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To just want to be in fucking kitchen?!

48 replies

QuestionableMouse · 23/04/2017 11:47

Kitchen is tiny and if you get more than one person in there you can't move. I really want to make myself a cuppa and have a bite to eat but DH is camped out in there watching shit on the telly. If I say anything it'll turn into an argument. It's always the same with him. There's a perfectly good TV in the living room for fuck's sake! He also has all of his hobby shit spread about so I'll have to move stuff before I can even get to the kettle! I've had nothing to eat yet because I've been putting the argument off when I said I wanted to be in!

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Libertybells1 · 23/04/2017 12:40

Annie it's not about the TV taking up space, it's about it encouraging her DH to hang around the kitchen unnecessarily. Obviously he is the main problem, but getting rid of the TV is something practical that might make the OP's life easier in the meantime.

VladmirsPoutine · 23/04/2017 12:41

This increasingly seems like the instance that will break the camel's back, as it were.

esiotrot2015 · 23/04/2017 12:41

He sounds a catch ....
Have you got kids ?

HerBluebiro · 23/04/2017 12:49

So why do you stay? What's his positive points?

Man doing his hobby whilst you get ready for work (who are all these people with fecking hobbies doing? Mine is watching TV- seriously I do nowt more than that! I work cook garden do my share of the chores and play with dc. What are these home based hobbies everyone does?). And he would have a strop if you asked him to put the kettle on? I can understand him being frustrated at being turfed out if he is also set up doing his hobby and he has to move it all away because you want the space for 5 minutes when you could have had breakfast at any point in the last 6 hours..... but to refuse to put on the kettle is childish in the extreme. Dp was out in the garden (lovely day for it btw) shouted through the window 'put the kettle on would you love?' Cos I was in there cleaning and do you know what? I did. It never even struck me as a thing. Dp then came through and finished off the tea making me one too. And we drank them in the kitchen then carried on.

I'd have been pissed off if dp had turfed me out to make a cup of tea cos I was in the middle of cleaning. But absolutely no drama to make a drink.

So why are you with someone who turns a basic task into a drama/fight?

InvisibleKittenAttack · 23/04/2017 12:50

Your 'D'H doesn't like you. Which is the crux of the matter, you are in a relationship with someone who dislikes you.

AmyC86 · 23/04/2017 12:50

Jesus how miserable your life must be. I couldn't live my life on egg shells like that.

Pack your bags and leave. Or alternatively, pack his bags & make him leave, taking his shite hobby and TV with him

HerBluebiro · 23/04/2017 12:53

It isn't about the TV. It never is. Moving it won't sort the problem it will only move it. And he will then strop that it has been moved (I'd be pissed off if my radio/TV/computer were moved without discussion)

DontTouchTheMoustache · 23/04/2017 12:54

How long have you been together? Do you have children? I'm trying to understand why you would live in an environment like this?

TeaQuiero · 23/04/2017 12:58

"Why, just why, would it cause an arguement for you to use your own kitchen?"

I think sometimes this is a bit of the crux of the issue in some relationships, and not understood by people not in those relationships.

I know what it's like to not be able to raise an issue. You can't ask "Can you...?" or "Might I...?" because the answer is "NO" and you get yelled at a lot. You can't 'have a talk' or 'sit him down' because doors will be slammed, you'll be personally insulted (physical appearance or personality 'flaws') and the simmering rage could last for days. Perhaps you've a holiday coming up you don't want to ruin, a day out, a dinner at the MILs.

Yes, it's walking on eggshells.

Yes, it sucks.

"Just ask" isn't an option. It really isn't, for some.

What the OP is trying to do is untangle her feelings around this; she knows that she feels a pit of dread at the very thought of entering a room, opening a drawer, because she knows the sense of danger. She knows it will be seen as an act of aggression or provocation by the other and she's reaching her limit. She is standing there knowing this is wrong, but she needs to get it out, spell it out, write it out and read it back and see others gently agree that "Yes, you are right, and he - and the situation - are wrong."

It will take time.

Good luck, OP. You know the status quo is going to change and you've taken the first steps.

QuestionableMouse · 23/04/2017 13:05

I start uni in September so I'm free then. Just need to sort my finances out and get some money saved before then. I can't live with this for much longer.

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shellhider · 23/04/2017 13:06

Is his hobby painting model soldiers?

WizardOfToss · 23/04/2017 13:07

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HappyFlappy · 23/04/2017 13:10

Dp was out in the garden (lovely day for it btw) shouted through the window 'put the kettle on would you love?' Cos I was in there cleaning and do you know what? I did

You are totally unaware of how oppressed you are Biro.

You should have left the bastard! Grin

Seriously though OP - Biro is right. It's one of these things people just do, and I'm sure you've done for him many a time. You really do need to burn his stamp collection sabotage him.

InvisibleKittenAttack · 23/04/2017 13:12

Tea's post is sadly true for some. It's the realisation that you are nervous about doing something perfectly normal .

TimelessReality · 23/04/2017 13:29

What SolidBrassGold and Amy said and what everybody said really. I would add he sounds like one of those people who enjoy an argument/power struggle. Idiot.

TimelessReality · 23/04/2017 13:30

And putting you down in the process.

QuestionableMouse · 23/04/2017 13:32

Sorry, I hate it when people post about hobbies and then don't say what they are. He's 'building a gaming computer' aka pissing about with various computer parts.

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babyboomersrock · 23/04/2017 15:30

I start uni in September so I'm free then. Just need to sort my finances out and get some money saved before then. I can't live with this for much longer

It's a shame if you feel you have to endure it that long, OP, but at least the end is in sight. I'm glad you're getting out.

frieda909 · 23/04/2017 15:37

Ugh, fuck that noise.

My ex was a bit like this. I always had to ask him to move his crap off my desk any time I had a deadline, because I wouldn't be able to get to my computer to work with all this stuff in the way. He had already covered the entire dining table and pretty much every other surface in the flat with his stuff, and I just wanted this one space clear for me to work at.

Every time it would result in a massive strop and a huge rant about how I was being unnecessarily precious about my space and how I wasn't being supportive of his hobby etc etc.

Seriously, life is too short for this crap. Tell him that you're coming in to use the kitchen for its intended purpose and that's that.

DixieFlatline · 23/04/2017 15:40

He's 'building a gaming computer' aka pissing about with various computer parts.

Any chance he's using the kitchen tap to ground himself?

Doesn't excuse his attitude towards you, obviously.

User2468 · 23/04/2017 17:41

Why have you got a TV in the kitchen? Especially if it's so tiny.

HerBluebiro · 23/04/2017 17:54

I suspect it is the height of the work tops then that he is after. Much more comfortable to work at than a table.

No excuse to throw a strop because you want breakfast. And a bit risky because of course it is a kitchen with the risk of crumbs - not helpful for most computer parts.

happy I know! I mean there I was cleaning and dp was fannying around outside (mowing the lawn which I hate doing - seriously I'd live in a meadow rather than mow. And weeding. When does gardening count as a hobby and when a chore?). Oppressed I tell ye.

QuestionableMouse · 23/04/2017 22:35

I don't think he's grounding anything on the tap. Seems to be mostly a case he's building but honestly it's been going on for weeks and is no further assembled!

I'm going to sit down with him in the morning and have a serious chat about how it makes me feel.

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