Husband and kitchen knives

[Rollonspring23]

Despite me asking him numerous times to carry kitchen knifes pointing down in the kitchen, my husband repeatedly walks around with them pointing outwards.

We had a disagreement about this at lunchtime when I moved in the kitchen and he was carrying one outwards pointing at me at waist height.

Just had a row after I turned in the kitchen and found him carrying a knife to the other side about 10 inches from my ribs. I’ve lost the plot about this, he thinks I’m being unreasonable.

AIBU to expect him to carry knives pointing downwards, I thought this was an absolute basic!

If i was turning round and going 3 steps to the diswasher I'd hold the knife the same way I'd been holding it to use it.

If every time I turned around, my partner was so close to me as you describe, I'd be annoyed that they were always in my space when I'm in the kitchen and tell them to bugger off and leave me to it.

I'm totally with you op my dh does this. The amount of times he's swung around with a knife mm away from me....

But knives aren't the only risk when you step/walk backwards in a kitchen.

What if he was carrying a pan of boiling water and you walked into him?
Or he'd spilt something on the floor, you didn't see it and slipped over?
Or he had his hands full of plates/glasses and he dropped them, smashing them everywhere?

If you're going to tell him to hold knives a certain way for safety, the least you could do is behave in a safe way yourself

Don't want to hijack the thread but I have a 'thing' about cups/bottles with liquid in being near the edge of the worktop. Was always taught to push them back and I still do

I was taught to carry knives pointing down with my finger on the back of the blade. I was told that if you fell carrying the knife you wouldn't cut yourself.

My grandad was a butcher so used knives a lot and it was him who taught me this.

I've always taught the kids to not hold knives pointing out but I pretty much grew up working in kitchens so it's standard here. I do get it OP and I too would be a bit pissed off at walking into a kitchen directly into the path of a big kitchen knife aimed at my stomach (not because of a stabbing fear but because I'd likely yell "Fucking hell!" and drop whatever I'm carrying by coming to an abrupt halt). It's annoying in an adult household rather than that dangerous.

It's really reckless if you have children though. I'd be scared of my kids running straight into it at full pelt, right in the eye or wherever.

My DH isn't unsafe with knives but I did absolutely lose the fucking plot with him over paracetamols and ibuprofens. He took painkillers a lot (he'd been raised to take them if he thought he had a headache "coming on" even if he didn't actually have one, just the thought he might get one?!?!) but he would take the tablets out of the medicine box and instead of swallowing them there and then, they'd go into his pocket. The number of times I found a bright pink Smartie looking ibuprofen sitting on the couch or on the floor was ridiculous and we were lucky the kids didn't pick them up.
It took me screeching, shouting and swearing at him to make him realise that perhaps he might possibly need to stop unknowingly dropping fucking medications around our toddlers.

Lol my hubby gave up years ago and so far I aint stabbed him 🤣🤣🤣what does it really matter if he aint hurting anyone and not deliberately doing it cmon