...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.

I leave wardrobe doors slightly ajar. Not on purpose, I just seem to.

I also load the dishwasher 'wrong'.

I am a messy cook

I watch Jeremy Kyle while having my breakfast, he hates it.

Apparently I can't load the dishwasher properly either (managed for years before we met but hey ho)
Apparently I never shut kitchen cupboard doors. In my defense, I open them, get whatever out and because I haven't immediately closed them (even if whatever I've got out the cupboard has to go back in straight away, like the tea bag caddy) then he's standing there ready to shut them a nano second after my hand has left the handle.
I will admit I'm clumsy, can't walk through a doorway without hitting it, I might have occasionally banged my head on opened cupboard doors (see above!) and I walk into the bed on a regular basis.
However I don't think these are faults, just part of my charm!

I leave glasses of water all around the house. I don't mean to, and I use them to water plants if I don't drink them so it's not a waste.
Apparently I 'faff'. Actually this is just things like putting the washing on before we go out so it can be hung up when we get back, or checking the windows are shut.
I love sleeping with the curtains and windows open. I prefer fresh air and don't mind being woken up by the birds. He would sleep in a coffin if he could - all dark and quiet.
I never, ever know what is going on in films. I never see an (apparently obvious) plot twist coming. I fail to recognise references back to earlier in the film so miss the significance of things. And I don't really care.
I spend too much time playing around on my phone (probably the only real niggle we have...)

My hair sometimes dips in my tea/dinner/soup/whatever so I'm disgusting!
I don't tidy/clean properly (and it is all our mess, he doesn't walk on carpets/florring or make dust, or waste)
I watch the wrong things on tv
I am always late (but I'm sat in car with DC all ready while he goes back several times to collect forgotten things, check lights and gas off and door actually locked ). I know he's not doing it deliberately as his DM said he's always done it!
I mow the lawn too often, make work out of nothing (apparently only needs mowing once a year )
I clear my dirty knickers away (apparently I'm 'hiding' them)
Apparently my periods are disgusting so all trace must be cleared away! Never must there be a bit of tissue with spots on it down the loo for instance.
I could have an argument in an empty house
I'm also a delight, quite clearly!

I don't tuck my chair under the dressing table and he Stubbs his toe on it a lot

I have no sense of direction so I get lost a lot and can never remember what lane I'm supposed to be in

I start planning Christmas early - DH believes I start in August and thinks I'm mad I actually plan all year long which includes sometimes listening to the music and watching Home alone

I sometimes move things when I'm tidying up then can't remember where I put them

I sometimes talk to him through the dogs using extra strong welsh valley accents 

On the flip side, I don't kill him for pulling the blanket off me in his sleep, trying to make me early for everything and his inability to keep on top of putting his clothes away!

This is the best thread ever!!!!! I just thought it was me that had a DH like this. I'm forever doing things that piss him off, though to be fair he's equally as bad. But yes, I am unable to load the dishwasher apparently. It's worked out brilliantly as I just leave my stuff on the side and say there's no point me loading these as you'll just adjust them. Yay me.

Seriously, it really helps to know we're not alone and really unusual.

forget words ALL THE TIME. "Can you get me the thing out of the thing? You know, the thing!

THIS!

Also wash up and stack the dishes incorrectly- guess who doesn't bother washing up anymore...........?

Forgetting things ( he's apparently told me ) and me telling him off for things HE'S forgotten ( apparently I never told him I'm the first place ......)

I drum my fingers on tables, walls, car doors, books I'm reading, all sorts of things... It drives the poor man crackers, but I genuinely don't realise that I'm doing it until he tells me...

I sometimes talk to him through the dogs using extra strong welsh valley accents

This really made me laugh 

Tidy things away (I know, how dare I?) and he complains he can't find anything.

Leave lights on.

Say I don't want any of his food and then change my mind!

Call his wallet a purse. I don’t know why it bothers him. I do it without realising. My subconscious must like winding him up.

Lose things. Insist loudly I left something in a particular place and accuse him of moving it. Find it somewhere I've moved it.

Have lots of cushions.

If he leans over me for any reason - eg to close the curtains behind the sofa - I have to tickle him. He's VERY ticklish. 😁

Apparently, my washing up looks as if I have done it with a wet dog (because I don't take 3 hours and use all the hot water)
I lose things, especially when stressed
I do the scream in the car, too.

Oh, I forgot. If I leave the phone off the set thingy, even for 5 minutes, it immediately loses its charge. He can carry it round all morning...

I love this thread so much!

You lot are adorable

I get excessively emotionally invested in my dreams – I had a good cry when I woke up this morning because I realised that I did not actually own a duck. He can't handle this level of emotion pre-coffee.

I push him over when he's standing on one leg to put a sock on.

I do not believe the frying pan should live in the oven when not being used, so I move it to the cupboard with the other pots and pans and then he can't find it.

When I'm washing my hair and some strands come out and get wound around my fingers, I stick them to the wall of the shower and leave them there.

I spoon him too "aggressively" (apparently as I move in to be big spoon
I snuggle in too hard and shove him almost off the bed)

I NEVER load the dishwasher ‘properly’

Oh and whilst reading this thread and giggling to myself : ‘Are you not watching this? You’re ALWAYS on that bloody phone!’

piss about on mumsnet instead of going to bed

better go to bed now (its late in my time zone)

Put the lid back on the milk bottle when he wants to use it immediately after me. So he has to take it straight off again.

I sing .......badly .
He sings very well.
I have ruined some songs so much that he will never listen to them ever again.

I cover the bed with a load of stuff then DH has to clear it off as he often goes up before me.
He calls my car the mobile jumblesale!
Another vote for apparently not loading the dishwasher correctly
I hog the duvet
I stack my stuff on one half of one of our sofas, effectively making it an armchair. DH also has to contend with DD’s stuff on half of HIS sofa too!

Keeping a pile of old magazines in my car and bedroom. My partner hates it.

Yes... I too get whinged at for pissing about on Mumsnet. In actual act I'm an night owl who gets her second wind about 11pm. He's always up with the lark at 6am. I'm crap at getting up.

Oh & I throw food out when it’s perfectly ok. He still talks about the time not long after I moved in when I poured milk down the sink cos I thought it smelt off & he’d only bought it the day before!