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AIBU?

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In finding my partner irritating when he does stuff like this?

61 replies

Linet · 03/04/2019 09:09

On the whole we have a good relationship, I do love him we have a lot in common and mny shared interests. But (there's always a but isn't there) some things are annoying me but I don't know if it's just me or not.

He always complains theres no food for him to eat. We don't live together but he spends most weekends at my house. I have cut out most crap from my diet so don't ever have crisps, chocolate, cake etc (as well as butter and full fat milk and cheese) in the house He moans about this and how there is nothing for him. If he buys his own stuff and my teen DC eat it (not realising it's his special food) he gets the right hump. Ditto if we're out and he says 'is there bread at home' and I say yes (because there was when I last checked) but when we return home there's barely any, or none. That's my fault.

He criticises my driving a lot, I'm either too hesitant or drive too fast.

He's never happy with how much quality time we spend together or our sex life. He refuses to have sex at my house because of my DC being there. However as he's away in the week with work it means I would have to travel to where he works/ stays which I've said I dont want to do (as I only have 1 free eve in the week and like to spend it with my DC) so thats me wanting it all on my terms apparently.

He can say things to me as a joke and tell me to lighten up if I don't llfind it funny. Yet if I say anything vaguely critical to him he gets mortally offended (last month he didn't send his DM a card/ present for her birthday as he was busy...I said partly in jest that didnt make him a good son. He had a proper huff and kept on about it for days).

Aibu to find this stuff annoying? There's other minor things like he's quite messy, and doesn't care for practical stuff (like at the weekend if I say I need to do housework he'll be po faced because he wants to go out and do things...and he'll never help really either aside from stuff he likes such as cooking. But I still have to ĺwash up).

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purplelass · 03/04/2019 11:50

You're defending him an awful lot, so it sounds like you're prepared to put up with all the bad stuff you listed whatever anyone says.

Which makes me wonder why you bothered posting this in the first place... Hmm

Hearhere · 03/04/2019 11:51

He's trying to have his cake and eat it when it comes to being at your place, he wants all the rights that he'd get if it was his own home but he doesn't want any of the responsibilities

NoSquirrels · 03/04/2019 11:58

If he didn’t work away during the week , or have his own place, and lived with you FT, would you be together?

In a house where you never had sex, always did all the practical domestic shitwork, and tidied up after his messes, where your teens ate ‘his’ food and you were always to blame for it, where if you went out you were always driving ‘wrong’, where he got in huffy sulks...

I mean - surely it only works because he’s not around much!

user1480880826 · 03/04/2019 12:27

Sounds like he’s lived by himself/been single for a long time and doesn’t understand how relationships work. He sounds quite childish and also very touchy and can’t take criticism.

I wouldn’t put up with him.

Linet · 03/04/2019 12:55

Thats interesting- he was only single for about 6 months before we met, that and since are the only times he has ever lived on his own. He says he feels quite isolated/ alone now but then many aspects of being in my home seem to annoy him so I'm not sure what the solution is if we want to work this out.

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Hearhere · 03/04/2019 13:05

I think his reaction when you dare to joke that he's not a good son is very telling, as if his relationship with his mother is a sacred thing and you're not allowed to joke about it

SurgeHopper · 03/04/2019 13:06

Sounds hard work tbh

minmooch · 03/04/2019 13:36

It really shouldn't be this hard. You say the good weighs out the bad but it sounds like the scales are only slightly in the good bit.

It should be much easier than this. He needs to provide food for when he is at yours, for a start.

I couldn't be bothered with it if I were you. A relationship has to work for both of you and it seems like this one isn't really working for either of you.

Not really bad enough to leave yet is it good enough to live with? Life is too short for this short change of a relationship.

GabriellaMontez · 03/04/2019 13:45

Does he know that adults continue to have sex when their dc are teenagers. Just quietly or in the night?!

I'd not be driving him if he was criticising my driving. Why doesn't he drive?

If he's over most weekends he should being some snacks every time. Sounds like he's the one who wants it both ways.

Just couldn't be bothered with him.

YesimstillwatchingNetflix · 03/04/2019 13:46

What kind of a grown man sulks about food? He cant just politely eat what your family eats when he is staying with you? He wants his own 'special' food and doesn't think he should share it. I'd find it very easy to not have sex with him after that.

He's dating a mother will teenage kids, but he is acting like a stroppy 19 year old in his first sharehouse. Labelling food indeed!!

recrudescence · 03/04/2019 13:52

He could strap some snacks to his body so your kids couldn’t get at them.

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