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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

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QuestionableMouse · 23/09/2020 11:31

[quote funtimefrank]@BreconBeBuggered tbf I am very much your dh in that respect.

Thought of another - being unable not to stir. I don't want that fucking pan touched, leave it alone. Physically incapable of not messing with a pan on the stove.[/quote]
Ah he's a spoony fucker. So is mine. 🙄🙄

keeprocking · 23/09/2020 11:31

He would leave every light on and there are a lot of inset lights, porch, hall, kichen comes to about 25, but since he died suddenly in March I almost miss them. Grandson stayed at the weekend and when I got up he was watching TV, every downstairs light was on and I wanted to hug him!

LilyLongJohn · 23/09/2020 11:37

Not putting the teatime back. We have hooks for the tea towels, he'll use one, and leave it scrunched up on the worktop. I can follow him round the kitchen and keep putting it back, but he'll use it for everything and leave it on the worktop every time,

Leaves his shoes scattered all over the floor, I pick them up and put them on the stairs (so he'll take them upstairs to put away - ha!) then he moans at me when he nearly falls down the stairs after tripping on them Grin I've taken out life insurance on him

LilyLongJohn · 23/09/2020 11:38

@keeprocking that almost made me tear up Grin

ImaSababa · 23/09/2020 11:44

Extravagant nose blowing that rivals the trombone section of the Royal Philharmonic. Even more annoying when it wakes the baby up.

Aposterhasnoname · 23/09/2020 11:49

Says “say again” after every single sentence anyone says to him, even though he’s heard perfectly.

Me: looks like rain today
DH: say again
Me:
DH: better take an umbrella then.

Arrrrghhhhhh!

Oysterbabe · 23/09/2020 11:49

@EyeSeeWhatYouDidThere

He takes the bins out but doesn't replace the bags. He admits it is a very annoying habit!
Mine does this too. The food caddy is the most annoying one. He empties it, puts a few inches of water into the bottom and leaves it in the sink.
MoonDelay · 23/09/2020 11:52

He says "Hmmm?" After asking a quite mundane rhetorical question.

Leaves headphones, gloves, empty glasses, bits of things and general crap all over my cupboard/cabinet thing where I like to display my ornaments and crap.

Leaves rolled up dirty socks in the laundry bag, which are now going hard because I'm not unravelling those.

Erm...I'm sure there's more.

I don't always do it on purpose but I piss him off by repeatedly exclaiming how much I like/love a certain product in the supermarket when he knows full well already.

Doesn't make me feel stabby though, still love him 😄

Ameanstreakamilewide · 23/09/2020 11:56

@Proudling

Absolutely cannot twist things i say into something rude. Adds on “that’s what she said” to most sentences. Makes my eye twitch! (He’d add it on to that sentence for sure!)
A colleague and I I do something similar.

In Brooklyn 99, in response to something vaguely suggestive, Jake will often say 'title of your sex tape!'

It makes us laugh, anyway.

Nottherealslimshady · 23/09/2020 11:57

Leaves dirty cotton buds all over the bloody house.

MoonDelay · 23/09/2020 11:58

Oh the recycling, the fuck sodding shitting arse recycling. Leaves empty uncrushed bottles everywhere with the lid put back on.

Oysterbabe · 23/09/2020 12:07

Never uses the last of anything. Leaves the tiniest scrap of something imaginable and puts it back in the fridge.

Prettybubblesintheair · 23/09/2020 12:08

Also takes a can of soft drink out of the fridge but doesn’t replace it from one out of the pack in the cupboard then moans someone’s drank all the soft drink/there’s none cold. You! It’s you you fucking dickhead!

Complains that someone doesn’t use a chopping board and marks the counter tops...again, dh, it’s fucking you!

Loses passport/keys/car info. Opens a drawer or two and exclaims it’s “fucking vanished” then sulks until I actually use my eyes and find it in seconds.

Claims he loves to cook but makes Gordon Ramsey look like mother Theresa. I do like his cooking but it’s not worth the four hours of constant swearing, banging pots, shouting at everyone plus he also uses every. Single. Item in the kitchen to cook.

EmbarrassedUser · 23/09/2020 12:13

Doing what I call a ‘man look’ This aka means him saying ‘where’s XXX?’ I tell him exactly where it is and he goes off. I hear loads of clattering in the freezer or in the kitchen for example before she calls me to ‘help him look’. The way to freezer is positioned, if it’s a freezer item then it’s basically getting me to look. Anyway, 95 plus percent of the time I’ve located in virtually instantly exactly where I said the item would be. I’m getting twitchy just thinking about it 🤬

ClinkyMonkey · 23/09/2020 12:34

DP thinks he is tidy. This is because he periodically rushes around lifting stuff, saying - Where does this go? - Anybody know where this goes? - Where will I put this?

If he was as tidy as he thinks he is, he would know where every bloody thing goes. He wouldn't need to ask me every nanosecond until I'm ready to implode.

AND the shed is a shit tip, mostly full of his stuff.

He is not tidy. If I even hint at this he childishly says he will stop tidying and then see where we end up. Honestly? Nobody will notice.

froggygoneacourting · 23/09/2020 12:42

Refuses to use kitchen cupboards for some reason.

Tea bags? On kitchen counter. Coffee? On counter. Sugar? Counter. Jam? Counter. Marmite? Counter. Olive oil? Counter.

What is the actual bloody point of having kitchen cupboards!!!

Sexnotgender · 23/09/2020 12:54

@keeprocking

He would leave every light on and there are a lot of inset lights, porch, hall, kichen comes to about 25, but since he died suddenly in March I almost miss them. Grandson stayed at the weekend and when I got up he was watching TV, every downstairs light was on and I wanted to hug him!
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Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 23/09/2020 12:55

Leaves dirty clothes lying everywhere. You should see his side of the bed.

If I tell him to put the dirty clothes in the dirty washing, he chucks them next to the dirty washing on the floor.

Can't change a toilet roll.

Has psoriasis so flakes all over the house because he scratches all the time, and v
Bleeds all over the bed (I know that's not his fault, but I'm always the one to clean it up)

Pisses on the toilet seat and doesn't clean it.

Goes for 2 hour baths and doesn't give the bath a rinse after.

Goes to football training, doesn't eat dinner, comes back at 10 and makes the kitchen a fucking shithole after I've just cleaned it all.

Makes us cut holidays/days out short, misses birthdays because of football.

Gets paid to play football but we never see a penny. He has been telling me for 9 years they don't pay him, so it costs us money for him to go 3 times a week (he does get paid).

When he gives the kids into trouble he will mock them and make fun if them, same if we have an argument. He is like a 14 year old.

He winds people up when he is bored to amuse himself.

Feeds to dog things ge knows will make him ill, but just about forces it down the dogs throat no matter how many time I shout at him to stop.

Sleeps most of the night facing my side so I can't turn round because he sleeps with his mouth open.

Thinks he is always right, even when you have actual physical proof he is wrong, he is still right. Other people have commented on this too.

Spends far too much time on his phone, and can't concentrate on a word anyone says when he's on his phone.

When he talks on the phone to companies, he says things in such a roundabout way, and stutters and repats himself, that they don't have a clue what he is talking about.

Expects me to do everything in the house, even although I work full time and I'm 22 weeks pregnant with my third, and I have been really ill and sore. If we argue about it, he just goes on about how many hours he works or compares earnings (we earn around the same bit he can't seem to admit that) and will try to "joke" that it's my job because I'm a woman, but I think he does actually believe that .

Constantly comments on my driving, yet he is a terrible driver and has recently written our car off because of his idiocy. Luckily he was in the car alone.

I've had to get a gardener in because I can't even rely on him to do that, and I can't manage it at the minute.

Has a bit of a gambling habit, which caused endless problems a few years ago. You can't leave any money or cards lying around or they are gone. He convinced my oldest ds to "loan" him his birthday money £150. Then he stole the other £150 while we were all out. I had no idea about it.

I know you only ask for one thing, but he is really passing me off right now and I needed a rant. Honestly don't know why I'm still with him. Well I do, I can't really afford to be one.

Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 23/09/2020 12:57

Oh and loses his stuff all the time, but will go on and on at me telling me I've moved it or binned it, and I need to find it. It happens with everything, even his football boots which have been in the car since the last time he went to football.

CatsArePeopleToo · 23/09/2020 12:59

Toast crumbs in butter

Pizzaistheanswer · 23/09/2020 13:34

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

Leaves dirty clothes lying everywhere. You should see his side of the bed.

If I tell him to put the dirty clothes in the dirty washing, he chucks them next to the dirty washing on the floor.

Can't change a toilet roll.

Has psoriasis so flakes all over the house because he scratches all the time, and v
Bleeds all over the bed (I know that's not his fault, but I'm always the one to clean it up)

Pisses on the toilet seat and doesn't clean it.

Goes for 2 hour baths and doesn't give the bath a rinse after.

Goes to football training, doesn't eat dinner, comes back at 10 and makes the kitchen a fucking shithole after I've just cleaned it all.

Makes us cut holidays/days out short, misses birthdays because of football.

Gets paid to play football but we never see a penny. He has been telling me for 9 years they don't pay him, so it costs us money for him to go 3 times a week (he does get paid).

When he gives the kids into trouble he will mock them and make fun if them, same if we have an argument. He is like a 14 year old.

He winds people up when he is bored to amuse himself.

Feeds to dog things ge knows will make him ill, but just about forces it down the dogs throat no matter how many time I shout at him to stop.

Sleeps most of the night facing my side so I can't turn round because he sleeps with his mouth open.

Thinks he is always right, even when you have actual physical proof he is wrong, he is still right. Other people have commented on this too.

Spends far too much time on his phone, and can't concentrate on a word anyone says when he's on his phone.

When he talks on the phone to companies, he says things in such a roundabout way, and stutters and repats himself, that they don't have a clue what he is talking about.

Expects me to do everything in the house, even although I work full time and I'm 22 weeks pregnant with my third, and I have been really ill and sore. If we argue about it, he just goes on about how many hours he works or compares earnings (we earn around the same bit he can't seem to admit that) and will try to "joke" that it's my job because I'm a woman, but I think he does actually believe that .

Constantly comments on my driving, yet he is a terrible driver and has recently written our car off because of his idiocy. Luckily he was in the car alone.

I've had to get a gardener in because I can't even rely on him to do that, and I can't manage it at the minute.

Has a bit of a gambling habit, which caused endless problems a few years ago. You can't leave any money or cards lying around or they are gone. He convinced my oldest ds to "loan" him his birthday money £150. Then he stole the other £150 while we were all out. I had no idea about it.

I know you only ask for one thing, but he is really passing me off right now and I needed a rant. Honestly don't know why I'm still with him. Well I do, I can't really afford to be one.

I'm really sorry to hear this. I'm sorry he is gaslighting and abusing you, your children and your dog.

A lot of people on here have got a lot from the Freedom Programme. Also the book by Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?

Springersrock · 23/09/2020 13:55

The way he gets into bed. Honestly, this gives me the rage so much I’m actually considering separate beds.

He doesn’t get into bed normally - walk round the side of the bed, lift the covers, get in.

He stands at the end of the bed, then kind of launches himself at it. Then leaps around while getting the covers from underneath him. Then sort of jumps in then flicks and fidgets himself around while laying down and getting comfortable. I seriously want to kill him every fucking night.

Takes his socks off in the living room and leaves them on the arm of the sofa. The dog then steals them and takes them outside/to her bed/wherever. He then wonders where all his socks go

FruitLoopyLoo · 23/09/2020 13:56

@adogisforlife91

If he notices something that needs doing (which is rare) he says...

'We need to get the car booked in for a service'
'We need to buy more water filters'
'WE should get more food for the dog'

Instead of just bloody doing those things, when what he really means is now he's mentioned it, I have to remember to do the things!

RAGE

YES. God mine does this too.

'the milk is off'
'the dogs ran out of food'
'toothepaste is nearly empty'
And on and on.

I can't remember the last time I mentioned anything like that to him instead of just going and replacing what we are missing.

I'm also another who's husband makes any chore he does sound like he's doing a big favour... Oh wow thank you so much for washing your own dishes or hoovering your own carpet Hmm

He's alright though really 🤣

Riv12345 · 23/09/2020 14:03

Eating an apple

Soon as he picks it up I'm already wound up just waiting for that loud crunch
Oh and he eats the whole lot and play with the stem in his mouth for ages

😡😡😡

littledinokitty · 23/09/2020 15:13

My ex...
If he noticed that if I didn't have an expression of pure joy on my face at any point, would ask 'are you OK?' in a really concerned voice. I was always OK, just relaxing. I eventually told him that until further notice he was to assume that I was OK and any more questions would be totally ignored.
Talked to himself constantly.
If I asked him to do something, be it a large job or small job, would say 'I'll do it at the weekend'. This was the answer to everything. This magical, long awaited weekend never arrived.