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to want to kill DH for his insistance nothing bad could possibly have happened?

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irrationalfury · 12/09/2011 03:16

YOU WILL NOTE it is after 3am.

The car alarm just went off. I was bolt upright in seconds (it's a very old-style loud alarm), being a light sleeper. DH was sleeping in just pants and I was in PJs so after some fumbling around trying to get the car keys after yesterday's jeans I went down and was at the car within a minute or two.

The driver side door was open. It is a very old car and a total wreck - not worth more than £300 if that - but there's lots of fancy cars in the area and we're on the 'stumbling home' route from the High St for the billions of well-heeled young professionals (usually much bigger wankers than the people who live in the nearby 'rough' estates), too. Despite being a pile of crap our car has had windows smashed and other gratuitious damage in the past - perhaps because it's a bit beaten-up? Who knows. Anyway.

I didn't touch the door in case of fingerprints. Got the alarm off and looked around. At this point DH arrived and immediately insisted that "it was probably the wind" and he'd "probably left the door unlocked and the wind had opened it".

Car was parked up about 10 hours ago btw. Plenty of time for the wind to miraculously open the door.

He opened the door, we checked the inside, locked it and went back inside. for some reason I was totally furious that H kept insisting that my explanation (someone had yanked the door and been alarmed by the, well, alarm and legged it), was somehow LESS LIKELY than his having left the car unlocked (the alarm would've gone off), and 'the wind' opening the door ten hours later.

I kept saying "I think it was more likely to have been a person", and he KEPT SAYING "no I don't see why really".

I sent him back to bed but was properly ready to have a giant row! He's now snoring of course while I am meerkatting in case the alarm goes off again.

WHY am I so angry? WHY is he insisting that nothing bad could possibly have happened? What's in it for him, to believe it was 'the wind'?!

TWAT.

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Hassled · 12/09/2011 12:59

But WHY? What's his motivation? Is he consciously trying to belittle you - and why? Are you obviously the smarter/more successful of the two of you - does that bother him?

I sort of have this a bit with my DH - he's always of the view that nothing bad will ever happen. Not one for worst case scenarios. And that's because nothing bad has ever happened to him - he's led a charmed life, while I've had probably a bit more than the standard amount of shit. There are times I find it infuriating - DH: "It'll be fine". Me: "How can it possibly be fine?"

Plus, he does always blame our blocked drains on "the wind". It is never the wind, being underground and all. It is always the poo.

vmcd28 · 12/09/2011 12:59

This sounds a lot like my dh. He never ever admits to being wrong or unreasonable, which then leads to a row. A row which wouldn't hv happened if he'd just said, "oh no, that was me - how stupid." End of story.

SO, imo, your dh left the door wide open, and the wind set off the alarm.

irrationalfury · 12/09/2011 13:08

I wish I knew why he does it. I am fairly sure there's not a power struggle dynamic. I've tried to discuss it with him loads but he says he doesn't do it.

We've had some awful awful fights about it. But that's another story for another board!

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