...to ask what things you do that annoy your partner? (lighthearted)

[ThistleAmore]

I'll start:

I never clean out the cats' litter trays (in spite of the fact that I was the one who wanted the cats in the first place) and I never take my turn at washing up.

@GoldenBuns to be fair that should be punishable by DEATH though. Do you also ruck up the surface of it and leave it with big gouges out of it rather than all lovely and smooth?!

pandarific - maybe... .

Can I just add that DH has been known to leave garlic in the butter from when he's been cooking? Garlic marmalade on toast is vile shifts blame nicely.

I bring my Tupperware home from work dirty. He insists that he cleans his in work. One day someone offered to rinse my soup pot out after lunch, I refused. Told them DP enjoys doing it too much.

I complain I’m cold. Mostly just for fun. He’s a hot person, struts around in shorts.

I have 3 alarms in the morning.

I snore.

He really is the luckiest man alive

I don't clean my car ever and he does it when he can stand it no longer

I put recycling in a pile on the worktop so I have a few items before I take it to the bin outside

I rush him

I forget to sugar his coffee frequently

I serve meals without meat on occasion

I buy mugs when we already have 4 million

I breathe

I leave my hairbrush on the shelf under the mirror instead of on the windowsill where it apparently belongs.

I underseason pretty much everything I cook.

I leave stuff on the side, directly above the dishwasher.
I make the kids tidy their stuff away, and then no-one remembers where it is when I am at work.
I always get us where we need to be waaaay too early.
I absolutely insist on using the tumble dryer for every item that it can be used for, even in the summer.
I constantly remind everyone that they don't look after things to my standards.
I'm an absolute joy, clearly.

I'm lazy with low standards when it comes to housework. I have a "that'll do" attitude to everything whereas he is a perfectionist.

Really interesting to read how many of these are done “on purpose”

On all the threads which say what lazy so and sos people’s DHs are this stuff always comes up - doing the dishwasher wrong etc. And they’re always totally admonished for it.

Wonder what would happen if the DHs came on and said they did all that just to annoy their partner....

I don't know really. I know it winds him up when I come down in the morning and empty the dishwasher, wash the dishes, wipe down work tops etc. Apparently I should sit and a drink a cup of tea first surrounded by all the jobs and mess 🤔. Nice and relaxing. I've got a long list of things he does to wind me up tho! I don't go out of my way to annoy him, the same as him. We just like things differently.

Love this thread

I only ever half finish cups of tea.

Im always either too hot or too cold.

If we eat out, I make him say what he is ordering first because he always chooses food I didnt know I wanted until I knew he was ordering it.

I buy lots of plants even though I am terrible at keeping them alive.

I have a very people-heavy job so when I come home I dont really want any human interaction... until he's JUST falling asleep and then I will fancy a chat.

I never put lids on things tightly enough.

I don't stress if the (for example!) last slice of ham goes off and needs throwing away.

I wash the dishes 'wrong'. He is unable to say what exactly I do wrong, but apparently I'm not very good at it!

Letting the toddler eat her morning snack in the living room on the new sofa and carpet because I want to watch This Morning ☺️

I have quick poos which means when I nip off to the toilet for one he doesn't have time to read a long form article or a bit of his book. He'd much rather I had ridiculous 20-minute jobbies like him.

I take ages to chop herbs. I've been freed from this particular responsibility in my role as sous chef.

I'm super efficient and not a dawdler so when we're trying to get out of the house and DH is going for one last wee, looking for his keys, checking the taps etc., it pisses him off that I'm stood by the front door impatiently.

And like other PPs, he finds me a nightmare to watch TV/films with.

I'll always point out inconsistencies and ridiculous plot-lines, especially when they involved women (for example, women running away from a potential axe-murderer still wearing stilettos or women waking up in the middle of the night with a full face of slap and perfect hair).

I leave bread crumbs in the bed (his side)
I scream out loud when I think he’s not seen THAT CAR that is going to hit us.
I just eat grapes directly from the bunch and leave the skeleton branch
I wipe my hands on my trousers when cooking instead of wearing an apron

Be cheerful in the morning.

I spring out of bed at around 5:40, jump in the shower, put the kettle on, put breakfast stuff out, get clothes for youngest SD and then wake them all up with a cheerful good morning at about 6:15

My girlfriend then fixes me with a look of death as she slowly accepts reality. Youngest SD (4) has usually crept into bed with her in the meantime and very much takes after her mum in this - and now imitates her death stare very well at this point.

SD8 is luckily a little better and manages something in the realms of a smile. The girl's dad, who moved out a bit over 3 years ago, was always already at work before the rest of the house got up so I think she finds having a cheerful person around in the morning a novelty still (even though I've lived there nearly two years.)

I have learned to tone it down a notch at least until the gf's had a bit of the coffee I've made. Because I don't want to die. :)

Snore, need to be early for everything, and leave the washing up for AGES in the hopes that he'll do it.

I criticise him for constantly breaking our two cars through not being careful (totally avoidable things)
I twist things in arguments to mess with his mind
I'm never wrong
I won't leave the house without making sure all the doors are locked
I pay too much mind to my parents' opinions
I'm domineering
I don't do as much for him as he does for me (insert incredulous jaw dropped face here)
I don't do things for his benefit that he would do for mine...

Sorry I know this was meant to be a light hearted thread but we've just had an argument so I got a full array of ammo to fill this thread up with, straight from the horses mouth.

"We" are struggling through night weaning 18month old DD. She's getting the idea now after two weeks, she still wakes up just as much as she always has done but now she will have a cuddle and a rock and back to sleep instead of a feed. I am getting nearly no sleep, but think consistency is the key and just keep it up til she gets the message. He gets in from work at 5am, and is then disturbed by her waking (for the thirty seconds it takes me to go to her room and shut our door) til I get up with her anyway at seven.

He says I should go and sleep on the floor in her room til she works through it. To benefit who? I ask. She will not sleep better if I'm a metre away or ten houses down the road! She wants to be latched onto my boob, where I am unless its there is irrelevent. I will obviously be buggared sleeping on her floor in a sleeping bag. So who does it benefit? HIM. Well I told him to fuck that for a game of soldiers. He says he would do it for me.

He also says that I should stop trying to night wean her and just put her back in my bed and let her feed all night as per up to now. Again, not to benefit her (she will have to go through the upset of the night weaning all over again in a few months when I can't take the broken co sleeping nights anymore), not to benefit me (at least now I get a few hours on the trot, was getting NO sleep with her in bed as she cried every single time she fell asleep and dropped my nipple), but to benefit HIM. Well FUCK THAT. He's barely even here at night.

Am fuming, sorry for getting it all out... and breathe

@HarrietKettleWasHere we could have been separated at birth  I can not tolerate anything that isn't right in films/TV. I question everything from start to finish. I often get "can we for once just ENJOY THE FILM PLEASE" 

I can't cook meat.

I drink too much.

I'm very lazy and could sleep all day.

I always forget to bring home vital things from the supermarket.

I fake tan on Thursdays.

I can't park the car and have hit it 3 times.

I take far too long deciding what to choose from the menu when we eat out.

I'm constantly losing my keys and purse.

I leave shoes everywhere.

I let the petrol run low in the car.

I moan at him for having his headphones on too loud.

I hate his country music and roll my eyes at it.

Insist on being early / on time for things

Mutter under my breath instead of having a row

I am terrible with money, (he is amazing at saving)
I don't clear the table straight after eating I like to sit and chill for a bit before I tidy up (which means he always does it because he cant stand to leave them unwashed or not in the dishwasher) haha
I am always cold so therefore he is always hot because I put the heating on
I never clean my car

I have to be early for everything (I'm surprised how much this has come up!)
I put sharp things (old folders etc) in bin bags which then rip a hole. I don't do it that often but when I do he goes mental!
I shuffle around in my sloppy slippers, it drives him BONKERS