Another one. My job involves very deep thinking. As a result, I am very good at zoning the world out and getting very deep and lost in my own thoughts.

And when someone speaks or even walks into the room, I will jump out of my skin because I'm so IN MY HEAD that it's like a jump scare.

It's a me problem, not a him problem. My son makes me jump. The dog barking or doorbell ringing makes me jump.

But he gets really offended if it's him that makes me jump. Like, actively storms off in a huff sometimes.

Like dude, YOU made ME jump why are you the one being all dramatic and huffy about it? I'm not!

Oh my friend does something similar.

If you're eating roast chicken dinner or something. He'll cut up all his meat, his potatoes his veg into bite size pieces (like you might for a toddler) and then eat it
It's like he never moved onto "grown up" eating where you cut a bit, eat it...cut a bit more etc.

YES! I sat opposite him a few weeks ago and it gave me the serious rage.

Does he cut it up with a knife and fork? I think that's pretty much grounds for divorce. Mine will cut it with his fork then try to pile all the short strands onto his spoon. I have to look away or I'll say something I'll regret.

That is seriously one of my biggest pet hates. I'd had have brained him and served time by now. Likewise, people who don't use nice absorbent dishcloths for wiping kitchen counters, but one of those tiny, useless, not very absorbent sponges with a scourer on one side. They are scouring pads, not dishcloths. They leave the worktop wet and don't pick up crumbs properly. Please for the love of God, just STOP doing simple things badly and with the wrong tools.

Me too 🤣

I've stopped making spaghetti bolognese/carbonara ... anything involving spaghetti really, as I can't stand the way he eats it.

DH is very good at physically clearing dishes away after dinner and loading the dishwasher (and also unloads it most of the time) but almost never wipes down any of the worksurfaces, or the dining table, or the hob. Just leaves them sporting whatever debris remains.

However, on the rare ocassion that he does wipe something he soaks a dishcloth but then doesn't squeeze it out, just sort of swirls the sodden, dripping thing round the surfaces until everything is soaking, then just leaves it like that.

Then doesn't rinse or even squeeze out the dirty dishcloth but just leaves it in a soggy heap on the draining board.

Another one:
if I ask him if he fancies doing something at a weekend he looks panicked and says, 'Ooh, I hadn't thought about it.'
No, I wasn't expecting you to have thought about it in advance and prepared a fucking presentation about it, I'm just trying to open a discussion about what we might do today.