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AIBU?

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To be annoyed about DH's carelessness?

138 replies

YearlyFloralMug · 04/01/2016 00:48

DH does very little around the house but whenever he decides to do something he'll do job, make a big thing about it, but make loads of big mistakes or just be generally careless, which inevitably means I have to pick up the slack and sort it out. He is also very messy and leaves stuff everywhere yet whenever he does anything he'll put my stuff in obscure places or bin things of mine. He then always laughs it off and is never apologetic.

I am highly fucked off tonight as he had a 'sort out' today and took the christmas cards down. On our mantelpiece,tucked away at the back, which was and still IS full of stuff he's put there, there was an envelope with my name on it containing some money a relative gave me on Xmas day. DH was fully aware that the envelope contained money and that I was going to use it in town tomorrow when the kids are at school.

He has only gone an fucking binned the envelope and the money. It's currently in our filthy wheelie bin in a full bin bag from the kitchen bin. What's fucked me off even more is that he laughed about it and seems to expect that I will go and hunt through the fucking bin tomorrow to retrieve it, rather than him sorting it out. I am fuming! And upset! He didn't put away or move any of the stuff he's left laying around but the one thing I'd put on there, which he KNEW was money, he has binned.

If he does laundry he will do a dark load and somehow put a new white bra or something of mine in with it so it gets ruined. He's tumbled dried tops and jeans of mine and ruined them. He's thrown away make up and things from my dressing table as he 'thought they were rubbish'. Like I said, he hardly ever does anything in the house anyway.

AIBU to be fuming? If he doesn't retrieve it I am just going to spend the money from our joint account anyway I have decided.

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Leelu6 · 04/01/2016 17:10

Agree that it's deliberate and, as Thumbs says, there may not be money in the envelope anymore.

I would be livid at this manchild.

Please don't let him get away with this behaviour.

LineyReborn · 04/01/2016 17:20

When you pull a person like this up on their behaviour, though, they say stuff like, 'Wow, you're overreacting to a simple mistake!' and 'Jesus, calm down, I was only trying to help. Sorry my help isn't good enough for you ... Jeez... ' etc etc.

It gets turned back onto you.

Because they are being manipulative. It's not a 'fair fight' iyswim.

Sedona123 · 04/01/2016 17:57

I think that it all sounds very deliberate. You really need to speak to him and tell him that his behaviour is not at all ok. If anything, he is a role model to your DC's. Do you want them growing up thinking that that is the way that people behave, either in a relationship, or even with friends? You are also a role model to your DC's, and they will be learning from you that that is the way DH's treat their DW's, and DW's just put up with it.

Horsemad · 04/01/2016 18:54

Cocktail Queen - were you quoting me in your post of 09:13, because I don't think I said anything about putting valuables out of the way.

Are you confusing me with someone else?

BabyGanoush · 04/01/2016 19:01

How can anyone live with a partner like this?

These threads depress me

Just coming on here to say his behaviour is spiteful, petty and mean.

Getting the money out of the joint account? Whoopdedoo big deal

Why do people live with fuckers like this Angry

Whatdoidohelp · 04/01/2016 20:15

That is spiteful nasty behaviour. He is trying to show you he is the boss and in control. For me that is an absolute deal breaker. Imagine how much worse it is going to get Confused

CocktailQueen · 04/01/2016 23:18

So sorry, Horsemad, that should have been to daisychain01

I'd put any valuables out of harm's way in future, sounds like he has form for cocking things up.

Daisychain01, really?? Is that how you should live with your husband? I don't think so.

OP, he sounds awful - and this is deliberate. How long has it been going on? What's he like with the dc's stuff?

Horsemad · 04/01/2016 23:28

No probs CocktailQueen! Smile

TillyandFlo · 07/01/2016 09:45

You've got to the point that anything DH says or does will annoy you and you believe there is a reason why he is trying to annoy you - hopeless but not all DH fault - discuss fixing it or break up. Nothing I read indicates he's a bad person - he's as annoyed with you as you are with him

OnlyLovers · 07/01/2016 10:39

Sorry, what, Tilly? Are you reading the right thread?

Why does the DH have a right to be annoyed? How is not all his fault? He doesn't do anything in the house. He throws away things of the OP's and then 'laughs it off' when she objects. He has carefully NOT put away or moved anything that belongs to him, but has thrown something away that a) belongs to the OP and b) contains money and 'laughed about it'.

Do these really sound like the actions of a good or nice person?

Have a word with yourself.

Elendon · 07/01/2016 10:59

I'm with those who say it's done out of spite/deliberate behaviour.

He's not a caring man. And you shouldn't echo his behaviour either.

TillyandFlo · 07/01/2016 12:05

If every time I did anything (cook, clean ext) my partner told me it wasn't good enough (read original post onlylovers) I would not go in any bin whether it was my fault or not. Reading the original post not the narrow rants you've got two people who are activity trying to piss the other one off, some of the time deliberate - sometimes not. It's not about the money or the bin...........

OnlyLovers · 07/01/2016 12:13

I have read it, Tilly, thanks all the same. He does the washing wrong, throws away things from the OP's dressing table, puts things in weird places –that is, when he can actually shift himself to do anything in the house at all.

How is the OP trying to piss him off?

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