To be petty, immature and a bit of a cow (lighthearted)

[jammyjay]

Soooooooooo, had a fairly public row with DP jus now. He's in a mood because DS's bike is broken and he couldn't fix it and DS (2) was reacting negatively after being promised something only for it to be taken away. And because I was a little slow totally faffed leaving flat we missed the bus. Then because I said I'd wanted to wait at the bus stop (for 11mins) and not by the playground (I pre-empted possible carnage when wanting to leave) he called me stupid and irresponsible for wanting to wait at a by a bus stop with a toddler!
So I left them both at the bus stop and went stropped off home. And did the following:
Hid both TV remote controls
Hid some newly bought vinyl
Detuned ALL his guitars

I am 41 and 26 weeks pregnant. Although I would have done this anyway!

Does anyone do such petty things to get back at OHs? If so, share please.
Or is it just me?

Hell yes- changing the wifi name to "stop being a twunthorse" is normal, right? 😂

I feel a bit sorry for anyone who's ever "dreamed" of behaving like a spoilt child. Try talking to each other, and behaving, like actual grown ups it'll make your relationships far easier.

Just you - very petty and I'm sure if he had done the equivalent to you, it wouldn't be so hilarious

I love your probable hormonal irrational and completely unreasonable reaction

I know this is meant to be light hearted but if anyone fucked my stuff up ie detuning the guitars I'd be fucking livid and I'd make them pay to have them retuned. Hiding the remote controls is no big deal but the guitars is a step too far. You don't sound 41 and I don't mean that as a compliment.

Er...you do know that every string instrument has to be retuned by the player each time you play it? It's called 'tuning up'. It's a basic. It'll take him about two minutes maximum each time.

OP you both sound really high maintenance.

Erm, good luck with your third child...

It's not like a piano. She just loosened the strings a bit. If he can't tune up his own instruments he's not exactly a serious player.

Am rofling at the idea of paying someone to retune them professionally.

My username is a reference to a potty training thread (yes,poo related)
I'm not 14 but I was 17/18 at the time
I also have many poo related stories so I would say I am mildly amused at poo stories

I always find my dh being nice better revenge as he worries that I have done something or know something that will negatively impact on him. Also find with work being super nice when my boss is being a moody cow irritates more but how can anyone pull you up for being nice 👍

That's going too far JonSnow.

My SD mug is like my comfort blanket. I cannot process the cruelty.

Yabu.

Why create unnecessary stress within your relationship?

I'm too lazy for all that - love an easy life me!

Saucy do you drink the whole cup? If so then you carry on with your massive mug without any judgement from me

He was an idiot with it & wasted far too much milk on teas that he didn't drink & left it laying around in stupid places, like when it took the accidental tumble, I'd just found it on the back of the loo 🙄 I regret nothing

Childish and spiteful. You lost me with all the strike throughs anyway.

Yes, I'll be the first to admit that my behaviour was childish and petty! But me, high maintenance?! Never been called that before. Maybe I am.

Also takes moments to retune a guitar!

I'm sure if he decides to do the same to your stuff, it will be fine then? Not the best example to set as a parent...

Plus rowing in the street is very classy

@seminormal if you need to pay someone to retune your guitars you shouldn't be playing guitar surely?!

Ha, I used to de tune my dads guitars all the time or move stuff around in his music room! Tbf, I only ever did it, if he'd done something equally annoying or very occasionally just to mess with him.
Never done it to my boyfriend though.

To the poster concerned about re tuning.....it's pretty straight forward and anyone playing guitar will know how to tune one.

Dh insulted my cooking in front of my family. When we returned home I took out all the meals I had prepped for the week and chucked them. I then refused to cook until he apologized - he and dd lived on takeaways for a fortnight before he said sorry

YABU but laughing all the same

I don't do petty revenge but I sometimes wish I did

My husband had to borrow my car as he shit heap had broken down again. I had told him to get rid of dais shit heap about a million times.

Do you think I was going to let him enjoy my car? I put a Celine Dion cd in the CD player and tuned every single radio station preset into classic fm. Oh then turned the volume up full blast before I handed him my car keys.

It was a moment of joy for me when I saw him set off to work that morning, trying to get rid of shite music.

Hmm, I once chucked my DH glasses (£400) in the black outside bin because they were reactor light ones (and made him look like a paedo). I felt pure joy that they were gone for good.

My dh is a lazy bugger in the mornings. It doesn't usually piss me off, but it did one morning when I was particularly busy. I made a pot of coffee. When he didn't get up, I poured the rest of it out and moved the coffee so it looked like there was none left.

Very immature, but I was pretty pleased with myself

I may have possibly been known to punch his crisp packets so they were all broken up when he is being an arse not to mention the time when I soaked his tabacco in water and of course I never flick the V's at his back.