Page 5 | DH always making some sort of noise.

Yourinmyspot · 2026-02-22T20:13:51+00:00

As said in the title DH is always making some sort of noise he’s either burping, groaning, coughing, sniffing, biting his nails or snoring it drives me mad! I know some of it is me as I’ve never been very good with noise, but sometimes I think will you just shut up.

Mymanyellow · 24/02/2026 20:30

I’m sorry it must be infuriating but this is making me laugh. Whistling the MASH tune driving up the motorway, chicken noises running up the stairs, and the leather rocking chair have been highlights.

Zov · 24/02/2026 21:07

Belladog1 · 24/02/2026 11:10

My partner is the same.

On the days he works from home and I am downstairs, I hear him shuffling in his chair constantly. The man can't sit still. I have one of those heavy carpet plastic protector things under the office chairs, and every day it has moved out of place - even though it is really heavy.

He belches all the time. He does apologise for it - but I don't think he knows he is doing it half the time. It's worse when he has just eaten.

If I am working from home too, we work side by side - and he won't let the silence just happen and let me work. If I am quiet for longer than a minute he is asking if I am OK, do I need a coffee, walks over the hug me, tuts and moans about his teams meeting. It just constant chatter. I generally take myself downstairs and work from the dining room table just for a bit of space.

Urgh, this raised my hackles! My DH is similar. I WFH most of the time, and HAVE to do my work when he's at work, or asleep in bed. (Luckily my hours are flexible.) I can NOT do anything when he's at home, and stuck in the lounge with me.. I can't work, or even read a magazine or a book, or watch anything I want... It's exasperating.

I cannot WAIT for the nicer, sunny weather so I can go into the garden, and read, and chill, (and even do my work there,) and just have some QUIET.

Like your DH, if I am a bit 'quiet' he says 'are you OK?' and I say 'errr yes.' (Which I am...) Then he keeps on and on, and says 'only you seem quiet and a bit aloof, it's not me is it?' Then I'm like.... 'no!' He shuts up then, and 5 minutes later it's 'you sure you're OK - you seem down and quiet..' Last time this happened I said 'well I WAS OK, but NOW I feel annoyed and pissed off because you keep bugging me. For fuck's sake!' Then HE goes into a sulk because I've snapped at him!!! He just can't allow any period of silence that is longer than 2 minutes...

He is currently pissing me off CONSTANTLY showing me TikTok videos, every fucking 10 minutes... (He discovered TikTok 3-4 weeks ago... YES really!) 'Have you seen this?' and 'have you seen that?' And he holds his fucking phone in front of my face so I can see what he's looking at.. JUST FUCK OFF!

And the demands for hugs! Makes me want to SCREAM. Sometimes I go to leave the room to go for a pee, and he stands up and puts his arms out and says 'Huggg-eeee.' I'm like He says 'big hug, or you can't get past.' I have started saying 'I need a piss, get out of my fucking way!'

I feel like such a cunt, but he is soooooooooooooo annoying. Like I said, earlier in the thread, he is like an overgrown toddler sometimes. I don't want a hug, I want a fucking piss! Sometimes I hug him reluctantly as he has insisted on it, and I don't like being TOLD I need to hug him.

He has said (a few times) 'awww you seem annoyed at actually giving me a hug. Your own husband!' I'm just like His over tactileness and neediness leaves me cold. If he would back off and just chill, he would get more from me.

I wish he would get some hobbies and friends and fuck off out a bit more.

Familiarity breeeds contempt and all that.

I have no idea why he is like this!

He is currently watching one of HIS programmes while I'm on Mumsnet, and he is giving me the usual running commentary. I have switched off and am ignoring him. #sorrynotsorry. He can watch what HE wants, but needs to fuck off giving me a running commentary, and stopping me from enjoying what I am doing to pay attention to every fucking thing HE is doing.

AHHHHH.... Great rant. I feel a bit better now. SO glad it's not just me (and my DH!)

The 'so glad I'm single' comments on here are tedious though. Yeah? Good for you! As I said, I don't want to be single and alone, I just wish he would get out more, get some hobbies, and stop relying on me for his emotional support, and stop TALKING so much!

SlimShandy · 24/02/2026 21:35

I've just had to leave the room because mine has a deviated septum and was eating a satsuma. I've absolutely no idea how he makes so much fucking noise. Then he randomly whistled Salt n' Pepper's 'Push it', but just the first 17 notes, over and over, whilst watching some golf bollox on YouTube.

I often tell him no jury would convict me.

Benchdogs · 24/02/2026 21:50

He belches all the time. He does apologise for it - but I don't think he knows he is doing it half the time. It's worse when he has just eaten.

This is the one thing I wish I could change about mine. Constant small, silent belching and the catch in his breath that follows it. He thinks I don’t notice. It absolutely disgusts me and I wish there was some treatment for it.

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Is that you, DH?

ThePoshUns · 24/02/2026 22:01

Mine has suddenly started breathing very loudly through his nose when eating. It’s a new thing and it is so annoying but no matter how many times I ask him not to he carries on doing it.

tellmesomethingtrue · 24/02/2026 22:46

BeardedBarley · 22/02/2026 20:28

Mine is similar. He’s always singing, or making random noises. He’s in the shower now and I can hear him singing the same song he’s been singing ALL DAY (Stephen Sanchez - Until I Found You, if you’re interested). But he’s also whistling and chirruping.

He is simply never silent. I think silence makes him uncomfortable. It’s infuriating. I tell him he has Tourette’s. And I’m only slightly joking.

More likely to be stimming than Tourette’s

WhereAreWeNow · 24/02/2026 22:49

Same! It's constant: snoring, sniffing, snorting, slurping, burping, farting, shuffling, clomping. It drives me nuts.

tellmesomethingtrue · 24/02/2026 22:50

Drums, clicks, burps, snorts, snores, stupid sneezes, loud yawns - now ex husband.

Alpacajigsaw · 24/02/2026 22:52

Mine is the same always making some sort of racket or banging around, or clicking a pen, crunching ice poles, does my head in.

BinseyPoplars · 24/02/2026 22:56

Fgfgfg · 23/02/2026 22:50

DP is fairly quiet except for performative sneezing. Why does it have to be so loud and explosive? I make a comment and the look on his face is that of a wounded puppy. The thing that really winds me up though is the foot/leg jiggling. Always quiet but always visible out of the corner of my eye. Sometimes I just look at the foot in an accusatory way and he stops. I look away and 30 seconds later off he goes and there it is, just at the edge of my field of vision, jiggling away.

This drives me MAD; I just don’t get why they have to do it (the sneezing I mean!)

Zippidydoodah · 24/02/2026 22:57

CB2611 · 22/02/2026 20:14

I would have to murder him tbh

🤣🤣🤣

BigAnne · 24/02/2026 23:00

SlimShandy · 24/02/2026 21:35

I've just had to leave the room because mine has a deviated septum and was eating a satsuma. I've absolutely no idea how he makes so much fucking noise. Then he randomly whistled Salt n' Pepper's 'Push it', but just the first 17 notes, over and over, whilst watching some golf bollox on YouTube.

I often tell him no jury would convict me.

Tears are streaming down my face 😂

Zippidydoodah · 24/02/2026 23:00

Blarn · 23/02/2026 22:01

I am listening to loud yawning right now. Yawning makes a noise, I know. He's tired, I know. But why the loud gasping noise with it? Every few minutes, loud, excessive yawning.

Did you tell him to go the fuck to bed? 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

WhatterySquash · 24/02/2026 23:17

DP is fairly quiet except for performative sneezing. Why does it have to be so loud and explosive? I make a comment and the look on his face is that of a wounded puppy. The thing that really winds me up though is the foot/leg jiggling.

I was going to post that it's such a relief since I left my ex and his annoying noises/behaviours... but it looks like he ended up with you! My condolences.

Pinkwhales · 25/02/2026 06:46

I swear if my H breathes one more time🤬🤬🤬 I'm throwing him in the bin lorry.

Also why can't he just sit in his chair without performing a dying man routine 😠Just sit down/get up, there is no need to make loud gasps/sighs/grunts every single time. I may chuck his chair in the bin lorry too.

NotMeAtAll · 25/02/2026 06:53

I come to the conclusion that other people are just annoying cunts.

Zov · 25/02/2026 10:03

Pinkwhales · 25/02/2026 06:46

I swear if my H breathes one more time🤬🤬🤬 I'm throwing him in the bin lorry.

Also why can't he just sit in his chair without performing a dying man routine 😠Just sit down/get up, there is no need to make loud gasps/sighs/grunts every single time. I may chuck his chair in the bin lorry too.

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And the loud chomping when they're eating, and slurping when they're drinking, and a loud a performative 'aaaahhhhhhhh' when they've had a sip of coffee or tea.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yourinmyspot · 25/02/2026 16:30

Zov · 23/02/2026 22:34

OMG yes, men just HAVE to be heard don't they? My DH is soooo annoying sometimes. I am on my PC, or trying to read a book, and he is watching one of HIS shitty programmes, and does he watch it quietly, and leave me in peace?

Does. He. FUCK. He jibber jabbers all the way through it, and gives me a running commentary. Even though I DO NOT GIVE A SHIT about what is happening. I can't concentrate on what I am looking at or reading because he keeps chatting shit! I have got into the habit of putting my MP3 player on and saying 'I will let you watch your programme. I am listening to my music.' When a lull in the music comes up/a break between songs, I can hear him muttering, and still saying things. He STILL tries to fucking talk. I ignore him. #sorrynotsorry

He often follows me around when I am trying to do something, ANYthing, and keeps talking.. I cannot watch anything I want to watch until he is at work, or has fucked off to bed. Luckily, he gets tired easily, and goes to bed at 9pm most nights. I inwardly cheer when he goes!

I know I sound like I hate him. I don't. We do have some good conversations sometimes, and some laughs, and we go out together for a pub lunch or a breakfast or the theatre or a day trip, and it's fine. And I do enjoy his company SOMETIMES. And we do have TV shows we both like - and watch. But I need my ME time, and to be left alone to read, chill, relax, watch something I want to watch in peace, and just be left alone.

But HE can't be alone, and he won't go out alone. He will rarely go out without me. I go out without him, and sometimes WITH him, but he will rarely go out alone. He struggles to do silence and tranquility. About 80% of the time, he has to fill in every second of silence with SOMEthing. A 'hmmmm,' or a 'ahhhhh,' or a 'humph!' or a 'well, I don't know!' Trying to engage in conversation with me. Grunts, sighs, moans, well well well... Just ARGH!

This is why many women cannot stand their men being at home all the time (and struggled when they were working from home, and also when they retire) because the presence of a man is often just so domineering and loud. They HAVE to be heard and seen, and seem to be unable to sit quietly and calmly. They are like overgrown toddlers.

Not all men of course, but some. It seems to be men who have few friends and almost zero hobbies, and they depend on their wife for emotional support and company, and don't seem to be able to occupy themselves. My dad wasn't like this, but he had a dozen mates, and 4 or 5 hobbies, and spent half his waking hours (when not working) occupying himself with hobbies and interests. My DH and men like him (like many men referrred to on here) rarely go out, and have very few friends.

I look forward to the spring and summer so I can get in the garden and go out for long walks, to get away from him a bit. In the winter I am stuck in (with him jibber jabbering about fuck-all to just fill the silence.)

I do have occasions when I envy women who live alone, but then we have a good laugh and a good time together and I enjoy his company, and realise I DON'T want to be single and alone, I just want him to fuck off out a bit more and give me some time to myself. OR stay in but be quiet for a bit and let me have some peace...

Yes exactly this, he never goes out anywhere on his days off work, the bloody telly is always on and he’s just there! He’s going to be dropping a few shifts at work soon, he’s going to have to find a hobby or I’m going to be the fittest I’ve ever been with all the walks I will end up doing.

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Blarn · 25/02/2026 19:43

Zippidydoodah · 24/02/2026 23:00

Did you tell him to go the fuck to bed? 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

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I went to bed instead! Got comfortable and read for a bit. In silence!