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Is my marriage childish? (Lighthearted)

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CurryQuest · 05/09/2022 19:25

So yesterday I was getting a bath when my husband came in. We keep some water guns in the bathroom as our two boys like to play with them when they're getting baths. He grabbed one and squirted me with water, so I got him back and this turned into a little water gun fight. We laughed a lot!

Later on, I was talking to my mum on the phone and my husband walked past and pretended to get me again. I laughed, mum asked why so I told her about the water fight.

She then replied by saying we sound really childish and ought to grow up a bit. I responded by saying there's nothing wrong with having a bit of fun with your husband and left it at that.

Are we really so childish? 😂 What childish things do you and your partners do?

OP posts:
Heyjoewhatdoyouknow · 05/09/2022 21:32

I've often thought my husband and I are very childish compared to all the grown up (same age) couples who we know! This thread is great!

We have our own language for lots of things, find humour in the smallest things and are generally quite silly. We even have a whole made up running joke about an imaginary animal and his life of crime.

You'd never know it if you met us at work or socially. Thank God! 😊

FettleOfKish · 05/09/2022 21:35

Ha! No your marriage sounds great fun OP.

DH and I often use the Alexa app to switch things on and off in whichever room the other one is in. The other day he was having a lie down and I launched the 'big fart' skill on the bedroom Alexa and then cried with laughter for about 15 minutes Blush

We often 'sing' entire conversations to the tune of whatever we've just been listening to.

Just this evening we both went running down the street like excited kids to a better vantage point from which to watch a big lightning storm.

Sunnytwobridges · 05/09/2022 21:39

One of the best relationships I had was one where we would play wrestle. I loved it! I love some playfulness as long as it's lighthearted and fun.

3totheright4totheleft · 05/09/2022 21:46

I like hiding things from DH. It's so silly but he'll start making a cup of tea and a sandwich and as soon as he goes to look in the fridge I'll hide the cheese or put his mug somewhere odd. He's always so busy waffling on that he doesn't realise and then his expression is priceless.

WiddlinDiddlin · 05/09/2022 21:48

Super childish... ridiculously silly.

Fart jokes. Farts are rated (duration, volume, stench, performance/delivery, and pitch).

Endless quotes and references to things we've often long forgotten the source of... and many we haven't (usually Two Pints of Lager, Beavis and Butthead, Bottom, Young Ones, AbFab, Vicar of Dibley...The Goon Show...)

We play the Traveling Lemon game, randomly... and sometimes its not a lemon! One of us will just announce to the other 'The lemon is in play!'... (last time it was a lego minifig)... and the other has to find and rehide it, in plain sight.

When I still lived local to various friends we had a range of sordid and disgusting evening entertainment 'games' that were hysterically funny to drunk/stoned 20somethings but couldn't POSSIBLY be repeated here.

We play board games! More so now than I did as a kid tbh as neither of us cheat or lose our temper!

We have a lot of less fun stuff to deal with on a daily basis - being silly really helps!

LeoLady08 · 05/09/2022 21:48

I've always said the day couples stop being silly is the day they should start sitting in seperate rooms and sleeping in seperate beds. Only last week I crawled across the grass and whipped my husbands shorts down when he's talking to our neighbour over the fence. He didn't look very impressed carrying on the conversation with his shorts round his ankles but I found it hilarious

Lindy2 · 05/09/2022 21:53

Families that play together, stay together.

It's a bit of a corny saying but I think it's true.

KermitlovesKeyLimePie · 05/09/2022 21:58

@youllbefine We do that and in the bathroom with towels!

Married almost 30 years, laugh together and tell each other we love each other every day.

Topgub · 05/09/2022 22:05

It all sounds a bit put on for effect tbh rather than childish.

Like those parents who play very loudly with their children so other parents will hear them.

LosttheremoteAGAIN · 05/09/2022 22:06

Normally I’d agree with your mum,but to spice things up,I ordered some cock rings last week and they arrived today
for some reason they’ve come (pun intended) in 3 different sizes so all evening we’ve been pinging the one that doesn’t fit,across the room at each other like a catapult (we,well he,had to,ahem,try them on)
ive been hit in the face,with a cock ring,more times than I care to admit this evening (never thought I’d admit to this!nor is it a sentence I ever thought I’d utter!)

what do I know? (Trots off to buy water pistols)

trilbydoll · 05/09/2022 22:09

DH used to hide from me but since the night I went to bed and left him stood in the wardrobe, he doesn't do it at bedtime any more!

notanothertakeaway · 05/09/2022 22:12

TBH, I think water fights sound a bit childish, so I'm with your Mum

But it's harmless fun

CaptainThe95thRifles · 05/09/2022 22:14

When I became a man* I put away all childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

*I'm not actually a "man"... Nor am I CS Lewis, but I'm totally with him on this one. Embrace the inner child Grin

SingingSands · 05/09/2022 22:21

I like picking DH from nights out. I wait until his hand is almost touching the door handle of the car... then I drove forward. Then I do it again. Then I cry laughing so much that I can't drive at all for about 10 minutes. Grin

Curlygirl06 · 05/09/2022 22:36

I like changing the good night message on Google to stupid things, mostly relating to dh having a donkey sanctuary when he wins the lottery (he wants one, he's not having one). Stupid thing is, we don't do the lottery!

I bought him a donkey fridge magnet, and I keep turning it upside down and telling him his donkey has died.

KermitlovesKeyLimePie · 05/09/2022 22:38

@Curlygirl06 That's funny.

NEVER drop the dead donkey.

FettleOfKish · 05/09/2022 22:42

Topgub · 05/09/2022 22:05

It all sounds a bit put on for effect tbh rather than childish.

Like those parents who play very loudly with their children so other parents will hear them.

But for what effect in an otherwise empty house?

Your example suggests there are people around to see, but I can assure you that when DH 'windmills' at me each and every single time he gets out of the shower, there is (thankfully) no audience.

Topgub · 05/09/2022 22:48

Well now her mum and mumsnet know....

Bouledeneige · 05/09/2022 22:57

I don't have a partner but my DD and I get really silly. Spray each other with the shower attachment, play hide and seek, have massive cushion fights and in a 5 star hotel chased each other round and round through the two doors to the living room bit.

I once drove my 10 year old DS round a car park on the bonnet of my car (v slowly). I also made up a rap and did the moon walk on Santa Barbara pier.

I'm 58 and a CEO and I'll be dead soon. Your Mums so wrong,

JustFrustrated · 05/09/2022 23:00

Topgub · 05/09/2022 22:48

Well now her mum and mumsnet know....

You sound miserable.

I like to flash DH at really inappropriate times.

I pulled my skirt up as I walked away from him the other week, and he totally called my bluff by announcing to whoever he was on the phone to what I'd just done...

It's alllll about having fun.

And when I look at my friends relationships, when they are so serious, and they don't talk about being friends with each other.... I know which couple has the best shot at life together....hint, it's not the ones constantly nipping at each other and never laughing together.

Somegirlsarebiggerthanother · 05/09/2022 23:01

Rinatinabina · 05/09/2022 19:39

I think I would be like “WTF DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING” if DH squirted me with a water pistol.

BUT I am a grumpy old sod. Squirt away! Your mum is being a bit harsh there!

Yip, if a man makes you squirt, he’s a keeper 😜

Somegirlsarebiggerthanother · 05/09/2022 23:04

i love a good water pistol fight! And I also like covering DH with bubbles if he walks by while I’m doing the dishes

Campervangirl · 05/09/2022 23:06

Pah, that's not childish it's fun, my oh and I poke each other up the bum when we go upstairs, it's got to the point where we stand at the bottom of the stairs saying "you go first" "no, you go first" literally we can be there 5 minutes before my oh gives in and makes a run for it then I chase him up the stairs 😂
God knows what the neighbours must think 😉
Enjoy yourself, you sound like good fun

WiddlinDiddlin · 05/09/2022 23:06

I have to announce prior to answering if its a work call (rare fortunately) as he will stick a wet finger in my ear when I am on the phone, or wave his willy at me, because he knows I've a tendancy to make some really WEIRD noises when startled or trying not to laugh, and finds them very funny.

We're definitely not 'putting it on for show' as theres only the dogs here to see and they're unamused by much except food, training and walkies!

FettleOfKish · 05/09/2022 23:17

BetsyBigNose · 05/09/2022 20:42

We do a little cheer and wave our arms in the air any time one of the judges on Masterchef says "delightful"!

DH and I both silently (but physically very enthusiastically) flick the Vs at anyone that comes on the TV that we've taken a shared dislike to, either real person or a character.

It becomes a game to be the quickest, and to stop immediately that the scene changes and they're no longer on screen.

It's now bugging us both trying to think of the first person we did it to Grin