To ask what does your partner do that drives you absolutely bonkers?

[AnotherSillawithanS]

Mine starts jobs all over the house and never finishes them.
Tiled my kitchen floor, still not finished, started doing up daughters bedroom, he decided to take over and it's now gone on months.
Started working on the sitting, still not finished. Can't use the room.
Been like this since the summer or longer!!
I'm driven mad with it, fucking mad I tell you!

In the last few days he's started working on the bumper of his work van. Sanding, painting, priming, still not finished. He didn't have to do this!!!!!!!!

I just can't take anymore.

Farts and burps constantly

@FiveGs

Makes the bed whilst I'm still in it!

HAHAHAHA brilliant!

Doesn’t bloody read instructions!! Drives me insane...

Also can’t sit on the bloody sofas without pulling the blankets off of them (I and every one else bloody manages fine )

My DH is the same, can never finish a job hence the nickname 'half a job (name)' though the nickname hasn't worked apparently I'm just moaning 🙄

@Adm1010

Opens the bread by ripping it in the middle !!!

Mine is like this too, not usually with bread but I regularly look at various packets he’s opened and have to conclude that he’s a psychopath with no understanding of normal human thought patterns or perforated lines!

Stands in the kitchen staring vacantly into space or staring at his phone while I'm trying to make dinner

Agreeing with those mentioning breathing - my (D)H breathes out, when asleep, with the force of a jet washer. I try my best to build a wall of quilt between us.

The worst thing, for which he is a MONSTER - opens cereal boxes, bags of flour/sugar, UPSIDE DOWN.

Oh and he hums while he is eating! It's so annoying but he doesn't realise he is doing it.

Also hates butter so when he eats toast near me it sounds like a giant chewing rocks.

I'm not a morning person, I like peace and quiet while I slowly wake up. He has 2 black coffees, has morning news on (so so loud) and shouts his opinions at me so even if I wanted to hear what the presenters are saying I don't stand a chance!

(I promise I do love him dearly)

Fills glasses to the brim (water not alcohol)
Does not make coffee the way I like it despite decades of training attempts.
Pulls blinds down below the window frame - drives me potty.
Does not hang out wet dish or cleaning cloths so they dry out.

Other than those no serious complaints.

@Hellocatshome

Lots and lots but the major one that has be wondering wether it would be accepted as a reason on the divorce forms is putting bottles of shower gel/shampoo upside down. Some are meant to sit with the opening at the bottom some are meant to sit with the opening at the top you can tell which is which based on which way up the label is. DH sits everything with the opening at the bottom and it actually really really pisses me off!

This annoys me if the bottles are left in the shower as the caps get full of water, but up on the shelf, it makes sense as the product is there when you need it.

Mine does a few things but mainly it's the snoring! He is working on his health so hopefully it will be a thing of the past but some nights I could have throttled him!

I am so relieved reading these!
Everyone thinks I have married Jesus but he drives me up the wall!
-Bath failed 4 years ago - started to re-do ... I still don’t have a bath!
-He cooks every meal but our kitchen cupboards are a mess - likewise pantry - he shoves very thing in

• says he’s done the washing but that involves hanging things on line - no bringing in and folding. If he says brought washing in then that means literally dumped on pile without sorting or folding
• he does not know how to get used clothes from the bedroom/bathroom to laundry basket .

-he opens packets of things that are already open. I just love the bones of him - and it’s lucky we don’t have a patio.

I don’t have a patio either. Maybe we need some kind of community patio provision - a bit like allotments - for those of us without easy access to one ? I do have an attic . . . And a coal hole . . .

Oooh I've just thought on another one and this one really makes me want to stick a knife in him. Whenever we're going anywhere away from our local area he insists he knows the way and refuses to put the sat nav on in his car. He does not know the way - we spend hours trying to get there before he finally relents and resorts to the aforementioned sat nav. I honestly feel like killing him by this time.
Oh and I have 2 patios- nice rural location if anyone wants help with that I'm willing to share.......

When we're in the car listening to music he changes songs halfway through duration a lot which is not cool when there's other people in the car listening

I could be here all day telling you his good points, but that’s not the question, so:

Says “say again” every single time I speak to him. Even when he’s heard perfectly well.

Takes one sock off, just the one mind you, and leaves it on the sofa every night.

Piles stuff up on the ironing board so I have to move it to iron my work clothes on a morning.

The faffing. Oh god the faffing. He once started mowing the fucking lawn whilst we had a taxi outside waiting to take us to the airport.

Asking me repeatedly if I’m ok. Example:
Him: are you ok?
Me: yeah. I’m fine
Him: how are you feeling
Me: I’m fine
Him: is everything ok
Me: for the third time, I’m fine
Him: are you sure
Me: %#€$%
Him: you sound a little irritable, are you ok?

Handsy… I hardly ever laugh to myself when reading these threads, usually find them mildly amusing
BUT!
your comment about the halfway off feet socks looking like East 17, absolutely made me laugh out loud… thank you, I can start my day in an affable mood now 🤪

reckless I note your spare patio. I’m central London and haven’t owned a car for a bit. I’d have to use my club car - hmmm will ponder. Thanks for offer !

Mine offers advice on whatever I am doing. If gardening, he suggests a ‘better’ tool to use, or a better method. He doesntyharden, apart from lawns.

Doesn’t garden !! 😏

Oh I have a list. Just as well he's bloody lovely in other ways or he'd be history by now

I totally relate to not finishing things, whilst being in total denial that it's as long as it is since he started the task. I've even taken to dating things & getting him to sign it, which he refuses & gets arsey about & still thinks he can deny all knowledge of how long it has been later. I'll add that he's a decorator & I'm forever been told how wonderful he is & what a good job he's done elsewhere by friends he's done work for, whilst I'm looking at half finished, peeling in places walls

Last minute faffing, this is where we really clash as he's a last minute Larry & I'm the opposite in that I'd be early rather than late. WTAF does he think he has to sort out the recycling or whatever, just as we are about to leave the house. It's been sat there needing doing all friggin day, especially easy to do whilst waiting on me or DD to finish getting ready & he plays on his phone until it's time to go & then suddenly something needs doing now. Tw@t

No sense of urgency, ever. I love his laid back nature, but not when something needs doing quickly & he's faffing around instead🤦‍♀️

@Adm1010 this makes me angry just thinking about it!

Makes the bed whilst I'm still in it!

Mine does this too!! Insists he's just tidying on autopilot when I tell him off. Shame he can't tidy on autopilot at other times nope, it's just another aspect of his faffing, in that he should be heading out the door to work instead

I'll add snoring, especially after a few drinks & then denies he snores like a bloody freight train, even when I've recorded it, he insists it's not him. Because he's not snoring, he accuses me of abuse when I poke, prod & eventually pinch him or his nose, to shut up his friggin snoring

Insists on emptying the dishwasher & putting the stuff away where there's space, not where it actually lives. I sorted drawers & cupboards out for easier access to the most used stuff 3 years ago... he still hasn't friggin got his head around where things actually live🤬

Oh and he hums while he is eating! It's so annoying but he doesn't realise he is doing it.

My DH AND DD both do this 🥴 it used to drive me mad too, but I've come to see it as a compliment if I've cooked. If both are humming away through their food, I've obviously done well😂. Neither do it when eating out though. TF

Mine is now asleep in the garden, has been there most of the night I imagine.

Still, he got the bumper on the van done......that needed doing.

I'm up early this morning to tackle my sitting room. He's boarded it up and I can see through a gap that he's kindly left the light on for me in there.

Fuck me. I'm so sick of this shit.

@MyOtherCarIsAPorsche

Agreeing with those mentioning breathing - my (D)H breathes out, when asleep, with the force of a jet washer. I try my best to build a wall of quilt between us.

The worst thing, for which he is a MONSTER - opens cereal boxes, bags of flour/sugar, UPSIDE DOWN.

Oh dear God. Just reading that about the cereal boxes is making me grind my teeth.