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Why are (some specifically mine) men like this?

285 replies

TakingBackSunday · 09/03/2025 00:52

DH has gone out tonight okay fine, asked me to drop him off but forgot to tell me about the football match so spent 40 minutes in traffic with two kids ... fine whatever, he could have gotten a taxi tho 🙄

Refused to take the keys because he'd be back at 12 (been out since 5) as he knows I can't go to bed without locking the door as I don't feel safe sleeping with two kids and the door unlocked.

Hasn't messaged me since 10pm

Wonder when he'll get home .. wonder when I'll get to go to bed.

Bet he expects me to get up with them tomorrow as well Hmm

OP posts:
LovelyLeitrim · 11/03/2025 20:07

Sometimesright · 11/03/2025 19:42

Ffs! I wasn’t treating him like anything it was tongue in cheek as many of our conversations are! When you still have a happy relationship with full trust where you laugh everyday and you are still together after 40 years well then you can make snide comments. At least we are not beating each other ignoring each other and calling each other c**ts every weekend 🙄

38 years next month , do I not qualify then? I’ll come back and comment on your posts in two years?

You’re not the only happily married couple around!

😆

Sometimesright · 11/03/2025 20:08

LovelyLeitrim · 11/03/2025 20:07

38 years next month , do I not qualify then? I’ll come back and comment on your posts in two years?

You’re not the only happily married couple around!

😆

I’m really pleased to hear it. 😊

BitOutOfPractice · 11/03/2025 21:53

Sometimesright · 11/03/2025 19:02

I mean he has ( a very strong ) mind of his own but yeah i literally said don’t take those bloody keys! You can’t be trusted to look after them! And he just said sod off or something like it. It wasn’t an argument or even a disagreement I know he didn’t deliberately lose them but tbh it’s as easy for him to use the key safe as take them with him. At least they won’t get pinched again then

Well I can tell you right now that if you tried to tell me what keys I was or was not allowed to take out with me, you’d get very very short shrift from me. I agree he should separate them out. But “not allowed”? That’s a hard no from me.

FeetLikeFlippers · 12/03/2025 16:29

He effectively set himself a curfew of 12:00 so you should have just locked the door if he wasn’t back by then and sent him
a text telling him that.

janj52301 · 12/03/2025 20:02

we have a hidden key safe incase we forget our keys, get one so the idiot can let himself in without waking the house

fufulina · 12/03/2025 20:08

My DP is weird about keys. He will often refuse to take them then ring the bell. Drives me batshit. It’s like he wants to be welcomed home by a compliant welcoming wife. Which he knows isn’t me. Particularly when I feel like a fucking door slave!

MzHz · 13/03/2025 14:47

fufulina · 12/03/2025 20:08

My DP is weird about keys. He will often refuse to take them then ring the bell. Drives me batshit. It’s like he wants to be welcomed home by a compliant welcoming wife. Which he knows isn’t me. Particularly when I feel like a fucking door slave!

Why are you tolerating this? Why do you open the door?

Caroparo52 · 13/03/2025 14:55

Get a key box fitted tomorrow. Enough of this stupid behaviour

Roxy69 · 18/03/2025 17:50

TakingBackSunday · 09/03/2025 01:55

He's actually not that bad.

I'm just pissed off and tired, he won't get up with the kids cos he'll be hung over, tired whatever and if he does get up with them he'll just be miserable and probably fall asleep watching them so it's better I get up but it's just really frustrating and it could have been solved if he either took the keys when I gave them to him or come home at 12 like agreed.

Disconnect the doorbell.

LovelyLeitrim · 18/03/2025 17:55

Roxy69 · 18/03/2025 17:50

Disconnect the doorbell.

This was 9 days ago, I think OPs dealt with it, as per her updates!

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