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

[ChilliOnTheWilli]

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

@Turnedouttoes aw! I'm the same as your partner then, it is sweet I suppose. With him it's just a habit. He says the same things in messages too, the same questions. I could go on, minor irritants of course and I know I must be annoying in certain ways he hasn't mentioned...yet! He might blow one day haha

Not a partner but an ex-housemate. He uses a tea towel to dry a puddley, worktop then leaves the sopping wet tea towel in a heap sitting there instead of hanging it up so it has a chance of drying 🙄 He also bellows rather than talks with a normal volume voice so I could hear his conference calls from the other side and floor of the house! 🙄 Oh, and he also leaves the fridge door open when he uses the milk, so wastes electricity. He had a soft spot for me, but we wouldn't last 5 minutes as a couple as he drove me mad.

An ex used to leave washing up to soak for hours so the water went cold and the fat would be floating on the top 🤢 He also seemed to find closing drawers difficult, which I found odd considering he was ex-army and I thought they had stuff like this knocked out of them 🤔

Takes shoes off and just leaves them by the sofa. Socks too. We live in a small flat with two kids, a lot of stuff and the huge shoe rack is a metre from the living room in the hall. Washing machine is about two metres away in the kitchen for the dirty socks.

Crunches crisps or crackers really loudly every evening. No attempt to be quiet. That was actually the final straw for breaking up with an ex boyfriend in my 20s....

Offers to do the shopping but then asks what we need so he can't just take on the whole job like I do when I do a shop.

Eats unbelievably slowly to the point I will have finished my dinner at least half an hour before him and his has gone stone cold.

He yawns loudly every few minutes.

He leaves teabags in the sink.

My DH is incapable of folding laundry. He wafts the item around in the air before bundling in back into the basket to be put away. He is then very hurt when I don't give him the appropriate level of worship for doing this.

He listens to podcasts/ watches YouTube videos constantly. And gets grumpy when I get grumpy as he wasn't watching DD who has now sudocremed the cat.

And he will leave his key in the door so that when I get home from an evening shift I can't get in. He doesn't hear his phone and I can't hammer on the door because I don't want to wake DD. When he eventually wakes up he is very grumpy that I woke him.

He does have good points but these will be the reasons he goes under the patio!

@littledinokitty

@MoonDelay @Weave it's infuriating isn't it! Then after the 5th time in an evening I'd snap at him and he'd look all hurt 🙄

Haha yes mine does this too!! 🙄 Obviously by this point I actually am slightly stabby so he may no longer imagining it. 😂😂

My DP is mildly annoying but it's my male colleague who makes me stabby. He:

Eats junk food continually
Discusses junk food continually
Burps like a teenager, guess what, continually
Narrates his job
Watches appalling videos on his phone
Insists on showing me agonisingly unfunny memes
Takes phone calls from his friends and calls them all 'buddy'
Calls his gf 'the Mrs'
Coughs so loudly you can hear him down the street

He's quite cute though so I nod and smile.

@MoonDelay

Solidarity 👊😂

Sympathise with the hugging thing, sometimes you just want your own space!

And he will leave his key in the door so that when I get home from an evening shift I can't get in. He doesn't hear his phone and I can't hammer on the door because I don't want to wake DD. When he eventually wakes up he is very grumpy that I woke him.

@Dottiedot19 - sorry I think that is really shitty behaviour rather than just annoying.

Eats a lot of nuts and talks with his mouth full of them - makes me want to be sick, the noise of the chewing, crunching and gulping. Yuk

Worse, is his what I call 'musical yawns' he yawns and makes a sort of 'aaahhh' noise in an undulating tone which REALLY REALLY ticks me off ...I could actually STAB him for it.

It reminds me of Bernie Winters - long gone but memorable as I could never bear his whiny sort of voice....guess I'm very body noise sensitive but it repulses me. PLUS he yawns if he wants to be unpleasant as he knows now it really winds me up :(

NeedtoKnow I would agree but there are extenuating circumstances. He works days while I work evenings and nights so obviously can't wait up for me. And I genuinely think he does forget to take them out rather then do it to be a dick.

Doesn't make me want to stab him less when it happens though.

Puts his dirty plates etc on the worktop when the dishwasher is empty.

Chews and slurps loudly

Every. Single. Night. He finishes on his iPad and leans over the edge of the bed to pick his kindle off the floor, taking the whole duvet with him. Every night...

Two things: our kids like to pull the covers off our bed, if he makes it after the buttons will never be at the bottom of the bed. Always on the side or at the top. You'd think probability wise it'd happen maybe 1/8 times but no. Also, we have a hanging cutlery stand. It goes (correct me if I'm wrong here) knives, forks, big spoons, tea spoons. That's the order! Except DH never puts them back in the correct order. Never!!!

skid marks on his underpants
Oh god 🤮

All of these sound like the sorts of things children will do when asked to 'keep house'. What's in it for women?
I know, sad isn’t it that there are so many who aren’t “house trained” 🙄 and so many that end up with long suffering women. There's a reason I live alone through choice as I really couldn't put up with these "little" annoyances. If any bloke left his dirty laundry on the floor next to the basket no way would I pick it up and wash it. Tough shit if he ran out of clean clothes.

Has to google everything. Like "where was this filmed?", "what was that actor in?", "where was that person born?", "what's the currency in Outer Mongolia?", etc etc. He's the looky up king!
HaHa, I’m the looky up queen! Always something I want to Google the answer to. Latest is finding out about a building in an episode of Poirot 😁

Another thing my ex house-mate did was rather than putting washing up in the dishwasher (and apparently it was his idea to get it but then seemed reluctant to use it) he’d wash things up by hand...badly. I was constantly putting “clean” items back on the dirty pile.
And when he cooked anything he’d ask me questions like, “how long does it need in the oven?” as though I’m the font of all knowledge. I refused to get drawn into the useless man routine bullshit (he’s just as capable as me at reading a recipe/following instructions) so always answered “I don’t know, what does the recipe say?” then walk off.

DH isvery good at loading the dishwasher and then not turning it on.

He eats every dinner from a bowl or if leftovers, eats from the bowl they were stored in. Does my head in!

Does the washing but doesn't make sure all of the socks are in so we end up with missing pairs...mind you DS1 and 2 make a good job of not putting socks in the washing basket anyway!

I love living with three males!

Oh yes.

DH apparently haaaaates having clear paths, walkways, and/or access to things!

When he places something down, he ALWAYS places it in the middle of a pathway, or juuuuust off to the side of a pathway so that it's not immediately visible when walking, guaranteeing a stubbed toe or even an outright trip and fall! He especially loves leaving large tools in the covered path between the house and the shed, particularly when it's raining, so that I have to step out into the mud and rain rather than stay dry under the covering and walk directly like a normal person. RAAAAGE!

When he's not doing the above, he places things directly in front of a commonly needed spot. For example, he'll put a long, thin box on the ground right in front of cupboards, guaranteeing a stubbed toe when I need to reach into the cupboards, as I'm looking up at the cupboard rather than the bloody floor where nothing should be! Or he'll drop something like the big pack of bog roll directly in front of the sink, so that so that I can't reach the bloody sink without bending all the way over when I need to wash my hands right away!

It's so common (and so infuriating!) that we have a made-up name for this practise in this house.

Does not do laundry, or very rarely (he's not domestically challenged otherwise). Then asks me innocently: do I have any clean black t-shirts, cos I need one? Once I decided to ask him if I had any clean socks and he looked at me like I'd grown antenna, but apparently it is completely normal and fine that I would know exactly which of his clothes was clean at any given moment and which ones he would want to wear, with my psychic washing fairy powers.

Whisper-whistles. AAAAAAHHHHH

Is only capable of leaving wet towels on: the sofa, the bed, a rug. Soft, soakable furnishings. Lovely.

On the other hand, he's wonderful the rest of the time and he is equally stabby that I leave things in the fridge until they're sentient, scratch the alloys when I drive his car because I park like I stole it, and leave my teabags in the cup and he has to fish them out when they're cold. So we're equally annoying 😂

'tidying' by picking EVERYTHING up (regardless of what it is) and dumping it in a carrier back then shoving it in the deepest corner of a rarely used cupboard so when I find it I open a mouldy bag (bin bags dont breath so regardless of whats in it it goes iffy) full of the kids clothes I have been looking for, some random toys and a half eaten sandwhich - Then pretty much everything has to be binned because its distroyed.

when I get mad he says he 'tidyed'... no tidying is organising and putting stuff away in the correct place, he moans I'm not 'tidy' because of piles of clothes (because im usually working through a gazillion items of clothing putting them in wash piles or correctly organising them so they can go to the right draws/wardrobes/storage area) but I can tell you what everything is, where it is and where its going not just blasting though life thinking 'out of sight = tidy'

if he helped me properly the job would get done twice as fast and it might genuinly be tidy for once lol

Soaks dishes in the sink all day (and fills sink to brim so it's hard to fill a water bottle without getting it covered in soap suds). Then decides they need another soak the following day. Stop putting the sink out of action all day and use some elbow grease!

@Oysterbabe

He doesn't turn over in bed like a normal person, it's like the orca show at Seaworld.

Oh my God, I am cracking up here

I’ve been having a think about the things I do which I suspect or know must make my husband stabby in return - I think pretty high on his list would be the fact that I don’t hang up my wet towels, that I steal his dressing gown after a shower, and that I constantly ask him where my tights / legging / bra are, because he does all the laundry so I just expect him to know.

I am very annoying

DH is self employed and exists on sugary builders tea and bacon butties so when he is at home which isn't that often I constantly get requests for tea! He also goes for epic shits and doesn't seem to know what bleach/loo brush is for.