DH constantly twiddling body hair

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My DH has recently developed a habit of constantly twiddling the hair on his arm/armpit/chest.
Last night my parents came for dinner and while he was talking he had his hand up his t-shirt arm and was tugging and twiddling on his underarm hair.
I've asked his to stop but he says it's a none issue but I think it is rude and a bit gross. It's fine if we are chilling out and watching TV but I don't think he should do it around other people.

AIBU or his he?

Make him wax

It's gross to twiddle armpit hair around other people, ewwwwwww

The arm wouldn't bother me, but the armpits and chest hair I would find bad enough that I would need to keep leaving the room. I also wouldn't want him to have his hand jammed under his pits and then touching things I have to touch.

In a moderate form this is a self-comforting activity. In more severe forms this can be considered a type stimming (and stimming isn't something only people with autism do).

As a self-comforting activity it can start to interfere with normal life, or start causing social problems, like your husband's now does.

Whether it's just a habit grown out of control, or a symptom of a deeper lying problem, I would gently urge him to go talk to something. It is, in a sense, a physical manifestation of a problem he's having.

*someone

My partner does this (not armpit) he does it when he has anxiety mostly and its habbit forming. As gross as it is, try not to be too harsh. Maybe set a few boundaries, aka not around the dinner table? That's grim! But I'm guessing he didn't realise he was doing it at the time.

Ugh. DH does this too but his beard/moustache. It’s the sound of the hairs grinding together I can’t deal with!