to think that if your 'D' P/H does something whch sets your teeth on edge you should be able to ask them to stop?

[TheLogLady]

without then geting all narky and hurt and poor me-ish?

example:

'D'H rubs his hands together (like some stupid panto character) in glee. It sets my teeth on edge, makes me cringe, makes me nauseous, goes right through me etc etc.

he has just done it right next to my head. I was sitting, he was standing.

I said somewhat sharply 'Please don't do that'

He has gone off in a huff announcing 'There are many things you do which I don't like but don't metion'

should I have not mentioned it (despite it making me want to kill him?)

and perhaps this should be in relationships - how do you not murder a parter who sets your teeth on edge?>

OP: "2. holds his knife like a pen" > Kill him.

AC - your DH is card carrying bonkers

AC wow I thought tapping the toothbrush 3 times after brushing teeth was annoying.

I would be behind bars I think if I was woken up by that each morning!

dice and deodorant is beyond weird.

1. when he makes a sandwich he'll go and eat it without clearing up all the mess first.

I know, I am a saint. Fact O:D

I love your DH AC, he is totally batshit crazy!

I think rubbing your hands together in glee is hilarious myself. He should say exceeeellent like Mr.Burns though.

You should be able to ask, but no guarantees he will stop

DH has so many of these irritating habits I've given up:

• will ask me a question, then as soon as I start to answer, he'll get out his yukky hankie (uurgh... that's another whole issue entirely) and blow his nose loudly over the beginning of my answer. I've started ignoring him, and waiting until he's finishing blowing, and by then he's saying, 'come one, what do you think?' and I say (as if talking to a small toddler) "once you're ready to listen properly, I will answer you@

• DH also does the hand-rubbing thing, but tends to do it when he's preparing food, so he will be backing a sandwich etc, and then rub his hands together (as if rubbing off crumbs...) OVER THE TOP OF WHATEVER HE IS MAKING [bleurgh..] The DC & I tell he we don't want his flaked skin cells in our food, thanks...

WriterofDreams - actually I can and do get really fucking wound up by DH's jaw clicking - it wouldn't click if he didn't shove so much bastard food into his mouth in one go! This is a man who takes a bite out of a sandwich, then another and another before he starts to chew. Like there wasn't enough food in the first (large) bite. I know this is the case because when he has less food in his mouth it doesn't bloody well click!

I want to kill DH on a regular basis for his annoying habits - mostly noise related - and I tell him so. I have tried asking him nicely, I have tried shouting, I have tried sarcasm, I have tried pleading - I have even resorted to asking why he hates me so much and wants to make me miserable (it really does make me utterly miserable) - all to no avail. He claims (and this winds me up too!) that he has a form of Tourette's syndrome where he has to keep singing one line of a song over and over and over and fucking over - he doesn't at all, it's just a bad habit. Not knowing the right words to anything is a bad habit. Singing Yabbadabba instead of the words is a bad habit. Making those tinny tsh tsh noises, like you hear from other peoples' headphones, is a really bad fucking habit.

I have problems with repetitive noise. Always have had. I seem to have a skin missing when it comes to noise sensitivity. I don't know why I married someone with noise-making ishoos, before anyone asks - I just don't know.

sorry, should have rad making a sandwich...

No shit sherlock,it's not uncommon to find dp manically rifling through the house searching for a fecking dice. When the dice run out he has been known to buy cheapo pound shop games, he currently has a mini snakes and ladders game one.

AND he dosent wash out the washing up bowl before he washes up, everything else I can ignore but THAT.....

it is funny isn't it.
I get cross with DH for stomping round the house, but I also get cross if he comes into a room quietly and makes me jump

bless him he can't win.

1. tapps his knife on the chopping board before he cuts somehig twat.

Bloody hell loglady! I think you should just put him out of his misery

Oh I'm glad it's not just me that gets irrationally annoyed by these things.

DH who is generally lovely :

1. Makes hideous and vile noises when eating sweetcorn or crisps, but most particularly when eating fruit he seems to inhale it in a loud slurping way rather than chew quietly

2. He likes to point things out when we are in the car by tapping his finger loudly on the window to point to it, for some reason this drives me slightly insane

3. He literally scrapes his plate or cereal bowl clean. If I am not looking he will sometimes try to lick it and this is in front of impressionable DS

This has been terribly cathartic

Yes pip tea slurping, am with you there

Mine cracks his knuckles, aargh. I have asked many times for him not to do it in front of me he nods and then forgets.

This is soooo funny! I've loved reading some of your DH/DPs annoying habits.

My DP (who I ADORE) can drive me mad sometimes and I'm sure I do him.

The thing that annoys me the most is when I ask him what the time is and his reply is "about that" !!!! AARRGGHH

Also the breathing thing, what is is with men and breathing sooooo loud, mine could suck all the air out of a room!

Licking his plate/bowl clean even when out or in company!!!

He seems incapable of being able to actually put dirty dishes IN the washing up bowl, they only ever make it to the kitchen side!

Heaven forbid he should ever actually do the washing up!

Oh and as for washing up, he leaves a bowl full of murky water with a sponge floating in it at the end.

Kill them all.

Just do it, you know it makes sense.

I am so irritable and stressed just from reading this thread.

AC, has your DP read The Dice Man?

You should by it for him as a cautionary tale

tethersend, I ave just ordered a copy, thank you !!

I'll probably end up reading it, but that is sooooooooooooooooo going in his christmas stocking

I think having lived with my dad for 22 years any man would be an improvement so even though DH does have annoying habits they are actually (still, after 9 years) a blessed relief!

My dad:

• eats like a pig (head down to the trough plate, continuous shovelling)
• chews his moustache, making a crunch crunch noise
• brushes his teeth, then rinses his mouth in the kitchen This is so he can use the filtered water. This is madness on a par with AC's DH and actually makes me feel ill
• snores (so loudly I could hear him in my room)
• changes the channel then leaves the room

In contrast, my DH is such a quiet sleeper that I actually have checked a few times to see if he is alive, has impeccable eating habits (better than mine by far),and is generally very tolerable.

The one thing I can't stand is that when he eats a banana (and only a banana, don't have a clue why) his jaw clicks. I can't bear it but I can't exactly say anything as it's really not his fault.

Brilliant!

I'm profoundly deaf...so a lot of these noises from DH - well, I have no idea if he makes them