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Annoying couples

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Sendingoutsignals · 28/10/2019 00:52

Recently out of a relationship which may be clouding my thinking

But really have had it up to here with smug couples - you know the type, every sentence starts with “we”, cannot do anything with anyone else without partner being in some way involved, basically co dependent. And proud of it!

Any more to add?!

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DontCallMeShitley · 28/10/2019 01:23

What really makes me heave is 'We are pregnant'. Unless you both have a womb you are not.

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Sendingoutsignals · 28/10/2019 02:34

YESSS (NOT envy I hasten to add)

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namechange122222 · 28/10/2019 04:43

Sorry to be a killjoy, but the ones that languorously kiss each other on the train on the way to work. Right next to you. They might think they invented love, but I don’t want to hear the wet smooching sounds!!

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Sendingoutsignals · 28/10/2019 09:52

Hate that so much

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leasedaudi · 28/10/2019 17:58

@namechange122222 there is a couple that catch the tube at the same time as me and the guy has a moustache/half beard. He rests his head on her shoulder and she strokes his beard for half an hour into the city. It really irks me so I now get the next tube if they're on the platform!

namechange122222 · 28/10/2019 18:29

@leasedaudi I totally get it .

namechange122222 · 28/10/2019 18:30

(Have you considered moving house ).

Potplant · 28/10/2019 18:37

Couples who talk to each other over FB.
'Just want to thank my my lovely husband for treating me to whatever today'.
No you don't, you want to show off and be all smuggy smug. FUCK. RIGHT. OFF.

sammylady37 · 28/10/2019 18:54

I know a couple who consider themselves a unit when buying rounds, ie only one of them will buy a round and the other one considered that their round too, despite them getting two drinks from everyone else’s round. Funnily enough, not many people do rounds with them anymore

mbosnz · 28/10/2019 19:01

Couples who talk to each other over FB.
'Just want to thank my my lovely husband for treating me to whatever today'.
No you don't, you want to show off and be all smuggy smug. FUCK. RIGHT. OFF.

I hate that too. And also wonder what's really going on in their relationship that they don't just bloody say it to each other already. . .

And I'm a revoltingly smug married to many, I'm sure!

Tooearlyforadrink · 28/10/2019 19:06

I worked with one guy who’s girlfriend would drive him to his football game or practice and sit and wait in the car until he’d finished.

He could drive himself
It wasn’t even far
Did she have nothing better to do than sit in a car for 2 hours?

He found this very sweet. I thought she needed to get a life.

Antler728 · 28/10/2019 19:08

Oh they make me puke! A friend of mine had an affair with a married man. They’ve broken up 2 homes, 4 dc involved. They’re now shacked up together with lots of puke-inducing declarations of love on insta #soul mates, #my rock, #lost without you,# couple goals, #best friends, #matching tattoos bla bla bla.

Tooearlyforadrink · 28/10/2019 19:09

there is a couple that catch the tube at the same time as me and the guy has a moustache/half beard. He rests his head on her shoulder and she strokes his beard for half an hour into the city. It really irks me so I now get the next tube if they're on the platform!

I was stuck behind a couple once in traffic and his hand was placed firming on her head stroking her hair for the whole 20/30 minutes.

If someone did that to me I’d smack their hand away and tell them to piss off for making my hair greasy.

inwood · 28/10/2019 19:20

We're pregnant or were expecting really fucking irritates me. I'm married with kids, he wasn't pregnant, he didn't give birth. 🤢 🤢 🤢

Redcrayons · 28/10/2019 19:51

@mbosnz I know! It's just so weird.

HenSolo · 28/10/2019 20:07

Couples who talk to each other over FB.
'Just want to thank my my lovely husband for treating me to whatever today'.
No you don't, you want to show off and be all smuggy smug. FUCK. RIGHT. OFF.

Hee hee this is the one I hate...I know a woman who does this except she capitalises ‘My Husband’

HenSolo · 28/10/2019 20:08

Ugh bold fail

TheFaerieQueene · 28/10/2019 20:10

Tbh whilst ‘we’re pregnant’ is horrendous, we are expecting is fair enough as they are both expecting a baby. There isn’t a medical condition ’expecting’.

JenniferM1989 · 28/10/2019 23:04

I read a thread a couple of months a go. The OP was basically saying she was arranging the Christmas night out this year for her workplace and she wanted to plan it for a Saturday night. She basically wanted views on this.

The amount of "me and DH don't do weekend work things, that's family time". Or "Hell no, not on a weekend". Why? It's one bloody night. These are the types of smug couples that annoy me. They come across as smug but there's a major control issue if one or both of them can't go to a work thing just one night a year! It being close to Christmas was even wiped out as a good reason as the responses were mostly "We decline work things that are at the weekend, that's family time". I get that but I think it's unhealthy that neither parent or part of the couple can forgo their partner/spouse/children for one evening to socialise.

I know these types. 'My family are my world' types. No, you are a control freak that doesn't let anyone have a life outside of the family

PurpleDaisies · 28/10/2019 23:05

Public displays of affection should be banned.

Also Facebook soppiness.

Pavlova31 · 29/10/2019 01:34

Holding hands but with arms stretched so far out they take up almost the whole pavement which means people can't get past them.
Another one here about WE are expecting and/or calling him Hubby .Does she like to be called Wifey ?

PinterStar · 29/10/2019 03:32

Gushing posts on Instagram or fb - why do this?! I think it just shows insecurity.

I know a woman who used to write these long gushing blog posts about how perfect her boyfriend was, how their relationship was "special", telling everyone what "real love" looks like. They broke up. Now she writes gushing Instagram posts about her new boyfriend though thankfully seems to have stopped suggesting that what she has with him is somehow different or more special than everyone else's relationships.

Dandelion1993 · 29/10/2019 03:55

@jenifferm1989 I think declining work thing on a weekend for anyone including couples is fine. That is non work time.

My one is couples who post an anniversary thing every month on facebook. I went to uni with a couple who met during freshers week and every month with out fail (until it ended) they would both post crap like "happy 3 month anniversary". It was insane.

coastergirl · 29/10/2019 04:22

"We are pregnant" drives me crazy. Pregnancy is a medical state of growing a baby in your uterus. "We are having a baby" is fine.

LimpNightshade · 29/10/2019 04:37

Reminds me of a friend of DH's and his (now ex-wife) then girlfriend. DH and his friend hadn't seen each other for more than a year and planned a "guys' night out" to reconnect. Plan was for the friend to pick up DH from our house so the two could go to our local. Of course, who should also show up but the girlfriend because "otherwise we wouldn't have seen each other this evening". They lived together at the time

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