What minor things does your partner do that quietly annoy you?

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This is a lighthearted thread inspired by a similar topic on another forum. I found that I resonated with so many of them.

What things does your partner do that your find annoying, but not so much to make a big fuss about.

A couple of mine (there are more 😃) that DH does are washing his plate after a meal, but leaving the cutlery he used in the sink.

Another is talking to me from another room our upstairs.. and somehow getting upset when I say I can't hear him

Um. Really sorry to bring this up. But… it’s a thing with some people who have ADHD

Nothing wrong with this!

I'm loving some of these!

Yep, a few women on this thread (including me) have said they do it. I don’t know why I do it. Sometimes I get distracted before I’m finished something. I tend to keep doors open, eg on fridge until I’m finished a task. Again I’m not sure why!

This. My husband does this too and it’s infuriating and baffling.

DH is the same.. very loud. Usually when it's a colleague, but not actually talking about work.

Whenever he sneezes he can't just sneeze once or twice like a normal person he sneezes about 10 times in a row I have to pause the telly and try not to act on my homicidal thoughts

Well I’m formally diagnosed and I do it. Plus a lot of the other things described here. But I live on my own. Which is both necessary but also hardly surprising.

Sneezes really loudly, honestly there is no need for it,

leaves loo lights on, like just walks out and leaves the light on. Just why.

will often go for a nap after golf, I always say use a spare room, so if we are going out I can use our bedroom to get ready . Often find him in there sigh. Blinds shut, having a kip. How hard can it be,

uses the great big kitchen knife , you know the biggest ones you get in sets, somewhat cleaver like, to spread something on his toast. Butter or sandwich filler. Can’t get my head round that at all. Who does that.

he’s lovely, but these things are really irritating.

Repeating the same lines from his favourite movies.....almost daily

Thinks he's good at words but says things like 'the reason being, is...' and can't pronounce the word 'nuclear'.
Never plans ahead for journeys, so if he is driving we always have to come off the motorway in search of a Tesco for cheap fuel. Never thinks about what lane he needs to be in until the last minute and doesn't like me telling him! Also can't mop up crumbs or close cupboard doors, or put lids back on things properly.

I do this with wrappers to 🤣🤣

Yes, the irritable list can be so long.

Another one with DH is when he washes his hands or anything else in the kitchen sink, he doesn't dry out even shake of the water, so it's dripping on the floor.

Stacking glasses when wet, so they've ended up broken. I had a go at him for this recently, because I've said it before.

He leaves a tiny bit of food in pots, so he doesn't have to wash them.. but to be fair my kids are way worse than him with this.

Amazingly, he has many good qualities. He's very handy, fixes our washing machine, dryer if they breakdown, great with flat pack furniture assembly, he keeps things neat and tidy.

Puts a full kettle on every bloody time he empties it grinds my gears!

Narrates what he's doing, as if I'm going to be interested. I'm not interested in hearing that you're putting water in the kettle.

When he does something for me (like making a cup of tea) tells me he's doing it because he's a nice guy. No, I haven't bothered explained that men who feel the need to tell women they're nice are actually the opposite. He'd just mainsplain to me how that was wrong.

When he's going upstairs to the loo has to make noises to indicate how desperate for the loo he is. YUCK.

Walks through the house to take his shoes off and then takes them back to put them by the door. Just take them off AT THE FUCKING DOOR.

Never notices if I've had my hair done/am wearing something new, have made an effort with my appearance. Yet expects me to notice when his hair has been trimmed.

I could go on all night.

Puts tissues under the pillows at night, denies being asleep when he clearly snoring, throws his teaspoon in the sink after every coffee, toilet seat is permanently up, puts nothing away ever and then complains the house is a dump.

Yep also diagnosed. Sorry I was agreeing with your post, if it didn’t seem that way.

You are not alone!

Cupboards, wardrobe doors, every drawer known to man, he leaves it open. And he doesn't do the lids on bottles & jars up properly either.

Soooo many things but he's recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's so I feel I should cut him a bit of slack.

HOWEVER.... he's started to open the door at the bottom of the stairs veeerrryyyy slowly and then the handle squeaks. If you open the door like a normal human being the noise doesn't even register, when he does it, it goes on for about ten seconds. Even typing this is raising my blood pressure.

I acknowledge the issue is 100% mine and there are definitely bigger issues for us to manage, but dear god....

Obsessed with the Ring camera and any new cars in the street

Makes pff pff pff noises with his lips at night because he sleeps with his mouth shut but breathes through his mouth anyway.

I laughed at this because this is immediately what came to mind about mine when I saw the thread title!

Thank you, I will use this as justification!

Takes the ‘bits catcher’ out of the kitchen sink plug then moans that the sink is blocked. Decides to empty the dishwasher when I am cooking dinner and putting things away around me. Drives me nuts

He,s Italian and grates Parmesan over has pasta like he’s throwing confetti!! it ends up everywhere!

opens beers and puts the caps in the utensils draw. Soooo unhygienic and annoying.

stopped drinking now does it with alcohol free beer caps.

My late OH would fall asleep the moment his head hit the pillow. Partly annoying because of jealousy, partly because we'd often be mid conversation and he would just conk out and start snoring.

I've always been the type who takes ages to fall asleep - often 1-2 hours. I also needed way more sleep than him (8-9 hours vs his 3-5 hours) so having to spend 10+ hours to feel rested when he could feel fresh as a daisy in as little as 3 felt very unfair.