Fed up of living in a small house with my "funny" DH how to cope

[StormyLovesOdd]

This is kind of light hearted. I've been with my DH 30 odd years and heard all his jokes a million times. We're now both stuck in the house ALL the time as we're working from home and he's seriously driving me insane.

Tonight I had a awful pounding headache and even though I asked him (repeatedly) to stop he was doing his comedy dance routines right in front of the TV to make me laugh. I just wanted to be quiet and watch TV. Why doesn't he get this. It's not a one off, this kind of thing is a daily recurrence. It's like living with Benny Hill (yes I'm old)and grumpy . I don't know how much more of this I can take

It sounds very tiresome in all honesty. I'm all for keeping laughter alive etc, but sometimes it is just knackering to watch.
Hang in there, fingers crossed you can go to your office and have some space soon.
The other way to look at it, at least he isn't ignoring you and he's trying to inject fun into what is essentially a very dull and boring time for everyone.

Suggest he starts his own YouTube channel and get him to record his funny act on there.

Then you can watch him when you want. Or not.

He might get himself some fans. 😁

Much of it is an attempt to make our teen laugh. I ended up going to upstairs to bed early because I couldn't take it anymore. I know there could be much worse things in life but omg I miss my commute to the office and a quiet space to read a book so much. At least it'll be summer soon and I can escape to the garden.

Noise.cancelling. Headphones.

Cheaper than a divorce.

He does sound tiresome.

The thing is, if you ask someone to stop doing something (repeatedly) and they continue, then that just makes them a twat in my eyes.

I mean, I know wfh has magnified things, but what you describe would have been ridiculous at any point.
How have you not addressed it sooner ?

I did start videoing him this afternoon when he was twerking, and threatened to post it on Facebook if he didn't stop, it didn't work.

He was always a life and soul of the party kind of person but it wasn't everyday. He does make me laugh but I just wash he'd give it a rest sometimes,

Noise cancelling headphones are a great idea, thank you 💐

That would drive me nuts.
Maybe if he is'nt listening to your requests to stop, Just leave the room everytime he starts.
That might soon stop him?

I think DH misses his work mates, they think he's hilarious... me not so much.

Here's a possibility.... if you ignore him totally and not ask him to stop then he will give up and stop sooner when he realises he's not getting any attention. The more you ask him to stop and tell him it's annoying the more he will do it

Sorry just realised my previous post was really jumbled but hopefully you get my drift

Am I the only one who now wants to see the video of him twerking 😂

The only place I can go is upstairs as downstairs is all open plan. I need him to go back to work to get it all out of his system

😂 No way am I posting the video on here, far too outing 😂. Ignoring him might be the way to go, it used to work when I had a toddler

@StormyLovesOdd

I did start videoing him this afternoon when he was twerking, and threatened to post it on Facebook if he didn't stop, it didn't work.

You gave him an ultimatum, now you must carry out the threat! And post the link on here

No. No. No. Shovel. . New patio!!

He sounds like David Brent. I very much doubt his work colleagues think he’s hilarious. He’s got a problem.

Have you ever found that shit funny? Sounds annoying as fuck, a post pubescent version of ‘LOOK AT ME!!!!’ Utterly repellent, but I’ve met people over the years who picked spouses like this, so some people must find it sexy. The mind boggles. I can’t bear to be near anyone behaving like that for one second.

I feel angry just reading this. Maybe you could invite a group of irritable, perimenopausal women over?

@IndecentCakes

I feel angry just reading this. Maybe you could invite a group of irritable, perimenopausal women over?

It's attention seeking. He doesn't care if it's positive or negative attention as long as he's the centre of everyone's universe.

Ignore, ignore, ignore. Even if that means going upstairs.

Let's not pussyfoot around it, we all know there's only one solution to this problem. Fancy a new patio, OP? We'll provide the alibi.

Too much.

Why haven't you sat him down snd seriously explained?