Isn’t it?

[Goingdooolally]

My husband has started to finish every sentence with “isn’t it” or a similar question. It’s so annoying.

Eg I say I need to get my son to sign something. He says he can do it tomorrow can’t he...

I say it looks like it’s going to rain. He says the forecast is for sun isn’t it...

All trivial but now I’ve started to notice it it’s really annoying. He does it at least every other sentence. Sometimes it’s fine but sometimes it feels like I’m supposed to agree with him.

AIBU to ask him to stop?!

😂😂😂 sorry, this made me laugh.

Unless you're sleep deprived or hormonal or grumpy with him over something major so everything is irritating you now yabu.

That DOES sound irritating! Do you respond to his questions?!

I am a grumpy cow! @ChelseaCat I just say I don’t know, does it? Is it?

Surely it's just inviting conversation?

(I had to fight hard not to finish that with isnt it, sorry 🙄)

@Bufferingkisses yes sometimes it is, other times I feel it’s rhetorical and I should be agreeing with him. More a tone thing. Bit of a power struggle in our marriage from time to time which is why I’ve picked up on it I suppose.

Why do I hear his voice in a Welsh accent? I think it's something to do with Hi De Hi, didn't Ruth Maddocks character always end her sentences like that?

Not Welsh is he? (I am, and this slips out when talking to people from back home😂)

Ok, surely if it's rhetorical you don't need to respond? I'm not totally sure i can see what you are saying because you talk about a power struggle. In my experience it would either be "blah, isnt it?" or "blah, isn't it" . I'm not sure I see either as a power thing - although I don't have that dynamic so may be missing an element?

Haha!!! No Scottish actually

@Bufferingkisses it’s kind of hard to explain but I do find it a slightly aggressive form of communication, like I need to agree with him. Anyway I’ve just started bouncing the questions back to him and he’s realising how often he does it and how bloody annoying it is. Most people do it from time to time but at the end of nearly every sentence is too much! I think it’s work related,

Reflecting back sounds like a good way to deal with it without getting too bogged down.

Oh you are lucky . My dh had a habit of repeating the last word of everything you said to him 'what do you want for dinner?... Dinner??? Have you watched the news?... News??' and on and on and on 😤.

@giantangryrooster too funny

I think it makes it sound more non confrontational. If you say it looks like rain and he says ‘the forecast is for sun’ it sounds a bit abrupt. Maybe adding ‘isn’t it’ makes it sound more confrontational and relaxed.

Makes it sound LESS confrontational is what I meant.

@Kanaloa it depends. I would say I think the forecast is for sun -I don’t think that’s abrupt.