Trivial things your DH does that drives you nuts

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I was thinking about this while eating my dinner earlier because my runner beans were cold; DH had cooked and a lot of the time when he cooks something with veg, at least one of them is tepid or cold. That got me thinking about other things that, on the surface are quite trivial, but really bloody bug me.

He doesn’t rinse off the shower when he’s finished so there’s always a few stray hairs in the tray.

He leaves doors open; our house is quite cold until the heating has been on for about an hour, we also have two rooms that open off the kitchen, one doesn’t have a radiator and the other one has the radiator turned off. He’ll go into either or both rooms and leave the bloody doors open, making the kitchen even colder than it already is.

He says things like ‘yeah, I’ll do that’ then he doesn’t. When I remind him that X needs to be done, I’m nagging apparently 🙄

He’ll take my car without asking (he has his own car)

He agrees to things without checking with me that I’m ok to do it

He’ll switch the telly over the minute I’ve finished watching something even though we have a second telly that he can watch.

I can’t think of anymore right now and like I said, they’re trivial things but they are all regular occurrences and at times, drive me nuts but I generally don’t say anything because they seem so trivial and also, in so many ways, he’s a great DH.

Clearly you are both wrong…. Curtains / blinds are to keep the heat out in the summer and the heat in during the winter. However, as a result of the way you both use them you are also both inadvertently right 😂

Always always chucks away my glass of water or empties my water bottle before I finish it. I use a big water bottle and have it with me all day. As soon as it gets put on the kitchen top when I get home from work it’s emptied. Even though I plan to continue using it. He knows it winds me up yet still does it.

When he’s making a roast & is carving the meat, he eats bits of it but sort of slurps it in a gross manner as if he hasn’t eaten in a month. I don’t know why as he generally has good table manners.

that’s it really although today he started singing football chants whilst watching the match and that was winding me up. Weird as he’s never done this before so hoping it was a one off.

Mine keeps putting tea towels on top of the gas hob, and it’s often not that clean, and he will end up burning the house down.

My list of annoying things he does, is too long to list

'Cannot wash up without singing, humming or chuntering. It's like he can't just be quiet and do a job. It's constant.'

Jesus Christ YES to this! Endless non stop singing or whistling, or chatter. Or the radio blaring out total shite. Also walks around the house with podcasts (shit ones natch) blaring out of his phone in his pocket. I think he needs the noise to drown out the demons in his head 🙄

Mine waits until the exact moment I go into the kitchen to do something and decides he too, needs to do something in the kitchen. Our kitchen isn’t big enough to swing a cat so I end up either dancing round him or I just go and sit back down.

Also noisy. Cannot do anything gently or quietly. Clatter, bang, stomp, bosh….. JUST SHHHHH!!

Ha ha love this thread. To all the people with cold vegetables, count yourself lucky you get vegetables! The basil in pasta pesto is not enough of a vegetable DH! I have since demanded at least 2 veggies per meal.
He also will fill the fridge with fresh green veg then cook frozen peas & sweetcorn from the freezer 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 leaving me to chop and steam all the fresh stuff all on my turns.
He is also guilty of wiping down the table and countertops with a tea towel then scrunching it up all wet and putting it BACK IN THE TEA-TOWEL DRAWER. This is totally unforgivable behaviour.
He also puts washing on (all his own, I stopped doing joint washing as he never did any or hung it out) and leaves it in the washing machine sometimes for four days so he has to wash it again as it has gone smelly.
Very annoying!
I on the other hand am a perfect housemate and never do any annoying things lol! 😉

Omg are you my DH? This is me!!!!

OMG you are one of my tribe I bloody hate blinds and them blocking natural light

Mine drinks 6-8 pints of squash a night. Full of ice which he rattles in the plastic glass really loudly. He then crunches the ice.

All evening. Soooo annoying and loud.

Then when making said drinks he smashes the bags of ice really loudly on the kitchen worktop to break it up.

It drives me nuts!!

We have a fridge that makes ice but it doesn't make enough so DH buys on average 12 bags of ice a week.

Thought of another 😂
When he shouts me from elsewhere in the house, or when I need him and shout him, I'll say "where are you?" and he ALWAYS replies "Here!" and not the name of the room he is in which drives me mad! I refuse to go and find him lol

I do that. It's rather good fun and quite satisfying. 😎

Another one.

He seems totally incapable of just coming to the table when called for food. In fact, I am sure that he thinks "dinner's ready" actually means "go to the toilet" because that's what he immediately does. Every time. He hurries up just a bit when I get frustrated and tell him "it's on the table going cold"because he knows that that means nobody is waiting for him.

DH is super tidy except for having weird spaces for some things, like his two man bags each live on a dining room chair, which kind of made sense when we lived in an apartment but we have a house now and the dining chairs are not near the front door to grab a bag on your way out.

We clean up together after dinner but he is very particular about the sink being without smears or water marks, which leaves me feeling likes it's out of use by 8pm every night once he's dried it!!

If he wants to talk to me about something serious he talks in a soft mumbling voice, so then I have to ask him to repeat himself and then he looks at me like I'M unreasonable. He only seems to mumble when it's something I really need to hear.

😂

Does it drive your DH around the bend? Do you realize you're doing it or is it completely a habit at this point?

Performative coughing/throat clearing/sniffing/sneezing. He currently has a slightly sore throat which has triggered the Performative Protocol. I'm going out for the day, otherwise I can't be responsible for my actions.

Slumps his tea & coffee. I know he didn't use to do this because I would never have married him.

Leaves little Doom Piles everywhere (not poo, thankfully) just random collections of paperwork, pens, phone charger, empty envelopes, unidentifiable piece of plastic.

Cannot use a clothes hanger correctly. He just tosses the item of clothing in the general direction of the coat hanger and hopes for the best. He actually manages to make his shirts more creased by hanging them up. It's like a gift.

I often wonder if this is a bloke thing as my DS's also started doing it when they hit their late teens. Are they clearing space for the next thing to hit their digestive tracts or something? It's both baffling and infuriating. I just start eating now.

if he always did that, why not just tell him is ready 5 mins before actually is?
And how ‘ cold’ can it get in a couple of minutes?

My XH used to blow on every mouthful of food before he ate it. Drove me round the bend. Every member of his family did it too.

OT but my husband also chewed a huge amount of ice - turns out it’s a not uncommon symptom of iron deficiency anemia. He had a slow bleed in his GI tract, which they were able to treat before it got worse, thank goodness.

1.Asks me where something is, because he's been looking for it and it's definitely not there. I look and it's right in front of him.
2.He can fidget for England.

Apart from that, he's a lovely husband!

Mine sneezes like a bomb going off.
He hardly ever switches lights off, either, but insists that since he replaced them all with LEDs some time ago, the cost is sod all.
Otherwise he’s not a bad old bugger at all.

My dh ‘can’t find things’ either. He once came back from a shopping trip to a really big Asda, saying that they had no loo cleaner. No, none at all! No Harpic or Toilet Duck - yes, of course he looked properly!

Since my reaction then (50/50 😂/😡) he will make a point of ASKING a member of staff. Which always works, funnily enough!

Leaves lights on in empty rooms.
Sits in a room in the dark.
I mean, it's not a big deal in itself, but just don't understand the logic. I'm forever going around turning off/switching on lights, especially at this time of the year 😂