Interesting how one persons relationship happy is another's 'WTF are you doing get of me!'

[HoneyDragon]

So on the Facebook a series of pictures keep cropping up with the caption

Happiness in a couple's life, summed up in these drawings that remind us that it's a lot easier than we think it is!

You don't always have to do great things to be happy!

I looked them and rather than go "aaaw yeah",I was more "nope!"

He looks like he's giving her the Heimlich manoeuvre.

That's not just a hug in the first picture, he is suggesting she stops cooking so he can take her up the oxo tower.

She looks really zonked on valium. He looks really angst-ridden. They both look as if they haven't been allowed to leave the horrendously decorated House of Doom for the last 15 years. Why are the living room walls black!? Why does it have a pub table and an "On Air" sign?

The first one annoys me intensely. .. if I'm cooking (which I personally find therapeutic ) I don't want my partner to irritate me whilst I'm doing something. As for shaving him..... at 33 he's quite capable of doing that himself!

Number 3 is OK, but we're more likely to be on our laptopsite, doing some co-op game

Anyone grabbing me from behind while I'm chopping shit is liable to end up with knife sticking out of their eyeball b

How is it ok to wake someone up, whose snoozing after reading a book? Especially with no cup of tea in his hand.

I'd run him out the room.

DH has requested we get a bar stool in the kitchen so he can sit and talk at me while i drink wine cook. I have said no way. So he just follows me round about a foot behind me telling me something that makes me need more wine. Occasionally blocking a cupboard that i need to open till i nod and say something other than get the fuck out of my way and leave me alone

The couple on the sofa one actually scares me. Looks like they're trapped in some kind of Eli Roth scenario

I would be paying no more attention to this than I would the other slow 'dancing' hillbilly couple on facebook; both very creepy

I think those pictures look creepy.
Get the fuck off me indeed.

We don't touch each other in the kitchen since my husband didn't hear me come in, and when I touched him, he jumped and sliced his finger with the knife he was holding.

I've got one like that MrsKoala.
There is a reason that the kitchen is a separate room. Fuck that open plan shit.
You need this apron MrsK

Many people seem to think this is what a relationship should be like.

Definitely not me. I could NOT cope with being pawed at and handled all the time. I need space! Would I shave my husbands face? No. Would I let him shave my legs/underarms/Vag, HELL no.

pipbin - i really do, but dh would have a sad face on if i wore that. He can't understand why i don't want to be talked at when i'm cooking, or reading, or watching something, or on the toilet, or thru the door to the toilet when i push him out and tell him to eff off.

When we bought our house everyone said 'ooooh why not knock it thru and go open plan?' Fuck. No. I need doors. Doors that close.

My mum actually stabbed my dad once in the kitchen. She turned quick and he was too close. dad still says it all hurt but mum maintains he was too near her and wont apologise (this was 42 years ago)

Oh you bunch of miserable buggers. Too cool to hug indeed

If you look at the sofa one, it looks like there is a massive kitchen knife above them. Just waiting...just waiting...
Chop!

I don't object to a hug when I'm not using blades, blunt instruments or fire.

All of those pictures make me think mostly what Soupy said.

I agree with the message but awful pictures. Do they live in a squat?

When we were teenagers a friend was allowed to turn his parents spare room into a hang-out den. He painted the walls and ceilings black. the only furniture was a load of black sofa cushions on the floor. We used to sit in there smoking dope. We were about 18.

This is supposed to be aspirational for adults?

I think it's meant to be a trendy loft.

If not he's trying to scare her into falling out an open window and plummeting to her death in one picture

DH swooped on me the other day to give me a kiss.

Awwwww I hear you all say.

But I was eating my breakfast at the time and had a mouthful of toast. I mumbled "Gerroff" in slightly narked tones and he went all hurty-faced. There followed a heated debate about appropriate times to kiss/hug someone (NO HUGS while I'm cooking; NO KISSES while I'm eating etc) and he still maintains I was unreasonable/

I am NOT. I am Very Reasonable in the face of Utter Irritation. IMO.

When you were eating?

no hate that. I'm like a lion with a fresh kill if someone tries to touch me when I'm eating.

These pictures make me feel nervous and irritable. The people seem to have no idea of personal space and they look ill. My DH would have me sectioned if I tried to shave him.

This couple need to learn to maximise time e.g. he shaves while she cooks otherwise how are you supposed to get owt done?

blueturtle you should marriage counsel them