The most irritating thing my partner does is ...

[FatCatThinCat]

Just for fun, what is the most irritating thing your partner does? Just one thing, which isn't easy if they're like mine as I could fill the thread by myself. Thankfully the none irritating things are even more plentiful. And for balance, what would they say about you?

My DP still drives like he's just passed his driving test. He believes that test level driving is the pinacle of good driving rather than the minimum standard. And it drives me up the bloody wall so much that I'll only go in the car with him driving if I need to sleep so I can't see what he's doing. Other drivers think he's a learners without L plates on.

If you asked him he'd say my most irritating behaviour is opening windows when the heating's on. He thinks I'm happy for him to pay to heat the whole of northern Europe.

Used. Ear. Buds. Everybloodywhere

Cough. Nothing to do with covid, he's not unwell, has been investigated, non smoker, he's done it for bloody years, and it is solely to annoy me.

1. Sniffing. Won't blow his nose and if pushed, makes a half hearted attempt then concludes with a loud sniff.
2. Licks his lips before kissing and reckons everyone does. The tissues he won't use on his nose then come in handy to dry off afterwards.

Always being late for everything, including dinner. Usually at least one of the other people at the table has already finished by the time he comes and sits down. He's just faffing on the way, nothing important. When we leave the house, no matter how much warning I give him of when we need to leave, he'll still be getting his shoes on, looking for his coat, checking the doors again while me and the kids are sat in the car ready to go.

He lays the plastic chopping boards horizontally in the sink after use, blocking it totally, making it difficult to manoeuvre out and wash under the taps. Every. Single. Time. And if I don't get to it quickly, a child comes along and fills their water glass, which results in water bouncing off the board and spraying themselves and everything in sight. Must have told him.a thousand times

Asks questions that he could easily find the answer to - "is the dishwasher empty?" well open it and have a look!

Throat clearing constantly.

Forgot my own: I massively over pack every time we go away. It's so unnecessary and a load of hassle and it drives me mad as well as dh!

Mine does my head in talking about "the dream I had last night". I just can't bear it - it's not interesting to me at all what someone dreamt about. My sister used to do the same - tell me all about the dream she had and how scary or funny it was - I don't know why but it really pisses me off 😂

Another thing that irritates me is DP will go for a run, come back and tell me the route in detail. I don't care, I am totally disinterested.

Not sure if I've understood the tone of the thread so won't post more although I've got f*cking loads 😂

His Mum has a habit of only saying half a word - “Do you want some vin on that” instead of vinegar. “Are you having a coff” instead of coffee. I hate it. He’s recently started doing it. I feel like a cow but I have to pull him up on it every single time as it sets my teeth on edge.

Retching while teeth cleaning - thought that was just my husband!

As for mine, I have many. The one he hates the most is that I hate him spooning me, but I have to spoon him. I have to start sleep in the exact same position every night. So I snuggle into his back and wrap my arm around him. But then I have an itch. Then another. Then another. He can’t relax because he doesn’t know when I’ll be moving around to scratch an itch. It drives him potty.

We like playing board games. But the way he picks up tokens in Splendor makes me want to kill him. It's the oh so jaunty here we go ness I cant bear.

And he NEVER wipes down any surfaces.

@InsideNumberNine 😂 that's really made me laugh - would drive me mental!

If anyone in our house gets ill, then he walks around for the next week claiming he is ill too, even if he isn’t. He will walk around saying his throat is feeling scratchy, he is nauseous or he can feel it coming. If he gets a cold, it’s a ‘chest infection’, if he gets a headache, it’s a ‘migraine’, if he gets a stomach ache, it’s ‘appendicitis’, etc.
Honestly I am surprised when we make it a full week without him claiming he is ill. Covid has been a bloody nightmare... at least once a week he will say he thinks he has covid. He has had so many covid tests I am surprised they haven’t given him a loyalty card.

Also he is obsessed with toilets, as in he will go for a wee at least 3 times before he leaves the house and won’t go anywhere unless he is 100% sure he will have access to a loo, even if it’s only for half hour.

He would say, I’m always late, I take control of the tv remote and I vape too loudly. 😂

'As for mine, I have many. The one he hates the most is that I hate him spooning me, but I have to spoon him. I have to start sleep in the exact same position every night.'

@InsideNumberNine that is the exact same position i go to sleep in too. I will literally tell dh he has to turn over so i can spoon him to go to sleep! I don't let him spoon me and if he tries when I've changed position in the night he gets pushed back onto his pillow It's terrible i am bossy with the bed and last night he told me off for stealing all of the duvet

there isn't one most irritating thing he does.
we've been married for 21 years so I have a list.😁
poor dude though, I'm so much worse than he is!

Constantly moves things that he thinks don't fit into the cupboard (they do if organised properly) to random places like the high cupboards above the boiler and I have no idea where they've gone. Ffs.

I have to add one more. Having an extremely long hot bath without opening a sodding window so everything is DRIPPING in condensation. FFS.

Exhales.

He does this thing where he makes a statement about something so the person he is having a conversation with is forced to ask him about his statement. It is always apropos of nothing.

Person: It seems like the renovations on your house are going well

Husband: Yes. Did I tell you about the time in Greece I swam with sharks?

I don’t indulge his conversational follies and simply cut him off when he starts rambling..

He would say it bothers the shit out of him when I start cleaning the table before he is done eating.

Oh so so many.

My DH has at some point, either been told or has decided that it is rude to finish the last of any foodstuff so he always leaves something. But the amount is so small that it's pathetic. So instead of saying "is it ok if I eat the last of the ham/cheese" or whatever he will leave a quarter of a slice of salami, the smallest piece of cheese, a tiny end of a cucumber or onion, three rice crispies! I spend my life trying to decide what to do with random tiny amounts of food (feed them to some of the posters on MN perhaps given the way the can make a chicken last a whole week! )

He also says (with fake jolly tone) "it's a limit not a target" every time I drive. Just.Fuck.Right.Off

Mine are leaving half drunk glasses of water or cans of Diet Coke in every room and also thinking everyone on TV looks like someone else and commenting on it. Oooh he's got the look of Stephen Mulhern was tonight's commentary from I Can See Your Voice (I'm right though and you know it)

@Izzwizzo

oh my goodness, I do both of your things!!!
Please, please be my tv buddy, the lookalike game irritates everyone here!

[quote ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]@Izzwizzo

oh my goodness, I do both of your things!!!
Please, please be my tv buddy, the lookalike game irritates everyone here![/quote]
Shall we start a thread on it! . I believe I'm scarily accurate but it drives DH up the wall (that might be a small motivator when he's being particularly annoying)

Talks through TV programmes we are both watching. He will now pause them so a 30 minute programme can last an hour!

Watch videoed on Twitter with the sound on whilst watching TV

When he gets a takeaway he will put it in a plate and eat a bit of it first standing up in the kitchen (I feel v mean as this is a tiny thing but it pees me off!)