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Twatty stuff your X did that you no longer have to deal with

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MrsBerthaRochester · 14/03/2022 19:20

Listening to Classic fm today(everyday) Vivaldis four seasons came on. My dd immediately started laughing and it set me off.
Xh hated the fact that he had to get up for work while we remained in bed for another couple of hours. Hugely resented it. So he would set his alarm to play this really loudly every morning, get up leaving it on and go downstairs and put the radio on. Loudly.
Now he no longer lives here dcs and I never have to listen to that shite again.

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Icantremembermyusername · 14/03/2022 19:25

Great username!
Ex DP was a jump out of bed whistler. We are quiet morning people.
He also used a table knife to cut cheese so the cheese was always wonky.
Never ever finished a hot drink. Always left a centimetre in the bottom of a cup.

Buzlightyear1 · 14/03/2022 19:29

My ex used to watch every single news channel then once he finished he would go back to the one he started onConfused he also hated it if I was asleep so would bang and slam doors to wake me and the baby up. He didn't work so buy also wouldn't do anything around the house unless someone was around and then would make a big show and dance about it. Shock

whereiwanttobe · 14/03/2022 19:31

Mine had to have the TV on all day, from the time he got up until he went to bed. Even if he was reading a newspaper or book, it was on in the background. The quietness in my house still brings me joy.

fluffedup · 14/03/2022 19:34

I've had several twatty exes and could write a long list.

But this one is particularly twatty and petty ...

Once I mentioned that when my bf turned off the slightly leaky taps in my flat, he left them turned tightly and it was hard to turn them on again. I think he felt that this was an opportunity to show off his superior hand strength, as after that I noticed the taps always seemed very tightly turned off. I could hardly get them back on again. I was worried they'd be damaged.

Then one day I walked into the kitchen to see him turning the taps off - he was on one leg leaning over the sink, putting all of his weight into twisting the taps shut as hard as possible, just so that I would find it hard to use them because of his incredible strength. Twat.

Mollyplop999 · 14/03/2022 19:35

Mine slept on the sofa for 20 years and used to leave his dirty socks on the floor for me to pick up. He never , ever washed so much as a cup in all the years we were together.

Nattalie18 · 14/03/2022 19:37

Ex used to cycle to work but had 3 bikes. We always had the bikes in our tiny London flat. No more f*king bikes here!!!

PickledLilly · 14/03/2022 19:37

Camping.

This may not sound twatty initially, but bear in mind I TOLD him I hated camping. He was determined I’d love it. Bought a tent, made me want to murder him putting the fucking thing up. I hated it. He decided I would love it if he bought a different bed. Made me do it again. Still hated it. We went through two tents and an absolute heap of ‘gear’ that Probably cost more than a holiday with walls an actual bed and guess what. I still fucking hated it. Can’t even tot up how many utterly miserable nights over the years I spent in tents hating it because HE liked it so I had to like it as well. If it’s shitter than where you live, it’s not a holiday.

The fact that nobody can ever force me to go camping again is one of the great joys of being single.

Steelesauce · 14/03/2022 19:39

Lots and lots of serious ones for this. But light hearted ones: leaving his dirty pants by the side of the bed in the morning, littering the place with coke cans and not being able to take out a bag of rubbish. Thank god hes gone!

Easterbunnyiswindowshopping · 14/03/2022 19:39

3 exh's so will give 3 examples..
First one - don't miss being blamed for everything that went wrong with our home and dc..
Second one - being made to feel worthless and not allowed to parent my dc.
Third one - being financially abused.
Got a good one at last now!
Been together nearly 10 years.

Bogiesaremyonlyfriend · 14/03/2022 19:39

Mine hasnt gone yet but I'm looking forward to lie ins at the weekend, he sets his alarm early at the weekend so I have to get up but then sleeps in in the week when I have to get up and sort the kids. He puts the radio on when I'm working from home so I cant focus and constantly talks to me when I'm in the middle of things, then tells everyone I never do any work. I'm looking forward to not being constantly criticised as he sits around and i do all the work, he even sings the song from Cinderella as i clean up whilst sitting doing nothing. And not being hit/felt up as I'm trying to go about my daily business.... I really want him gone

Cakequeen1988 · 14/03/2022 19:44

I never have to go out for food and negotiate with a man who is as fussy as a small child about what he would and wouldn’t eat (basically ate burger and chips) and required slatherings of tomato ketchup on EVERY meal he ate!

hightimer · 14/03/2022 19:44

Eat like a warthog

Pick spots on his neck then examine the results on the end of his finger for a good while

Leave skiddy pants on the bathroom/bedroom floor

Do his (manual, sweaty) job for four days straight without showering and demand expect sex, then get the hump when I refused

I fucking love being single Grin

abbey44 · 14/03/2022 19:47

Used to wear nicer (women's) clothes than I was allowed to buy Hmm

Phoenixrising2020 · 14/03/2022 19:48

Get the children to throw my belongings away when I needed to rest. Gaslighting me and forcing me to gaslight myself to cope. Nobody is now stealing my medication and making me look like an addict. Not making me have to take antidepressants to be able to cope with life with him. How therapeutic to write it down.

Northernsoullover · 14/03/2022 19:50

If I slighted him in some way he'd unfriend me on social media. I used to think he was pathetic. After being requested again with some bullshit excuse about how Facebook did it I said to myself if he did it once more it would be the last time. It was. I never knew what I had done to slight him though. Dickhead.
Also he'd scratch my non stick pans by using metal spoons. Then act all butthurt when I asked him to use a wooden one..

MmeMeursault · 14/03/2022 19:52

Slept with a bunch of other women

ClemDanFango · 14/03/2022 19:53

Belching down the phone as soon as he answered it. Before he even said hello.

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MrsBerthaRochester · 14/03/2022 20:01

Mine used to moan like hell that I couldnt iron his shirts properly but refused to do them himself. I used to hate sundays as we had to go his arsehole parents for dinner then I would spend the evening ironing.
I no longer own an iron :)

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uhtredsonofuhtred1 · 14/03/2022 20:02

No more shit all over the toilet

No more walking on eggshells in our own home

No more being scared to make even the smallest of decisions myself in case I got them "wrong" (not his choice in other words)

Not having to be completely paranoid I missed a call which would make him go mad at me

Not having to put up with the vile smells from his body

Oh how I love being single Grin

KohlaParasaurus · 14/03/2022 20:06

Taking my keys or other things I'd notice were missing, watching me going frantic looking for them, then pretending he'd found them in the bin or somewhere stupid like that. (He admitted having done this, I'm not imagining it.)
Standing in the doorway for ages, glaring at me and emitting an annoying little two tone vocalisation from time to time. I still get stressed if someone stands in a doorway or makes that "EH-eh" noise.
Keeping reams and reams of written notes about our relationship, analysing everything I said or did at length, and wanting to chew over details of some perceived insult with me weeks or months later when I couldn't remember if I'd said the thing, let alone why I might have said it.
Mixing three types of breakfast cereal, always exactly three, together in a casserole dish, adding milk, microwaving it, and forgetting to take it out of the microwave and eat it.

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MrsBerthaRochester · 14/03/2022 20:08

Oohh yet another one...being told I wasnt real family as not "blood" related and that he would save his brother in a fire over dcs and me.
Not having to deal with his addict brother who would shout and scream when he wasnt able to get hold of his beloved weed.

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MrsGHarrison87 · 14/03/2022 20:12

Follow and message porn stars on twitter. Constantly accuse me of cheating. Constantly argue with me and accuse me of things I hadn't done.

JungleRed · 14/03/2022 20:12

We both had the cold. The same cold. Ex insisted he was so much more ill. Phoned in sick to his work and made an appointment with the GP. Poor GP actually entertained this walking scrotum of a human and prescribed him decongestants. Ex comes home all self-righteous and smug because he's so so sick with flu and has a prescription to prove it. Then he went to the pub. Without taking the decongestants. Complete twat.

upupandawaytoday · 14/03/2022 20:17

Not having to worry about paying the rent (or asking my parents to bail us out) because he overspent on whatever expensive gadget/hobby/toy he wanted.

Me and my dp will be buying our first house together the moment my divorce is final.

chocolatesaltyballs22 · 14/03/2022 20:19

Too many twatty things to mention but a particular favourite was him falling asleep for 20 minutes in the middle of watching a film or whatever, and then insisting on rewinding and making me rewatch what he'd missed. Every. Fucking. Night.