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

Desperately drying socks in the grill before work has got to be one of my favourites

Mine thinks outdoor spaces (think carports, sheds, etc) are just an extension of the house. Even though they are all open to the elements and not temperature or bug controlled. So I’ll regularly find things like clothes, important papers, old photo albums or expensive appliances put in there loose to ‘save space’. Almost always my stuff, of course. He just won’t be told that stuff gets irretrievably grimy, nibbled on, damp or starts disintegrating in there.

Then there’s the ‘performance kitchen prep’ which leaves everything a disaster zone, and results in food with practically no nutritional value, unsuited to the time of day, and usually inedible to at least one household member (never him). He will wash up, but is blind to all the greasy, mucky taps and handles he’s used. I get the rage for days afterwards, gripping slimy, sticky handles. I’m especially stabby at the way he pulls paper kitchen towels off the roll. Grabs both short ends, so the whole roll gets mucky. Every time. Grrrrr.

And the constant back-and-forth through doorways. Last week I counted 14 trips, just to put some meat on the outside grill and take it off again. I mean, it takes 2 trips when anyone else does it. It lets all the heat/cold/bugs into/out of the house. And it makes me want to poke the sausages into his eyeholes.

We clocked up 20 years together recently, I really don’t think I can do 20 more!

Oh I've thought of another one, DH (usually at a weekend or late at night) decides to do a job of some sort which is quite unnecessary. Yeah, okay, it could use doing but there are more urgent things to do at that moment if you see what I mean. He'll start emptying the cupboards to wipe them out, he will get as far as wiping the cupboards then need a little sit down (he gets bored VERY easily). He will then say he will put the stuff back later. He doesn't. Well, he does eventually as I refuse to do it as I have enough to do.

Or that time where I came home and he'd started to dismantle the big cabinet in our front room. Said cabinet stored pretty much everything that was in this room, I'm a huge fan of things being "away" to avoid clutter (think DVD's, paperwork, photo albums, ornaments etc.) We had discussed getting rid of it but I was obviously planning to replace it with something else that would serve a similar purpose. However, I came in from work to find the front room was just full of stuff, he hadn't thought it was a good idea to maybe get some boxes to box things up or black bags to get rid of things. No, just a room full of stuff, and also a huge pile of glass and wood. I was not impressed that day

Oh the list.

1. Washes dishes but only a few at a time walking away leaving 2 forks or 1 plate I the manky washing up bowl.
2. Washes dishes but never the pots or pans, never clears the counters, never wipes them either. Expects eternal gratitude.
3. Leaves his shoes right in front of the door so if I come in after him I can't open it. I throw his shoes out of the way and he gets arsy with me for it despite me adking him not to do it for years.
4. New one. Wfh, I'm in one bedroom, he's in the other. Walks in and starts talking without checking whether I'm busy. Gets annoyed if I don't answer right away.

Rubs his feet over the carpet when he sits watching tv so there is a definite “patch” of slightly worn different shade of carpet in front of the sofa.
Deciding he needs to add a few things to his meal , like pickles, sauces, salad, after I’ve made them and am sitting down eating mine. Once he even decided “ just frying a few onions to go with the dinner”. So I end up finishing my dinner whilst he is still preparing his!
Small but so irritating!
Actually you know how much you love someone if you can get through it without stabbing. If my exh had done either of these things he would be under the patio.

Dp babying the bloody dog. This involves me saying 'please put the dog in the car' (family walk somewhere) and him putting the dog in the crate and leaving the boot open so we arnt ready to leave and the dog barks like a lunatic.

Dp is a lovely lovely man who will do anything for me. If I get annoyed he just says 'please tell me exactly what you need' so the instruction changed to 'please put the dog in the car and close the boot' which worked for weeks actually until this week when I casually said 'can everyone put on their wellies and get in the car which resulted in dp going outside and tying the dog to the tow bar.

At this point I have to laugh or kill him.

My OH asks me questions all the time. UNNECESSARY QUESTIONS. Todays example:

Where is his car (he used and parked it yesterday)
Where are his keys (see above)
Whats for dinner - told him yesterday and he could have looked
Where does he collect DD from at nursery
Where is still doing the eat out to help out thing on their own

He asks the same questions over and over. He expects me to google then tell him the answer.

I can't even think what else but it's NON STOP.

I actually bite my lip when he speaks now out of avsolute annoyance

Oh kleew1, I feel your pain. I call it outsourcing his thinking to me. The only thing I can suggest is giving incorrect answers.

Getting excessive amounts of black sock fluff all over the recently hoovered carpets.
The carpet never looks tidy for long 😩🤦‍♀️

I’ll preface this by saying I’ve been with DH for a very long time and I love him enough not to kill him for this stuff not that there haven’t been close calls mind you but my list is long - lockdown was hard in the Crazy house 😂

Asks “how long will it be/ when will it be ready” whenever I’m cooking
Twitches/ fidgets.All. The. Time 🤬
He likes to have noise around him so he often walks around the house with his phone in his pocket with a podcast blasting out
Opens the dishwasher and does a little sigh when he sees I’ve loaded it
Says “do you want to do X (boring housework chore)?” No I don’t want to do that so you need to ask “will you do X please?”
He recently decided to sort out the fridge which meant he removed a few things that were on the turn, put them on the worktop, left them there and went to bed. I will admit I kicked off so much about this that he got out of bed and sorted it
Would often ask me what was for tea while I was driving home from work and he was at home, sat on the sofa
Likes to cuddle me while he’s falling asleep but starts randomly kicking me as he drops off -related to his twitches I think
Now I’m WFH he comes home from work and sits in my office to chat while I’m still trying to work
Watches the most boring stuff on tv - fixing up cars, digging for gold, climbing mountains and reruns of The Office - and talks to me about it

I was seeing the most perfect man from December through to lockdown. He has some housing issues so when lockdown was announced (and we thought it would be 3 weeks!) he moved in...and within a week he showed that he does ALL OF THESE!!!!

Feral!! Absolutely bloody feral!!! Grotty, dirty, disgusting-treated my home like a doss hole...he didn't stay long!!!! 🤣

Inane observations “we’ve got a cat!”

Constantly asking if he can get me a drink – “cup of tea, squash, coffee, need any water?” Shouldn’t complain really but it’s every 5 mins when he’s not even getting anything for himself and it starts to drive me a bit mad

Leaves dirty washing in front of The washing machine and not in the laundry basket.
Leave a dirty dishes " to soak in the sink" - just wash them.
Puts used tissues in the recycling- just why?

I let him watch Leeds Utd in peace but when I'm watching Liverpool, he'll give me a running commentary, call all the players dirty diving bastards and generally does not shut up. Gets on my tits. That and his inability to put a new loo roll out.

@kleew1

MINE DOES THIS!!!!

He asks questions constantly that we both know he knows the answer to,

“Oh did you go to the park with the dog this morning then?” (YES, you know I did)

“Oh, do you think you’ll get the red one with the metal lid and the wooden spokes then?” (YES, we already spoke about it and that’s exactly why you know that specific detail)

WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS 😭

Ok..
DH is incapable of showering or shaving without getting water all over the bathroom floor. WHY?
Every morning he leaves toast crumbs and a buttery knife on the chopping board. BUTTER YOUR FUCKING TOAST ON YOUR PLATE
He leaves dirty plates and mugs on the side, above the dishwasher. WHYYYY?
He puts pairs of trousers in my side of the wardrobe, which I then move to his side. We do this every. Single. Day.
When he cuts a packet open, he leaves the corner of the packaging he’s just cut off, and the scissors on the kitchen worksurface.
He puts cutlery back in the wrong compartments of the cutlery drawer.
He loads the dishwasher inefficiently.
He puts un recyclable things in the recycling despite being repeatedly told THEY DONT GO IN THERE.
He takes the rubbish out and doesn’t put a liner back in the bin.

Those are just the ones I could think of off the top of my head
I feel better after that.

Just being here all the time. He working from home, probably until april now. I can hear every word of one sided conversation all day long. Then he feels the need to tell me what he said she said..

Please stop talking!

Leaves his shoes three steps away from the shoe rack, his coat on a chair next to the coat hook, his bag in front of the cupboard and his keys under the key cupboard. Then gets pissed off with the kids when they do the same.

Tells me virtually any meal I've ever cooked would be improved with either mushrooms, mustard, chicken or a combination of them. I actually made him chicken with mushrooms in a mustard sauce and he said it would be really nice if I'd added cheese!

When he was yogurt he moves the spoon really slowly then all of a sudden puts it on his mouth quickly so the spoon clacks on his teeth. He also spends ages scraping every last molecule from the pot.

He used to leave banana skins lying around but I started putting them in his shoes and he got the hint.

AND he walks around the house with his phone in his pocket blasting (frigging football) podcasts, the same as @CrazyBaubles DH!
And always puts music on when I’ve just finished work. Just when I want to relax with some silence!

@notso

“Tells me virtually any meal I've ever cooked would be improved with either mushrooms, mustard, chicken or a combination of them. I actually made him chicken with mushrooms in a mustard sauce and he said it would be really nice if I'd added cheese!

When he was yogurt he moves the spoon really slowly then all of a sudden puts it on his mouth quickly so the spoon clacks on his teeth. He also spends ages scraping every last molecule from the pot.

He used to leave banana skins lying around but I started putting them in his shoes and he got the hint.”

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Proper lols at all three of those. Thanks

@shreddednips @weave

At least we are not alone. I say he is the ultimate project manager.

SO FRUSTRATING

I've just started saying I dont know or to google it. Wrong answers next.

And @notso has reminded me he smears mustard all over delicious meals I have lovingly prepared for him which do not need smothering in the bloody stuff.

@Notasyoungasiwas

I have been with my husband for almost 33 years. He still puts the spoons where the forks should be in the cutlery drawer!!

This makes me see red. I actually can't cope with it. My DH's whole family do it though, so I feel like I've entered a mad house when they come over.

He's currently snoring next to me so I'm feeling very stabby. Very very stabby.
Leaves socks everywhere. Apparently doesn't "see" mess because he's got too much on his mind I wish that worked for me.
Can't remember dates for sh*t. When I ask him to put stuff in the diary he says he will do it later. By which time he has forgotten the date he needed, the event, and why he was even holding the diary. We use the Time tree app (or rather, I do) so the calendar syncs on our phones. He will still double or triple book us, rather than just get out his bloody phone and check.
His likes/dislikes for vegetables and food in general seems to change daily. I can't keep up. There are so many rules of you can have broccoli with a roast dinner but not next to a piece of gammon that now I just cook whatever I feel like. He's not autistic, just annoying.
I love him dearly of course, and I'm sure I make him vaguely homicidal too.

@ViciousJackdaw

Bet that win felt good then

You reminded me of another... (I’m pregnant/overdue so the list is long at the moment!)

I will ask about the football team he [supposedly] supports. “Who were they playing?, what was the score? etc” and he has no idea. NEVER in return asks about the football team I passionately follow.

Oh and puts pepper on everything. I spent hours yesterday slaving over the perfect slow cooked beef ragu, put it in front of him and walked back into the kitchen to hear the pepper mill being grinded/emptied over it before he’d even taken a bite.

Excessive stinky farting in the bedroom. I get riled. It’s disgusting.
Leaving food out of the fridge (cheese, milk etc) after he’s finished using it.
Selective deafness. He won’t hear me asking him to do something, or he’ll ask me to explain things which are fucking common sense and then somehow still not get it, yet he manages to hear me muttering “jesus” under my breath from the next room, and gets all offended.

I’m absolutely certain, however, that his list of annoying things about me will be much, much longer.