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Minor things your other half does that make you all stabby 🙃

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ChilliOnTheWilli · 22/09/2020 20:54

My DH is constantly asking for brews. I have never ever seen someone drink so many cups of tea and coffee in my life. His family are all the same, offering each other brews every 5 seconds. You literally put your cup down at my MILs and she's got the kettle on again.

I honestly can't take one more 'are you making a brew?' any time I look like I might be leaving the room or at the first hint of getting out of bed in the mornings. It gives me the RAGE 😂 (don't get me wrong, he makes a lot himself too). It's worse than hearing 'mum, mum, mum' for the millionth time a day.

He will even ask or get up to make one at like 11pm when we're in bed or if he's in the middle of drinking a beer in the evening.

Can I divorce my husband for making and requesting too many brews? Do your partners do anything minor that make you all stabby?

And obviously this is light-hearted, I won't actually stab him unless he asks for another brew

OP posts:
mnahmnah · 22/09/2020 20:55

Every single clothes drawer he ever opens, he closes it with part of the sock/clothes still hanging out. So I have to open it, push the sock in and close properly. Grrr.

Findahouse21 · 22/09/2020 20:56

Uses the word 'brew' excessively

Trailing1 · 22/09/2020 20:57

Empty loo roll tube left on top of the bin.
Mine is also a fan of asking for tea every ten minutes when WFH.
Asking 20 questions when I'm watching one of my tv shows.

Mylittlepony374 · 22/09/2020 20:59

Leaving every cupboard he ever opens, open. I mean, it has a door, just fucking close it.

princessbananahammock252 · 22/09/2020 20:59

Has about 3 different sat nav's running in the car when driving somewhere (Google, the car's own, Waze) but still manages to take at least 5 wrong turns! It drives me up the wall!!

oldmapie · 22/09/2020 20:59

Breathes Grin

NewMumma1819 · 22/09/2020 21:00

Putting the dirty dishes on the counter directly ABOVE the dishwasher. Not in the dishwasher. ABOVE.

Wowcherarestalkingme · 22/09/2020 21:00

Crunching his food loudly. I can’t sit next to him when he is eating crisps. Makes me want to behead him

WhereIsTheSaladDoris · 22/09/2020 21:02

Excess air from his arse and mouth and nose. Either farting, burping, sneezing ( so loudly) and general unnecessary noises

Gives me rage.

It’s only me who hears it. To everyone else, he’s so polite and well mannered

QuitMoaning · 22/09/2020 21:03

Snoring. But I am not sure that counts as “minor”.

It is like sleeping next to roadworks.

Disneyvillain · 22/09/2020 21:05

All of the above! Grin

avidteadrinker · 22/09/2020 21:06

Slurping his tea ... this is a new thing he’s only just started doing but it infuriates me as I think I suffer from Misophonia 😩

GroggyLegs · 22/09/2020 21:06

I love my husband. He's awesome mostly.

But the man can massacre a bag of peanuts - he makes a massive tear down one side about an inch wide leaving a big flapping flap that can't be folded over & the nuts fall out everywhere.

Thank God for zip top peas, or I'd have a freezer swimming in them too.

EatDessertFirst · 22/09/2020 21:07

ExDH used to hang washing on the line wrong and generally....breathing.

Sooooo glad its just me and the DC at home now!

Feellikedancingyeah · 22/09/2020 21:10

Mess. Clutter. Kitchen table, living room floor, entire spare room.

SassenachWitch · 22/09/2020 21:10

He expects the kids to put their shoes and coats away, and load their own dishes into the dishwasher, without following his own rules!

polkadotpjs · 22/09/2020 21:10

Emptying the washer onto the floor to put another load on But then leaving it
Not making the washing smell nice like I do
Putting power in the fabric softener drawer
Not pairing his socks up - I have retired myself from the job after his reckless "non matching pairs "! He now has a huge bag for life of odd socks

These are JUST the laundry related ones

Titsywoo · 22/09/2020 21:10

Slurps tea. I can't bear it.

Talks so much on the phone. SO MUCH. Admittedly lots of it is work calls but I am a fan of silence and hate it when people talk too much.

DotTheCaddy · 22/09/2020 21:11

If I'm driving somewhere and he's navigating he will tell me I need to turn left as we drive past the turning. It makes me want to scream.

Wont ever solve his own problems eg says he is hot, I ask him if he wants to turn the fan on and he says no. He has a headache, I offer him painkillers and he says no. Etc. That drives me nuts.

And he snores. Other than that he is ace.

Beamur · 22/09/2020 21:13

Getting things out of the cupboard, using them and leaving them on the side.
Tsunami of crumbs in his wake.
Bits of kitchen towel scrunched up and left lying around...

BlueBoar · 22/09/2020 21:13

Leaves coffee grounds all over the kitchen. But then it does mean I get coffee in bed when he stays over... I can live with it. (But not live with him!)

madcatladyforever · 22/09/2020 21:14

I don't have a partner but I give myself the rage by snorting myself awake every 15 minutes throughout the damned night (sleep apnoea). If only I could snore quietly and cutely like the cat does.

spongbobshitpants · 22/09/2020 21:15

We often get "treats" at the weekend. His is always alcohol, mine is always chocolate. Every time the bastard thinks it's fine to try and nick a bit of mine here and there because his isn't food.

I've told him to buy both but he gets all "no I'm fine with this" but then still tries to take some.

Last time I lost it and told him to get his greedy cunt hands off my chocolate or I'd be instructing a solicitor. Grin

Sexnotgender · 22/09/2020 21:16

@Mylittlepony374

Leaving every cupboard he ever opens, open. I mean, it has a door, just fucking close it.
Are you secretly married to my husband 😱

Just shut the fucking door!

Killpopp · 22/09/2020 21:16

He can’t sit. He has ADHD and he just can’t sit down. Even eating his meals, he carries it around in his little bowl because he has to be constantly moving.

And this thread has just awakened a hatred of the word “brew”.

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