To want to drink my own drink?

[shoutyshouter]

Please tell me I'm not the only one who's husband constantly drinks their drinks?
It drives me absolutely bloody mental.
I'll make a pint of squash, have a few gulps, leave it on the side and 20 minutes later it's all gone with just an empty glass left.
I open a can of coke and will have a few sips, an hour later it will be empty in the recycling bin.
His excuse for 10 years has been "well I only wanted a few sips" or "I didn't want a whole one"
This happens at least 3 times a day and I am literally at the end of my tether.
Stop drinking my bloody drinks

[Dizzy1234]

Christ, I thought it was just me.
My OH is always saying I need to drink more water but he constantly drinks my drinks, I make one in a sports bottle and sip it through the day and he comes home and drinks it, always.
I have a pink bottle so he knows it's mine, hell walk into a room with it, guzzling it, when I say something he says "well it was just sat there, you weren't drinking it" 🙄
He also walks around the house scooping up money, any money left around he assumes is his and pops it in his pocket, I could punch him in the throat (joking, kinda) 😉

[Moomoolandmoomooland]

You wouldn't like me OP. I'd tip your drinks down the sink if you kept wandering off and leaving them on tne kitchen counter.

Buy a sports bottle and carry it with you.

[Bramblebutter]

@Bramblebutter

We generally make the other a squash when we make one for ourselves...but if I see my DPs squash in the same room as me, I'll take a sip or 2, I don't think he would mind. Wouldn't steal a proper drink though, like a can.

and if I forget my night time glass of water I sometimes drink my DPs.... He hates that lol

Oh I just asked him if he minds me sipping his drink, he said he didn't know I did that and he doesn't particularly like it

I'm am OPs husband!

[Mhc19]

I'm with PP, put vinegar or salt in the next drink. He'll soon learn.

[Oblomov21]

I have this, from Dh, only occasionally and it drives me nuts. I'd rather get up and go and make someone another drink, get another packet of crisps or nuts, rather than you eat mine. I hate it.

[Justilou1]

Mine does this with “good” wine that I (very rarely and VERY CLEARLY explain to him) I am savoring and wish to drink over several nights. I have one glass and the greedy fucker scoffs the rest. I just won’t buy it now. No amount of losing my shit has stopped this.

[cantgetmyheadroundit]

@Moomoolandmoomooland

You wouldn't like me OP. I'd tip your drinks down the sink if you kept wandering off and leaving them on tne kitchen counter.

Buy a sports bottle and carry it with you.

Why would you? What's it to you?

[iluvpickles]

No but my kids steal them, more so the 3yr old and if it's in a water bottle then the 1yr old drinks it too.

[Dishwashersaurous]

It would drive me mental if someone left a half full glass on the worktop all day

[Inertia]

Other people helping themselves to my food/drinks does my head in - I insist on buying DH chocolate in the shopping despite his Mavis Riley- style protestations about how he really shouldn’t, because otherwise he just eats mine.

However, drinks left lying around for hours on end would just be assumed to be washing up in my house.

Why can’t you just make as much squash as you want to drink, drink it, and be done with it? Then just make the right amount of squash when you’re thirsty again?

[stackemhigh]

YANBU, my DH does this. It messes up my 3lt water intake for the day.

I agree with pp, put vinegar in a few times to discourage him as he's not listening.

[Kottbullar]

Him drinking your drinks is weird, but you leaving them lying around would be really annoying to me, especially cans of Coke.

[chachachanges]

Oh this would drive me potty too OP, my sympathies.

Side note: I've never understood the phrase 'makes my teeth itch' but I think I'm getting it for 'glass of drink', finding that annoying. As you were

[requitalissima]

Nope, would never occur to either of us, really, what odd habit
On a completely different and painfully annoying - [I know my viewpoint is painfully annoying to most] - drinking squash, coke, any bloody soft-drink apart from good lite tonic in ones' gin & tonic, is odd to me, why fill up on pointless sugary crap? Drink water or sparkling water if thirsty.

[PattyPan]

@requitalissima most squashes don’t have added sugar nowadays and sugar free versions are also available for the majority of soft drinks

[Butwasitherdriveway]

@requitalissima

Nope, would never occur to either of us, really, what odd habit
On a completely different and painfully annoying - [I know my viewpoint is painfully annoying to most] - drinking squash, coke, any bloody soft-drink apart from good lite tonic in ones' gin & tonic, is odd to me, why fill up on pointless sugary crap? Drink water or sparkling water if thirsty.

😳

[Chanjer]

Oh I just asked him if he minds me sipping his drink, he said he didn't know I did that and he doesn't particularly like it

Did he say why?

[Chanjer]

On a completely different and painfully annoying - [I know my viewpoint is painfully annoying to most] - drinking squash, coke, any bloody soft-drink apart from good lite tonic in ones' gin & tonic, is odd to me, why fill up on pointless sugary crap? Drink water or sparkling water if thirsty.

Sugar is life

[LST]

Me and dp both do this to each other. So YABU and NU all rolled into one 🙈

[OnlyToWin]

My dh used to have a terrible habit of bringing me a drink then taking a sip before he handed it to me. So weird. Thankfully he does not do it anymore. It used to drive me mad and I told him as much.

[LST]

@OnlyToWin

My dh used to have a terrible habit of bringing me a drink then taking a sip before he handed it to me. So weird. Thankfully he does not do it anymore. It used to drive me mad and I told him as much.

I do that too. Everytime. Whoops!

[OnlyToWin]

@LST help me understand why!!!

[LST]

[quote OnlyToWin]@LST help me understand why!!![/quote]
I honestly have no idea! But after this thread I will ask dp if it actually bothers him 🤣🙈 Though in all fairness he does it to me too!

[OnlyToWin]

Well, as long as you are both happy!!

[Brefugee]

You wouldn't like me OP. I'd tip your drinks down the sink if you kept wandering off and leaving them on tne kitchen counter.

you'd be wearing the next one.
How difficult is it to keep your hands off someone's drink? I will take hours sometimes to finish a glass of water (I don't particularly like drinking) but if someone poured it away There Would Be Words