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

Also waits for phone to be flat battery and looks for it to charge it when we / he should have left house ten minutes ago

I mean all phones have a battery remaining indicator in the right corner, right? It's not like there is no warning!!!!

Snoring...
But the one that sends me to the edge ..eating cereal - crunch munch crunch crunch crunch slurp. Then scraping the spoon on the bowl...Surprise the bowls survive

I've just remembered bed farting. I have IBS so fart a lot and have a childish sense of humour so farting doesn't bother me most of the time. The issue I have is that he gets into bed and lets rip the most awful smelling farts, it's like something has crawled up his arse and died. When I complain he tells me he doesn't know how to hold a fart in or that it's too painful. I ask him to leave the room to fart and he says they come on him too quickly. In the end I tell him that if he doesn't stop he's going to sleep on the sofa and magically that's when he stops needing to fart.

Ask if he does this in the office or when he goes to see his mum?

Thought of yet another thing my ex-housemate does...
He'd handle raw meat then rather than wash his hands straight away would wipe them on his trousers and wander around the kitchen touching things, opening drawers, etc. I pointed out the cross contamination issue and he didn't see the problem

This thread is both entertaining and rather depressing at the same time. There are so many men and boys who are not house trained and who I'd find a nightmare to live with. It reminds me of "She divorced me because I left dishes by the sink" and makes me realise I'm highly unlikely to be able to tolerate ever living with anyone again.

@SillyFilly I kept waiting for someone else to ask about this but its 10 pages on any no-one has....
Slurps tea straight out of the kettle
Am I missing something? Why was the tea ever in the kettle? Is he literally drinking from the spout? This one line is giving ne brain itch!

Ask if he does this in the office or when he goes to see his mum?

His mum was a prodigious farter so he had no qualms there. He'll also fart in his office if he thinks he can get away with it.

The WFH situation is driving me mad, not because DH is in the house (whole other thread, too dull to post) but because he expaaaaaaaaands out his already lengthy morning bath, with no thought to anyone else possibly needing to get in there. If he does need to go into the office, we have to have the whole Why didn't you tell me how late it was/I'm not your mother routine because he's been locked in the bathroom for a good 75 minutes and now has to get his shit together and be a 40 minute drive away inside 25 minutes.
Tough shit boy, say I. Good luck with the traffic.

@PinkArt haha! No, sorry I'm not very good with explaining things sometimes and I was very tired at the time of writing it. I meant that he'll try drink tea with the water that has just finished boiling in the kettle. He doesn't have milk in his tea so it's still far too hot to drink straight away so does this awful slurping thing to try not to burn his mouth. We even have a kettle that will stop at 70/80/90oC but that doesn't make sense to him 🙄

@sillyfilly Oh thank god. I though I'd discovered another weird mumsnetism that was totally off my radar, like the madness about not having a toilet brush!

Talks insanely loud on work calls.... like tell talks. Super loud sneezes. Can never hangs the towels up correctly. Folds them in 4 for some reason. They need to be draped! We don’t have heated towel rails / rads!!!

Today he has washed all the bed linen, wonderful. I am grateful, he never does it. But I worked last night and am desperate for sleep today but now I have to make the bed first and our only flannel sheets are in the washer.

Shuts the bathroom window but leaves the handle in a weird 1/2 open / half closed position to the window isn't actually locked - no matter how many times I demonstrate to him that this doesn't work.

Goes to the toilet before getting into the shower and 'forgets' to flush the toilet.

Whinges that the dogs are always destroying his shoes and socks; well you shouldn't have taught them to take off your socks and bring you your shoes then! THEY THINK THEY'RE TOYS.

Always leaves his coffee cup on the coffee table....but moans at me if I ever leave my glass or cup on it when it's empty for more than a minute.

NEVER wipes down the cooker top after use, even if he's cleaning the rest of the kitchen.

Leaves used Q-tips on the kitchen worktops NEXT TO THE BIN.

This was cathartic!

• Without fail, if we are going on a trip in the car, he goes back in to the house once children and I are buckled in the car to faff, doing something totally pointless he could have done ages beforehand . It’s probably less than two minutes but it drives me and the children crazy!

• We have curtains either side of our front door. He leaves first in the morning but only ever draws one curtain across enough to let himself out. Why? Why not just draw back both in the usual manner?!

• Starts the car engine before I get my seatbelt on. This is probably more me being annoying but I was taught not to start the car until everyone was in the car properly. Now I purposely leave my door open, then do my belt, then shut my door

@Notasyoungasiwas
Swap them over and see what he does

Awesome thread , have almost spat tea over desk reading some posts

No, I am not proud at all, where exactly in my post do you see any pride? Im venting my anger at this total asshole I'm in the process of separating from, so next time please do not be so quick to judge without knowing anything. And his racist and homophobic remarks have only been an issue in the last couple of years, he started doing it since he noticed they bugged me. They have caused some HUGE fights as I strongy disapprove of pretty much every word he says that way, and I will not have him speak such trash in front of my children. So since you mention judge Judy etc on your reply... find out the whole facts before you pass judgement. If I were ok with his behaviour I wouldn't be venting about him on a public forum- or divorcing him!

@mam0918 I am NOT supporting him, I just slated his behaviour in a public forum and we are separating, how is that supporting? And what is there to laugh about here? It's a horrible life I'm escaping, you troll.

@ladybee28 thank you for sticking up for me. There are always people so quick to speak they forget to engage their brain first.

@cricketmum84 no, we are separating, just neeed to come on here for a lighthearted vent but I guess there is nothing much lighthearted about some of his behaviours. Forgot to mention he also does this thing where he sticks the tip of his tongue out and moves it fast from side to side like a snake or something, while he listens to you, which looks incredibly creepy.

@tenlittlecygnets Well, whatever it is, not a crumb or a spec of dust escapes his eye in the rest of the house, he is the type to run his finger over the skirting boards behind the FRIDGE and frown at me, however when it comes to the bathroom, he is totally oblivious to the grossness of wiping his face on a towel without washing off the foam first, and just leaving it there for the next person...ugh. Major bugbear of mine.
And yes agree the bigot comments are not minor, but just needed to vent somehwere about the idiot after a particularly hard day. We are separating.

Shouted at my dh it's not an effing department store when he can't find something.

Talks insanely loud on work calls.... like tell talks

Oh yes, this. People say to me 'how's DH?'. I say.. 'yeah, fine, shouting on the phone as normal'.

I wear noise cancelling headphones all day long.

@GalaKC well that's good to hear! Stay strong - you are definitely doing the right thing judging by what you have said about him!!

@cricketmum84 thank you, yes I have absolutely no doubt this is the right thing to do, specially now seeing the reactions of other people to his..whatever we can call it. I tried for a long time as we have 3 young children, but enough is enough and I do not want them to grow up thinking this is what married life should look like.