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To ask what little things your partner does that niggle the hell out of you!!

205 replies

DannyOD · 22/10/2018 16:57

(Lighthearted!!). Whenever my dh makes toast or a sandwich he always puts it on a whacking great dinner plate instead of a tea plate and for some reason it annoys the hell out of me!!!

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Helpmemyhairisterrible · 22/10/2018 22:38

Mine does all the stuff mentioned, but the worst thing is arguing with me. About everything. Makes me want to murder him. Fucking smartarse. It was bins this morning. If he puts them in front of the house, the binmen invariably put them back so it's hard to get cars in. Just leave the fucking things in front of the neighbours house. He's in Spain, he doesn't mind and he doesn't have to stop the car on the main road in the rain to move the bastard things before he parks the car. Arse.

LeavesAFallin · 22/10/2018 22:43

Talks to me whilst yawning so I have no idea what he is saying

Speaks to me from a different room so again I have no idea what he is saying

Hangs towels outside bathroom so there aren't any when I get out of shower

Otterseatpuffinsdontthey · 22/10/2018 22:43

Every night pair of socks left on floor next to bed Angry
Dirty clothes left wherever AngryAngry
Drinking straight from milk/fruit juice carton AngryAngryAngry
Pee on bathroom floor/toilet seat left up AngryAngryAngryAngry
He is my ex Halloween Grin

Severide08 · 22/10/2018 22:54

HostessTrolley oh i am so with you on that .My DH smacks his lips and slurps his drinks .Irritates me beyond belief I can't stand the noise Angry.

feelsicksicksick · 23/10/2018 00:07

He puts the recycling on the side in the kitchen, instead of getting a fucking carry a bag or something and putting it in the utility room! It pisses me off!

adoggymama · 23/10/2018 00:19

(Not lighthearted)
Talks constantly about work and interrupts me all the time to talk about work.

Tells me how to do things 'better'.

Does the most stinky farts I've ever come across in my life.

I love him to pieces though.

ThoughtForFood · 23/10/2018 00:36

Drapes his wet towels on the bed. On my side. Angry

Will not consider my suggestions until some other member of his family tells him exactly what I have said. Once they have told him, it’s a wonderful idea.

Refuses to use a calendar and tell me when he is on call and will be late home.

‘Takes annual leave’ and completely forgets to cancel commitments and meetings so he ends up going in half of his days off.

I’m astonished he isn’t under the patio at this point.

LegallyBrunet · 23/10/2018 00:42

Is forever losing his keys even though I bought a fucking key holder for the house.
Refuses to admit when he’s wrong.
If I’m cooking, he’ll hover over me giving me advice instead of just letting me fucking cook.
He never actually tidies, just reorganises the mess.
I love him ❤️

JellieEllie · 23/10/2018 00:42

Eats loud.
Every meal or snack there is lip smacking, sucking, kissing noises, squelching, loud gulping, crunching, heavy mouth breathing.

I fucking hate it. I can hear him eating even if he's in a different room.

Ilovecookiedough · 23/10/2018 00:50

My husband does pretty much every single thing that has been mentioned so far, but the one that annoys me the most is his inability to use a tissue for his nose. In fact he refuses to. Instead he picks his nose, gets the snot and rolls it between his fingers into a ball and then drops or flicks it. His finger is up his nose pretty much all the time when he's at home, he can't stop himself, in fact he even does it in his sleep!! Funny he doesn't do it out in public, so he knows he's doing it!!!! Honestly it makes me so angry, not least because our toddler and 1 year old have started to copy him. I was making the bed last week and there were snot crumbs on his pillow (our bedding is white, how lovely). How the hell do you stop a 35 year old man picking his nose (and flicking it?)??

Pretty sure I'm living with an animal, more fool me.

NarcolepticOuchMouse · 23/10/2018 00:56

Leaves mugs and the like balanced over the edge of the worktop...I'm on my second tea cup set.

NarcolepticOuchMouse · 23/10/2018 01:01

Ooooh just thought of another, talks to me whilst facing the opposite direction so I have no clue what he's actually saying. Drives me mad. He also laughs loudly in his sleep but that one is more puzzling than annoying.

Defender90 · 23/10/2018 01:01

Sock doughnuts & microwaving beans with cheese in them.

JellieEllie · 23/10/2018 01:04

Remembered another.

He smells his fingers. Fuck knows why but he does it ALL the time even after I have mentioned it he just denies it and says "no I don't". Even when he's literally just done it I'll say "you've just smelled your finger again"
"No I never" 😡
Examples of this are; in a clothes shop, will touch fabric then smell finger. Takes off socks, smells finger. Picks up tv remote, smells finger. Scratches balls, smells finger.

Its weird.

attentionspan · 23/10/2018 01:47

Some years ago I was in a pub with several friends and one of them had been having girlfriend trouble, on and off, for some time.

He looked me in the eye, and said "You're a woman. What do women want????!!!!"

At the time, (not really knowing exactly what he'd done to annoy his gf on that particular occasion) I said I wasn't sure, but I definitely know now - I'd just point him in the general direction of this thread Grin

foxyliz26 · 23/10/2018 02:09

when I was married everything he did especially breathing , snorrning farting , then turning that into a Dutch oven and laughing about it

then one G/F used to whistle very early in the morning , another ex G/F a veggie invited me for dinner , she had made curried Brussell Sprout !
needless to say that didn't last long

thankfully I have the most perfect woman ever , we might be two crusty old lesbians , but we are happy as two pigs in muck

NarcolepticOuchMouse · 23/10/2018 03:02

@Jellie Mine does the finger smell thing too!!

aidelmaidel · 23/10/2018 03:04

Loads the dishwasher till it's full but doesn't run it

Gets his fucking knob out when he's going for a piss as soon as he gets up off the sofa. Drives me insane. There is no need to walk across the sitting room and down the hall with your willy flapping in the breeze.

Powerless · 23/10/2018 03:11

@JellieEllie Film him! Then show him.

That is horrendously disgusting though.... Hugely unattractive 

Powerless · 23/10/2018 03:12

@Ilovecookiedough I'm sorry but he sounds utterly revolting? Going by how you describe him? I could not ever be sexually attracted to someone like that? 

tryingtobemybestme · 23/10/2018 04:53

Chewing. With. His. Mouth. Open.

oh and putting rubbish next to the bin but not in it.

Oysterbabe · 23/10/2018 04:58

Loads the dishwasher and doesn't turn it on.
Leaves half a teaspoon of something and puts it back in the fridge.
Faffs when we're trying to go out.

crispysausagerolls · 23/10/2018 10:36

I usually hope slamming wardrobe doors shut and singing “Cinderelly Cinderelly night and day it’s Cinderelly” as I pick up his socks would do the trick but apparently not.

This really made me laugh

PawPawNoodle · 23/10/2018 10:44

Uses the washing up sponge to scrub down the kitchen surfaces. It makes me want to SCREAM we have perfectly good cloths for this exact purpose, you imbecile!

Collywobbles1984 · 23/10/2018 15:22

We've got one of those huge kitchen lights that takes anything up to 10 seconds to register you've flipped the switch before it comes on. I tell DH EVERY NIGHT when I put it on to LEAVE IT ON, with 3 kids I'm in and out of there all evening for various reasons. Every time I go in there, he's turned the bloody light off, so I'm wasting 10 seconds of my life countless times every evening! He argues that he's saving the planet, but the energy it takes to turn it on every single time I go in there adds up far more than just leaving the bloody thing on!
Other things include nose picking whilst sat next to me watching tv so it's all I can see out of the corner of my eye, not putting hand towels back neatly so they get damp and smelly, using the loo and not wiping his splashes/dribble/ginger pubes, taking up at least 2/3rds of the bed whilst snoring and spluttering all over me!