Grounds for divorce? Tell me this is not normal...

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OH never opens food packaging properly - he rips it to shreds. Stabs butter foil in the middle, the same with yogurt or cream. This morning, bag of catfood - resealable bag - ripped through the side... i want to scream.

DH opens letters by tearing a tiny bit in the middle of the top edge, then rips them open down the middle.

Why oh why???

I should probably buy him a paper knife but I fear his savage letter opening ways would cause me to do him a mischief with said knife.

I see a PP has mentioned not closing drawers properly(sorry don't know how to quote). My DH never closes a drawer or cupboard fully, can't wipe a worktop thoroughly and leaves greasy fingermarks all over the fridge door and the chrome door handles to the kitchen and dining room. Some days, after following his spoor with a damp cloth, I feel like chopping his hands off.

Don't bin the dry ones. Just wet them and use as normal.

It definitely should be grounds for a divorce if not justification for murder. Mine rips everything to shreds at odd angles, opens 3 or everything if he can find it, doesn't replace the clips on the bags in the freezer (which he has has ripped open from the side or the bottom), tears off lumps of bread instead of cutting it and then leaves it out the bag so that I come along to find jaggy landscapes instead of a slice of bread, doesn't wipe worksurfaces and is pathologically opposed to putting lids back on things. Everything in our house is now decanted into old coffee jars for the sake of our marriage and his continued survival. He just found me reading this thread and actually crying with laughter. When I explained why he laughed too. He is glad that he isn't the only one permanently in trouble.

No wonder my husband left me 🤣 all the pent up rage from my racoon ways!

But, why???

Your wet wipe saga made me laugh 😂

Jesus wept, now I’m going to have to LTB and disown my two DC, as they are all incapable of opening anything without tearing it apart like a bunch of wolverines.

He is wasteful. How much money do you spend extra per month as a household just replacing products that were not completely used up due to the fact that he destroys the packaging?

This sentence genuinely made me laugh. Thank you!

Absolute grounds to LTB. As is, emptying the rubbish bin and not putting a replacement bag in, using the last of any particular pantry or fridge item and not replacing it at the next food shop. Not putting opened packets of biscuits into air tight containers so they don’t get stale.

If people genuinely think this kind of trivia worth arguing about, no wonder the divorce rate so high

I do some of this. I don't stab butter but I often miss the resealable part of a packet, like cheese or wipes. I often look at the savaged package thinking "why did I do that AGAIN" with bewilderment. I will do better, don't want to be a psycopath😖

This is what I’d call a ‘ First world problem ‘ - if this is the worst your other half does ie just being like most normal men ( !) , you’re bloody lucky !

My Husband is EXACTLY the same. It’s maddening. Also can’t hold a piece of paper without totally crumpling it up (even if it’s previous…think birth certificates).

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my dh doesnt even use a plate,
dirty so and so
and nor does he always use a chopping board

divorce

100% Divorce!!!

I'll tell you what he DOES do, though. Takes a bite out of things instead of cutting off a slice. So I go into the fridge and the lovely slab of Comté cheese I bought has fucking tooth marks in it and a bit mouth-shaped bite out of it. I've married a barbarian.

Bloody hell! How come you haven't murdered him yet?

JFC. Could you not have put a trigger warning on that post

found this today.....

If I found this at home I’d think an animal had somehow managed to get in. Are you sure it’s not a fox that did this? 😂

Surely he had the same behaviour before you married him.

My bugbear is my husband's inability to return things to the way he found them.
If he opens a door, he leaves it open . Even if I'm left by an open door to the freezing outside.
If he opens a tube of toothpaste, he leaves it uncapped to get hard and knobbly.
If he opens a drawer....

Totally ground for divorce. If I were him I would file without delay and find someone less nuts