To expect my oh to have manners and stop talking with his mouth full and eating so noisily!

[Alisonjayjay]

He is a lovely man who I love to bits but his eating habits are really getting on my nerves.

I refuse to do the job which his own mother should have done and nag him to eat with his mouth closed.

It may be because I am 40 weeks pregnant but it is really annoying me more and more recently! He slurps cereal and tea and when he eats crisps I hear every crunch. He has his mouth wide open and if I look at him I can actually see them being crunched up in his back teeth! :s He will speak with his mouth full and doesn't seem to see my disgust.

Our 7 year old is very polite and eats perfectly. Obviously he learned his manners from me and not his Dad.

It's got to the point I need to leave the room if he's eating. Please don't tell me I need to nag him like I'm his mum :(

I'd starve the basterd til he learnt to eat properly

Hahaha brilliant reply :D

YANBU. It's up there with seeing people walking along spitting or holding one nostril and blowing snot onto the pavement

Tell him how difficult it is becoming mustering up the willpower to have sex with someone who has this disgusting habit.

One of the most annoying things is that he doesn't seem to notice that it annoys me! When I was about 12 weeks pregnant I was having horrendous morning sickness and I wanted to knock him out when he was hanging over my shoulder eating cheese and onion crisps!

Am waiting for helpful replies - my DH has phases of picking in nose all the time. No amount of nagging works.

Ditto - although not to the extreme you are at. I don't know whether I never realised before or whether its a new habit he started but it's more and more irritating. I have made comments about not talking with your mouth full and you never used to do it so why now, eat quieter.
I have become more sensitive to everything though - even those at work - one eats and her jaw clicks and that annoys me although writing that or saying it out loud makes me laugh that it annoys me so much.

I think they're irredeemable - if their mothers didn't do it they're not going to change now. Mine's clears his main course and dessert before the rest of the family have barely started. Isn't too noisy except with apples and farts like a carthorse!! I have learned to let it go over my head (except the farts that is).

I couldn't deal with this at all. I couldn't have married him. I get seriously murderous at this kind of behaviour. I would nag like his mother personally!

hattymattie
i thought they all farted like carthorses!

josie - you console me

DH is like this. When we have his parents around for a meal I always engineer it so FiL sits opposite him and MiL next to him - see how they like it

DS (15) now shouts at DH if he's making a lot of noise eating.

Yuk my dad does exactly the same but he also blows his nose and then inspects the snot even if I am still eating! Vom!

It's not irredeemable. DP used to do this, it makes me feel ill. I told him so. I will not budge on this and I don't care if it embarrasses him or upsets him or annoys him. He's much, much better now but you really must say something, DP never realises he's doing it and he's not doing it to spite anyone either.