To be annoyed he doesn't know my phone number by heart

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Been together 6 years and we have two children (one dd and dss who lives with us full time).

It's really pissing me off that he doesn't know my mobile number, he doesn't even have it written down on anything in his wallet. What if something happened and he needed to call me but didn't have his phone?? He says that will never happen and he's never needed it before.

AIBU here???

I only know mine and my childhood/mums house phone.

I have got DH's no. on a slip of paper in my going out bag though.

@BecauseReasons Yes that’s what’s silly here . You see the irony of you using the word bully, yes? Jog on mate

My husband lost his mobile at home. The only number he knows off by heart is his grandparents' house where his mum now lives. So he called that from the landline and asked her to call him. It was under the fridge. Toddlers!

I can still rattle of the numbers for my childhood home, my best two friends, my mom's work....
All from 30 to 40 years ago.

Dh and I have been together for 20 or so years. His number has stayed the same. I can't remember it!

I don’t even know my home number 🤪

@RoLaren this happens to me a lot, I use my daughters tablet to access fb and get someone who is online to ring it 😆.

OP, can you clarify what you mean by "stranded" as I am really struggling to think of a situation arising in my day to day life where I would be anything close to "stranded"?
I have two phones (I get one from work), DP also has two phones. We both have Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc etc....so many ways to contact each other and that's before you consider using friends and family!
I just can't think of an example where knowing the other's number by heart would be useful.

I don't think there's any harm in learning your DP's number if it makes you feel better but I think you are being unreasonable to get the hump with him if he doesn't do likewise.

I know my parents home number, my grandparents number (they've been dead 15 years) and my own number.

Neither DH or I know our landline number, we only ever have one person call us on it, and its always a wrong number

No idea what my husbands number is. If I lost my phone or it broke, I’d use my Apple Watch To call him anyway so I’m not worried.

But what if a bird swooped and took your Apple Watch, you'd broken down miles from anywhere and the only person for miles was on foot, and only had a Nokia 3210. You had no note in the glove box of the breakdown service and said person with phone also had no numbers either memorised or saved ..

You do have to really stretch to imagine a situation where an adult who is conscious and in a fit state to remember a number might actually need to do so with absolutely no simple other option available lol - actually in that situation you could probably ring directory enquires. As I said it's a stretch, I failed the challenge!

We have our mobile numbers on our land-line answerphone message.

We have our mobile numbers on our land-line answerphone message.

Doesn't that give telemarketers your phone numbers though? Fraudulently obtain one telephone number, get two free?

YABU.

I only know my own by heart

I don’t remember my husband’s number so have it written down in loads of places and other people have it in their phones. The only numbers apart from my own that I remember are my friends’ parents from decades ago. This isn’t a hill to die on.

Funnily enough myself and Oh were talking about similar earlier. We don’t know each other’s numbers. I don’t think it really matters to be honest. We’ve been together 7 years and still don’t know 🤣

Jesus, how petty can you get? I just celebrated my 25th wedding anniversary and I don't know my DHs numbers off by heart and have no idea if he knows mine.

Get a hobby or something, you clearly have too much time to dwell on inconsequential shit.

I don't know DH's mobile number by heart, he doesn't know mine. I don't think people bother to learn them because their phones store them.

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Yes of course you are being U.

I do know mine, my DH and my mums mobile numbers off by heart as we've all had the same numbers for over a decade and I when I first started going out with my husband we were teenagers and although we had mobile phones they weren't as constantly used as they are now.

However I would bet my husband doesnt know mine and I dont know my own home landline number!

I can remember every significant phone number even back to my first job and home telephone number, that’s 40 and 30 years ago. I am unusual in this apparently. I also taught myself to read before I went to school. I didn’t even know about it but having read MN for years and then having students with a diagnosis I guess I’m probably autistic. I can remember my primary school teachers car number plate because she asked us in a classroom quiz so I made a mental note of it :)

Seems like your OH is perfectly regular.

My god, I don't even know MY phone number off by heart, never mind anyone else's.

In fact, the only person's I know is my dad's, because he made me learn it when I was younger and going out to play with friends - and he's had the same number for more than 20 years.

Never tried to learn anyone else's, and I never see their number or dial it, as it just comes up as their name, and I use voice command to call them.

This is definitely not worth getting worked up over.

I know my husbands, however he is self employed so his number is on the van, fliers etc which I see all the time so think it was a sub conscious learning.

OP is talking about being in an accident and finding your phone has been run over or something. At that point in time, what technology are we all supposed to be using ?

The technology that ensures all the contacts on your phone are on the internet and can be accessed from any internet device you can borrow.

OP is presumably assuming that there will be a borrowed phone from which you can dial the memorised number. I'm pointing out that if the borrowed phone is a smartphone, you don't need to have memorised the number you want to call, as you can get it off the copy of your contacts that's online.

You could also pop your SIM card in someone's phone to access contacts if it's that much of an emergency... someone in shock after being run over may well not recall a memorised number anyway.