To want to mute DH?

[pomadas87]

Aaaaaarrrrgggghhhh does anyone else have a DH who is so excessively loud?! I am sitting here in a silent rage and I want to shoot him with a tranquilliser dart or something.

Disclaimer: I'm beyond irritable. I'm shattered. I'm so tired, we have 12 week old baby who I've just got off to sleep at around 8pm. We live in a tiny 1 bed flat and DH gets in from work, slams the chuffing front door and yells "helloooo darlings!". I leapt off the sofa and nearly rugby tackled him to the ground. Now, DD has been living with us for nearly 3 months now and she's not the sort of thing you forget you have at home.

Besides this he's just so excessively noisy doing any tiny task! He's drying cutlery - throws it in the draw from a height so it clatters loudly. He's putting away plates and saucepans - ONE AT A TIME so he opens and slams shut the cupboard doors eleventy billion times. He tried to get his gym kit together and knocked over a pile of washing and an airer and yelled "shitty bollocks!" about 2 feet away from where DD was sleeping.

He's currently ironing his shirt for work tomorrow making excessive use of the (very loud) steam function and watching television with the volume too high and for some reason, he's got subtitles on.

And do you know what he wanted for his last birthday (which I got for him!!) NOISE CANCELLING HEADPHONES!

.... rant over ......

I can completely understand why you're coming from!

Unfortunately he just doesn't understand as he's not at home with her all day. I'm sure it's nothing facetious, but never the less incredibly annoying and frustrating for you. You must be absolutely exhausted!

I am, Bonge, I am! [starts looking for said noise cancelling headphones]

Tell him if he wakes her up then he’s got to get her back to sleep!

I have done! Although irritatingly she hasn't woken up and doesnt seem bothered by her father crashing around the house. She must get it from him!

Ha, I also thought I loved my DH before we had kids.

Then I gave birth and DH became the most annoying person on the planet. 7 years and two kids later, we begun talking again recently, but I remember well the silent (and sometimes not-so-silent) fury provoked by him still living under the same roof while we had newborns. He has always been an exceedingly useful partner and father too, so the anger was largely unjustified.

I found that sleep deprivation and the exhausting deliciousness of life with a baby leaves few resources for others.

I love how you resent the noise and resent that it has not woken your DD up.

I hear you (no pun intended). But with the disclaimer that when I'm tired I am very sensitive to noise so everything anyone does seems somehow louder-could a bit of it be that maybe?
But yes coming in hollering would be enough for a rugby tackle or two.

Lol with you on this one. I used to get doubly itritated when MIL stayed as she is just like dh. .... i was in a permanent state of shush

Does he also smash his cutlery on his plate and scrape it so hard it removes the pattern? My friend does that among other things and has tinnitus but also works in a noisy environment so doesn't seem to be aware.

(Could his hearing be failing a bit?)

Stick a post it note on your forehead that says:
Shhhh

Does he fuck about on his phone and randomly play shit films really loudly for no reason when you’re watching tv?! I could honestly kill DH for doing that, kill him in his face

oneorgasmic yes I now detest DH since DD arrived. Even his breathing is too loud and intolerable.

And yes to playing loud videos on his phone! He says (loudly, over the din) he doesn't know how to mute it but being a 33 year old human with hands that work I find that hard to believe