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???

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Damn cat. Corrected all the spelling mistakes but not the number

Are you serious? First world problems

At a pre-school group I run we ask for an emergency contact number in case the parent/carer is taken ill. Nearly everyone has to get out their phone to find the number.

I knew DH's old one, it came in handy once when we got separated in th hi st and my phone battery died in Asda and I asked the security guard to call him and reeled off the mobile number. Then he emo cheated on me and I made him change his number and I didn't bother memorising his new one.

Just asked DH to recite mine. He said “look, there’s no need to know it!” He’s right.

I dont remember any mobile numbers but oddly can still recite the landline of my boyfriend from 1979. I have got a list of all my important numbers folded up in my phone case for dead phone emergencies as I realised that I would be screwed if away from home and it packed up. The reason we dont remember then is that we dont usually input the number as we used to as it's programmed in.

I only have room in my brain for one mobile number - mine! If I had to remember DH's too, I'd have to lose some other information first, such as my own name

I don't know my dh's and he's had the same number for at least 15 years.

I know my own number because I've had it for 10 years. My second phone I don't. Don't know DPs. Still remember the landline of my childhood home, my best friend from secondary school and the local taxi firm from 20 years ago though!

I know the number for the local mini cab firm by heart as they've been there for 30 years. Still useful as they're cheaper than Uber.

Still can't wrap my head around this.

I think we should be teaching everyone, including our children, an important emergency number just in case. I don't understand why you wouldn't.

Nah mate

I don;'t know partner of 6 years number, but he is my ice call. that will do. Bizarrely i know my little sister's, but she has had it for 20 years.

Does no one have the fear that one day you will be stranded and need to know a significant others phones number? Sorry this baffles me.

As someone who moved to the UK at 22 and spent the next 13 years single and living alone, I got fairly used to the idea that there was no-one to phone if I was "stranded." I mostly think this is how it's supposed to be, for adults, anyway. Surely the option of a rescuer to phone is something for children?

To get back to the question, I don't know how things work in iphone world, but all my Android/Windows contacts are automaticaully duplicated in the cloud in Google contacts, so if I have access to a borrowed smartphone, or any internet connected computer, I can look up any of my numbers.

So there's definitely no need to memorise numbers.

My Dad worked for the Emergency Services we were encouraged to learn numbers by rote as youngsters. I still know a lot of important numbers incase of an emergency including all family members. I’d slip a credit card size written list in purse or wallet if I was unable to memorise them.

I think we should be teaching everyone, including our children, an important emergency number just in case

I have. 999.

I dont even know my mums number by heart. Yabu

YABU.
We've been married over 25 yrs.
I must have written dh's number on forms (for schools, for cub camps etc etc etc) literally hundreds of times, but I still don't remember it. Just don't have a memory for that type of thing. I have to keep a photo of our car registrations on my phone so I can input them into the supermarket parking thing.

If it is any help, I can remember our home phone number from my childhood ?

I think we should be teaching everyone, including our children, an important emergency number just in case.

Before they had phones, all mine had memorised both mine and dh's numbers. My dc have a lot less 'stuff' to be carrying about in their memory than I do though.

I don't know anyone's number..... when I was a kid I knew everyone's number off by heart but nope, not since everyone has a mobile

I'm surprised that I'm the first person on this thread to point out that losing your phone doesn't mean having no access to your contacts. (Unless it does for some people? In which case you should probably have a think about how well you are using your technology.)

I don't know DH's number nor either of my DC's. I know all my old land line phone numbers from 40 years ago because I actually dialled them. I never dial mobile numbers.

I know our home phone number by heart. Of course I don't know his mobile number. Hell, he barely answers it, anyway. I'd (or, next of kin) would be better off sending him a msg on Facebook or something.

I know my mum and dads home number, my mums mobile number, the pub my dad drinks at (!), my work number, and a few local services I contact for work. And my number.

No idea what our land line number is. Dh and i have been together nearly 14 years, i can tell you the first 5 digits of his number with some confidence.

I don't know my husbands number (except it has 999 in it!)... he doesn't know mine either!

The only number I know off by heart is my work number, my old work number and a few friends from school before mobiles

Wouldn’t the number you need in an emergency be 999 🤷‍♀️

Surely anything else is not then an emergency (and most people will prob know their landline number/their parents landline as it is still the same as when they lived at home)