not to want to move room as dh doesn't like the sound of me typing

[tiredoflondonnottiredoflife]

A couple of times dh has tried to turf me out of the living room when I'm typing an email or two on my laptop because the typing sound annoys him.

Tonight, I was in there and he was in another room doing something else. I was typing an email and in there first and then he came in and said I should move to the other room he was just in to do it.

AIBU? [petty I know but I don't see why I should have to move to whichever room he isn't in]

My laptop hardly makes any noise when typing, can you find something quieter to email on.

Leave the bastard!

Seriously he can go in another room surely!

No YANBU unless you're one of those really hard irritating typers.

To be fair he asked me to use the ipad which is silent but it's so annoying to type on.

Just all seems a bit intolerant!

Oneup - yep I might be to be fair.

He may have misophonia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia

its not much fun for the sufferer!

My sister brings her laptop into the living room while everyone is watching TV, or reading, or whatever, and then complains when she is asked to leave because she is smashing typing out a Facebook status.

"Why do I have to leave, why don't you leave?" she says. Because 1) this is the room where the TV is, I can't move the TV but you can move your laptop, or 2) because I was here silently reading first, then you came along to make noise!

it really annoys me to be honest. tap tap bloody tap.

Just read up on your link Jumping, seems like I definitely have that Misophonia even if the OP's DH doesn't

Mostly it doesn't bother me, but I find if it's someone with really long nails the tapping sound can get quite annoying. Which was especially weird when i grew my nails for my wedding and started to really irritate myself...

Jumpingjack, maybe! Interesting reading.

Ah ok sounds to be fair then like he isn't really being that unreasonable and I do type more loudly than I'd perhaps realised.

Are you all on manual Olivetti typewriters or something?

Typing on a laptop is barely a whisper of a sound.

but it's such an irritating noise...

Exactly nightsky, it is a quiet persistent noise that is annoying. Full on noise is much less irritating!

Op, extra irritating points if you bash the keys in a I-Am-Very-Important way whilst wearing one of those bracelets with a big jangly item on it, which clatters repeatedly against the laptop as you type. Clack clack clack, clatter. Oooh and bonus points if you have long false fingernails which inhibit your ability to type legibly on first attempts as you insist on using your nails to press the keys with, so listening to you type would go like this:

Clackety clack clack, backspace backspace backspace, jangle clatter clang, clackety clack...

Managed to set my own teeth on edge just imagining it. If I was married to someone who typed like this I might ask them to go outside to do it...

Apparently (at least according to DH) when I am MNing my elbow makes too much noise brushing the arm of the sofa when I type on the ipad!

Purr if I were like that I'd even annoy myself. I'd also need a terribly straight back and neck and specs on a chain around my neck.

I think yabu. If your sitting room is where the TV is then it's off putting. We have a "one media only" in the sitting room and because it's mainly for the TV that one wins.

The dining room often has two computers in use at a time...that's fine.

How loudly are you all typing?!

DP wouldn't get away with moaning about this because we only live in one room so I couldn't move even if I wanted to - plus, I put up with him going on the PS3 and shooting zombies, so he can tolerate my obsessive mumsnetting!

I bet he does things that annoy you too.

I think audible typing is not compatible with watching TV or listening to music. How much notice does he give you though? Surely he can tell you he's planning to watch TV at a certain time, so you can plan what you're doing?

If he's just swanning in and out on a whim, demanding you jump to his tune, that would be annoying.

I used to work with someone who "shout typed" - it was like he was hitting the keyboard with a fucking mallet - the whole room could tell if he was angry or excited as it was "CLACK CLACK CLACK, SMASH, CLACK"

He swore blind he was typing the same as the rest of us, but it used to drive us all mad...

You may be one of these!

MIL does that shout typing....I totally think that the room with the TV in it is nor for typing.

Tiredoflondon we must have shared offices/colleagues at one point!