AIBU to be locked in an unspoken battle with DH **lighthearted**

[Travis1]

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We got a new bathroom, so I bought new towels for the nice new bathroom to go on the nice new towel rail. I folded the towels lovingly and placed them on the rail and every time DH goes to the toilet he washes his hands and dries them and then SPREADS THE TOWEL OUT like the heathen he is because it’s too wide for the rail so it’s all scrunched up.

So now when I go the bathroom I fold it again and place it lovingly back on the rail only to repeat the cycle each time one of us go to the bathroom.

I’m not sure if DH realises we’re in this battle. He might be doing it to wind me up, he could be oblivious, if I mention it it might become like the ongoing toilet roll battle 😂😂

This is what covid has done to my life. This is my entertainment.

AIBU to never mention it and hope to wear him down with my will of steel? 😬

I have this with tea towels. I spread them out rather than fold to help them dry out, he folds them up to the size of a postage stamp and puts them on the draw handles. It's been going on years

UPDATE

He definitely knows! He’s stepped it up a gear by relocating the bath mat and my face cloth today. I am currently looking at metal chicken options on wowcher 😬😬

Oh dear OP. Sorry to hear that your battle about towels is indeed heading towards big metal chickens

I feel your pain. We have a blue mosaic mirror in the downstairs toilet and brown marble in the bathroom ( not my choice, came with the house). I bought brown hand towels and blue hand towels. My DH invariably puts the brown ones downstairs and the blue ones upstairs. He is not colourblind !

@WhispersOfWickedness

See how long it takes before one of you gets bored 😁

I have an antique bear in the corner of my bedroom. Every night when DH goes to bed, he covers the bear's face so it's not looking at him when he's sleeping, and when I go to bed, I uncover its face so that it can breathe

This has made my day!

Every day during the pandemic my daily commute is switch DDs light off, put the bath mat over the bath to dry and then sit at my desk. Every day.
Each day I say, ‘every darn day’ louder and louder. The bath mat remains stubbornly on the floor (after being used by his lordship).
Sigh.

I'm also involved in a battle of wills over towels on/notmon the floor, but ridiculously it is with my cat

I LOVE threads like these.

I have a very large errr..ornate vase I inherited which I love and DH hates. DH and I play The Big Horrible Vase Game whereby as soon as I put it out on the coffee table he moves it out of sight and I move it back when I find it. I officially won The Big Horrible Vase Game though when I put it in the passenger seat of his car strapped in with the seatbelt, for him to find one morning.

We also play the Hide The Tiny Cat Ornament for each other to find it eg hidden in a rolled up pair of socks in the drawer, in the lid of DH's flask so it falls out at work, in the meter cupboard for when I read the meter etc etc.

We have also been playing Say The Word First game for over 20 years whereby if we go to bed at the same time the first one to say The Word (too embarrassing to say what The Word is) wins the game. This has developed into a spin off game where DH wrote The Word on a piece of paper 20 times (like a shopping list) and hid it under my pillow. The next night I printed it out in giant type (one letter to A4 sheet) and laid it out under the duvet for him to find.

We have many many more games like this We are responsible adults in our 40s with grown up DC

I've never bought a metal chicken though yet

I'm currently playing the long game with my DP.

We attended a cup final a few years ago and bought a scarf with both team names on it in a half and half design. He displayed it at home with his (losing ) team's name uppermost. As I'd supported the winning team I switched it without saying anything. Next time I checked he'd swapped it back so I again returned the gesture.

Crucially neither of us spoke aloud about what we were doing - this is part of the game.

Over the years this scarf has appeared in beds, under pillows, in cupboards, shoes and in wardrobes displaying the team name of whoever has made the effort to secrete it there.

My next move may be to stitch the scarf so that the "incorrect" team name is concealed in the folds. I'm biding my time.

YRNBU-your DH is being a twat-this is the kind of thing mine does and it really fucking annoys me. I show him how I would like it done-he continues to do the opposite-then gets riled when I change it and says I’m controlling! This is for things like “helping me” hang out the washing...with one of the legs of pjs inside the other-I say please shake the legs out so that they dry...as I said-twat!

Awesome, a marital battle!

Can you sew folds into the towel so he can’t open it up and spread it out?

Please?

@Disfordarkchocolate

Don't tell him! These are the petty battles that keep a marriage alive.

This is so true.

I'm jealous of this!! I used to have this issue and it used to piss me off too.

But then one day DP decided he'd rather just hang his wet towel on our wardrobe door and that's where it now stays all the time :( I waged war at first to force him to put it back on the towel rail but he just never listened and I had to give it up in the end.

@BeingATwatItsABingThing

I had this with DH after our new heated towel rail was added last summer. My towel was beautifully folded and DH’s was hideously plonked. I snapped and told him to do it my way or suffer a fare worse than death. He does it my way now. Just DD to fix now.

So it's your way or the highway? Poor chap, perhaps he dislikes prissy 'beautifully folded', only your opinion, towels!

@JudgeJ

Really? You took my comment from all 65?

@WhispersOfWickedness

See how long it takes before one of you gets bored 😁

I have an antique bear in the corner of my bedroom. Every night when DH goes to bed, he covers the bear's face so it's not looking at him when he's sleeping, and when I go to bed, I uncover its face so that it can breathe

My husband does this too. ,!!!!

@Springisspringing2

I have this issue but in a more serious area. Dh takes washing and srunches it up on radiators to dry. So small parts not on radiators smell damp and I have to wash again. He refuses to lay things flat because he just doesn't understand this. He will also hang this folded up on the washing line.. Again so some parts dry more quickly than others.

My daughter does this and her washing dries crispy with damp bits. But she has sen and can't grasp the concept of spreading stuff out flat to dry

Ask him to trim the towels? Dead serious face - honey could you trim the towels? Cut width off so they fit neatly on the rack spread out? I fold them but I’ve noticed you don’t like doing that. You can’t really buy narrower towels so best you chop it thanks.
Disclaimer- maybe your dh will just cut them up like asked.