Husband giving me the ick from a whole floor away.

[Psilence]

I'll preface this by saying I am particularly sensitive to eating sounds, but this morning, I felt ridiculously on edge and rageful at hearing my husband eating crisps. There are a few contributing factors that made me so angry.

1. He eats crisps by crunching his teeth on them before closing his mouth, amplifying the sound.
2. It was around 7am and I was just waking up, cosy in bed with the cats.
3. He had been out drinking with his rugby mates last night and hadn't come to bed yet, which happens maybe once a month. I don't like it because he then sleeps all day on Sunday and don't really see him all weekend.
4. The noise of him rustling the bags and chomping made its way from the living room (stairs open into it) and through the bedroom door, which was ajar enough for the cats to come and go.
5. He ate three packets back to back.

AIBU to have forgone my lie-in after he opened third packet, called down the stairs to tell him to stop being so fucking loud, and then voiced my disgust after I'd showered and gone downstairs?

He was all wounded and went to bed.... he's still there now.

I feel your pain. Its infuriating. Ive been there silently seething. Maybe shouting and cursing wasn't the best method, and probably embarrassed him. Probably better broaching the topic when calm and being direct in a mindful way.

The staying out all night, and sleeping all day is out of order though, imo. It was probably his hungover that was causing the lack of awareness.

That would drive me insane I don't really know what to say his staying out and breakfast crisps would disgust me.

I hear you. My husband is currently very loudly munching a bag of nuts about 3 feet from my ear and I’m just gritting my teeth wondering if I can live with this for another 40 odd years. One day I’ll lose my shit.

My husband pushes handfuls of crisps in his mouth as if it were a food processor... hate it and do tell him but to no avail, also drops them everywhere in his hurry to crunch... YANBU

I know your husbands probably aren't trying to be quiet but I swear I have hollow jaw or something. No matter how quietly I try to eat crisps the noise is super loud. I didn't think it was that loud until my husband recorded me across the room one day as I kept saying he was being super oversensitive but by god it's as loud as the exaggerated crunching on a crisp ad 😆 but he has confirmed I'm not eating them like a savage so it's nothing I can do about it

Holy cow! 3 packets of crisps back to back at breakfast time??

Eh? Once a month he stays up all night drinking?

As a crisp lover, YABU.
It's not like he was sat in bed next to you eating them! And I could easily do 3 packs back to back, that's only the equivalent to ĵust over half a sharing bag (which I could definitely get through know a hangover).
Have you tried white noise or loop ear plugs?

Good to know that I'm not alone in this!

He hadn't been drinking all night- he got home around 2am-ish after being out with his mates and then stayed up gaming (and eating crisps).

That's one sound I cannot bear. I feel my rage rising when I hear that noise.

He must be a mega cruncher, if you heard it from your bedroom

That's still annoying, good job you don't have kids

I have the opposite, when I eat Cereal (with my mouth closed) my husband acts like I'm the loudest thing on the planet

OP you need to carefully squash the crisps in the bags so there are none left to crunch and pretend a bag packer did it in the shop by putting heavy stuff on them

If he is drinking, hide the crisps.

However, re this He eats crisps by crunching his teeth on them before closing his mouth, amplifying the sound.

Some crisps are really large, how are you supposed to get them in your mouth whole without first biting them?

Jeez, lighten up a bit. Some crisps after a few drinks is hardly the crime of the century. Unless your house is made of tissue paper, it can't have been that loud - did you close your bedroom door?

Do you have misophonia maybe?

It's pretty disgusting sleeping in a bed with cats.

Next time he goes out, hide all the bloody crisps (and anything else noisy to eat)

How old is he? The behaviour sounds like someone late teens, early twenties, when doing an “all-nighter” regularly was a right of passage.

Oof yeah. I find that way grosser than eating crisps loudly.

@WallaceinAnderland it is perfectly possible to close your lips before biting a large crisp. My DH also bites the crisps with his mouth 'open' and it drives me batty! I have tried to show him how to do it quietly but at 70 he is probably too old to learn. He also does multiple nibbling... He will nibble away at a pretzel stick until he can finally get it all in his mouth.

@Psilence I feel your pain. However there's nothing wrong with crisps for breakfast!

Hide the crisps. Can't eat if can't find. My cats sleep every night with me

I’ve got the rage.

I think you oughta chill, really.
What's with the rage towards spouses on Sunday evening?
I could list my husband's bad habits (and mine)
and it would do F all for me.
Concentrate on the good bits!
😁

Apparently I eat crisps loud and could easily eat 3 packs with a drink.

Is he still asleep at gone 6pm??

Mine too. One of them's right beside me now. Nothing disgusting about it.

I just want to know, if the cats stayed on the bed, when they heard the rustling of crisp packets?! Mine definitely wouldn't have done. He could've been fast asleep under the radiator in the conservatory at the back of the bungalow, but as soon as a crisp packet rustled in the living room at the front he shot in there like a rocket.