What odd-but-lovely habits / rituals do you and your DP have?

[whatsinmypockets]

Inspired by a chat I had with a friend last night – she mentioned that she and her DP turn on 80s power ballads whenever they have to do house chores they don't enjoy, so they can play air guitar / sing into the antibac spray / throw armfuls of laundry in the air dramatically / hold the bathroom bin above their heads triumphantly while they get things done. Makes the job more fun and they get to feel connected.

It made me smile so much – and made me think of how DP and I, whenever we do something very mundane but do it well (like unpack the online shop delivery quickly or get eyedrops into the dog successfully) will put on overenthusiastic American accents and compliment one another like sports commentators: "Did you see the SPEED of that?" "This man is a true CHAMPION" "Ladies and gentlemen, I think we just witnessed history being made" "I've never seen talent like it"...

I love how couples often develop these weird little rituals that are totally unique to that specific relationship...

Given there's (understandably) so much "something's wrong with my relationship" on MN, I'd love to read some more examples of things like this - what do you and your DP do that's a quirk of your relationship?

Doesn't have to be as 'significant' as my friend and her power ballads – might just be a sweet how-we-make-coffee-in-the-morning routine or a specific way you hold hands...

This is a nice thread.

@ShinyPrettyThings87
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I narrate the dogs voice and my DH responds to it, they/we have full on conversations/arguments sometimes. I think the dog is in on it as he's perfectly on cue to what I'm saying 😁

Oh yep this is one of ours. DP asks the dogs if they've had a good day and what they've been upto and I respond for them 😂

The other day DP didn't end the call when we'd been speaking and I could hear him having a conversation with the dogs and doing all 3 voices - it was then I realised just how sad we are 😂😭

The emergency rice is so cute!

DH never finishes a drink on purpose so I always have something on hand to take my tablets with 😂

before a takeaway I do a stupid dance and if I don’t I get looked at until it’s done. Do a silly little thing where instead of holding hands we put an index finger out until the other touches it back, I think it started as a little a subtle I’m here type thing. Started calling each other love and dear as a joke (started in our 20’s now mid 30’s) and sound like a couple of old folks from Yorkshire. If it rains he does a little weather report and then tells me if it’s worth getting up to look at the amount of rain🤣 and if you don’t beep beep when they poke your nose asking for trouble haha

DH very kindly makes me a sandwich every morning for me to take to work. When I get home each day the ritual is as follows:

"How was your sandwich, nice?"
"Horrible"
"Good!"

😂

We sing lots of songs, quite a few to the tune of the Adventure Time theme. So when it’s bedtime (we ask the dog to ‘hurry up’ when we want him to do a wee) we sing:

It’s Bedkin Time
C’mon grab the pup
Time for him to hurry up
Go in his crate
And sleep ’til morning
The good naps will never end
It’s Bedkin Time!

Also I get in a terrible muddle with my multiple medications so DH portions them out for me each day. I am very lucky to have snagged such a good one.

If we are at a large shop or garden centre, and my husband cannot find me, he will make a loud bird "CAW". I then know he's looking for me and stick my head around the aisle and wave.

He does the same thing in the house if he can't tell if I'm upstairs or downstairs.
The annoying thing is that we have seagulls that sit on the roof and occasionally make a convincingly similar call. So I think he is home, shout out, and wait... then get annoyed that he's doesn't come to see me.

We were reading reviews for a tapas restaurant recently and the only one star review read “owner not Spanish” so now we say it in a sad voice when one of us is disappointed about something. I feel like this one might stick around a while and we will have to explain it to others at some point.

This is great!

Reminds me of the Couples Dictionary trend on Insta / Tiktok....

https://www.instagram.com/liliannawilde/reel/C6t7JsVRjAo/

("Make a documentary about it" is legendary!)

What a lovely thread! Will post in a bit but didn’t want to lose this one 🙂

We argue about soup. We pretend it's really serious and potentially relationship-ending (I like soup, he doesn't) 😆
We have a never-ending game of jinx (I'm winning!)

I sing, in Arty Ziff's voice, through the Ring doorbell when I see DH outside, "I am watching you through a camera!"

We deliberately misunderstand each other. For example I asked DH yesterday if he knew what a charging cable was for when I was tidying up. He just answered yes and wandered off.

If I ever walk into a room and DH is already in there he won't even look up, but will say 'Just pop your clothes on the stool and I'll be with you in a minute' - Life of Brian reference.

We like to pronounce certain words in an exaggerated way with a silly accent, a sort of cross between French and posh English.

Casserole becomes CasserRHOOHWLE for example.

1. We're all about quotes from The Simpsons. All day, every day. We even have a neighbour just like Ned Flanders. We laugh a lot.
2. We came up with a silly secret handshake on our wedding day, which we performed just after our kiss. We like to do the handshake when we've completed a crappy task at home or after successfully getting the kids to bed after a rough day.
3. We also enjoy making up absurd nicknames for our cats and recreating the Circle of Life scene from the Lion King with them.

Whenever one of us is naked the other person slaps their naked arse and says "I see it, I smack it."

I appreciate that is weird AF 🤣

We also play a game sometimes when we have nothing to do. We get in the car, DH drives and I shout random directions like "take the second left, then the third right" and so on and so on for ages. We get completely lost then see what we come across. Usually a random country pub where we can go in and have a pint.

Two minutes Turkish in our house

Love this thread! DH and I always make our bed together and have always tried to flick or snatch the duvet from the other person (even better if this is just as they find the duvet corner) and causes the snatcher to giggle. Now I occasionally make beds at work and have to make a conscious effort not to do this to a poor unsuspecting colleague!

I know that if I say “no way!” he’ll say “Way”

I love the car game idea!!!

I dream of having something like this in a partner. Someone capable of having fun. You are all very lucky 😔

DP and I both were big Bottom fans so any mention of anything to do with gas starts us panicking and shouting “ gas man, gas man” or any crossword or quizzes when we don’t know the answer “I’ll just put bollocks”.

Ours is the whole family rather than just husband and i but if we are about to start something like Spring cleaning or clearing out wardrobes ir even doing something small we just don't want to do we build up to starting by playing Mission Impossible thene tune. The rule is while it's playing we can finish whatever it is we are doing, however once it stops we have to all be in place to start the chore... as a result we end up chaotically crashing around 10 seconds before the end to get to the place we need to start...so imagine lots of sliding into place, pushing each other out the way etc. There are 7 of us so we all end up crashing into each other..

I love this mental image - so much fun!

I once went to a conference where they played "Let's Get It Started' by the Black Eyed Peas at the end of every break as a sign we all had to get back to our seats by the end... the very last seconds of the song go:

"and the bass keeps running, running, and running, running"

and there was always someone running to their seat just as those lyrics played 😂