Partner moves furniture and doesn't put it back

[boilinthebag]

This is not a big thing but it leads me down a path of not being listened to properly. In our living room is a bay window with a table in it where I often like to sit in the mornings with a coffee or snack. My partner (we are both in our 70s) pulls this table back about a foot into the room in order to pull the curtains at night. He never replaces the table in the place where it normally sits. Same in the morning if it is him who opens them. I have multiple times requested that he pulls the table back in place afterwards. I mean multiple times. So I approach the table with my snack or coffee and I can't sit down before I have to push the table back into place. I absolutely know this sounds so trivial, but it is because he just won't do it! despite asking so many times. It makes me sound very pernickety. However it sort of annoys me at some deep level to come into the room and find the furniture not in the right place! I guess I will get called all variations of 'narrow-minded old henpecker' but hey ho.

With a clever arrangement of stout hinges, springs and levers it should be possible to arrange for the table to pivot out of the way of the curtains and then automatically return to its god-given position afterwards.

Whilst constructing this, I'd recommend simultaneous construction of a bed which rotated to approximately 80 degrees of vertical, slid you out smoothly and deposited you into your clothes for the day. Would you consider eating wensleydale with your breakfast perchance?

God this is how we grew up when younger and my mother in laws house is the same furniture placed in the way. if you need to access an area there shouldn't be stuff in the way. drove me round the bend. and always ended up either back in the wrong place or knocking stuff down
it's a faff to have to keep moving stuff out of the way the whole time - just move the table permanently or fix curtains ti close and open without having to move it
nothing is in the way closing the curtains in my house and also take husbands consideration when placing furniture.

Get electric curtains 😂

It sounds like you have different ideas about the right place for the table. In your opinion, you think he's moved it to the wrong place but he probably thinks the same, when he goes to shut the curtains and thinks why has she pushed the table in the way again. You said it's light and easy to move so it's not really worth the drama fussing over it surely.

@boilinthebag not 'narrow minded old henpecker', no...but maybe 'dyed in the wool creature of habit'?

The one thing you haven't explained at any point is WHY right up to the windowsill is the only 'correct' place for the table. What does being 1 foot back from the sill prevent? Why can't you sit with your snack with a gap between the table & the window?

When it comes to being unreasonable, I naturally gravitate towards team DP because you've not established why your preferred position of the table has any natural advantage over his preferred position.

As others have said, getting a track with a pull-to-close string system on one side of the bay only is clearly the best solution. If it's not worth this much money to you, suck it up!