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Can’t stand husband 😂 anyone else

125 replies

omgcomeon · Yesterday 09:07

I know I sound horrible. I know I’ll get lots of hate saying leave him the poor man but I know a lot of women feel the same.
I love him but he just gets on my nerves anyone feel the same? Give me stories / things your husbands do that grate on you like a fork on a brick wall. 😂 I know I sound vile. I’m honestly not, just ughhhhh shudder.

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Missingmymeds · Yesterday 10:39

Mine ..had this habit of eating salt and vinegar crisps in bed with ketchup to dip in.
It upset me so much I often ended up in tears ... despite me asking him not to ,he carried on eating in bed .
So as I am the only person who ventures in to a supermarket
I just stopped buying anything he ate in bed
We got as far as never having bread in the house , before he realised every time he ate in bed I didn't buy the food items again..
We got there in the end ...

SaltedCaramelGu · Yesterday 10:40

This is so sad.

I would be heartbroken if my DH spoke of me like this.

Missingmymeds · Yesterday 10:45

The other thing he does as well ..is any decent healthy meals,that I make for the family.. lasagne, cottage pie ,meat pie , casserole ect
He started saying.. before I started cooking..he wanted pizza or burgers or chips .or both ..this got to the point where he was dictating every meal ..my food bill had shot up and it's pizza or burgers every night ..
So I stopped buying pizza and burgers and chips
Plus ...I don't waste food ever ...
So all the times he was refusing the home cooked meals ,I made them anyway for the kids ,but just froze the leftovers.
So the freezer is now full of individual meals ..he's having to take to work for his lunch ..no point buying more food when the freezer is full

Missingmymeds · Yesterday 10:46

I'm pretty sure I'm heavily medicated..just to cope with him

beaglescurleduplikebagels · Yesterday 10:47

If my partner felt like this about me I'd be devastated.

For his own sake, leave him so he can find someone who actually likes him.

Anextrasetofhands11 · Yesterday 10:47

gannett · Yesterday 10:23

When I read posts like this with that random "I love him" in the midst of all the loathing I wonder what posters think love means? To me "I love him" can't really coexist with "I can't stand him". The latter goes way beyond the usual minor annoyances.

If you really can't stand someone you shouldn't be in a relationship with them. If you choose to be in a relationship with someone then tolerating their various habits is the bare minimum.

I think the post is tongue in ckeek... Not literal.

Beachbeach · Yesterday 10:48

All these holier than thou replies yawn.

it’s normal to find your husband fucking annoying sometimes

Frazzledfringe · Yesterday 10:49

The 2 things that husband has pissed me off with this week while on holiday.

  1. Tuesday night had a nightmare and literally was flailing his arms and legs everywhere, lucky I didn’t get socked in the back of the head. Bunked in my DD’s room since.
  2. This morning my DD commented when I got up that “Dad says you’ve always got an excuse for being tired”. I went fucking mental at him for his lack of empathy, I’ve had blood tests trying to investigate why I’m always tired and trying to get to the bottom of it. Starting to think maybe the reason is because I’m married to a wanker.
Missingmymeds · Yesterday 10:50

Frazzledfringe · Yesterday 10:49

The 2 things that husband has pissed me off with this week while on holiday.

  1. Tuesday night had a nightmare and literally was flailing his arms and legs everywhere, lucky I didn’t get socked in the back of the head. Bunked in my DD’s room since.
  2. This morning my DD commented when I got up that “Dad says you’ve always got an excuse for being tired”. I went fucking mental at him for his lack of empathy, I’ve had blood tests trying to investigate why I’m always tired and trying to get to the bottom of it. Starting to think maybe the reason is because I’m married to a wanker.

Sometimes I think that to ..the wanker bit ..

Bluenotgreen · Yesterday 10:51

It sounds like you might have the ick. There’s no coming back from that.

beaglescurleduplikebagels · Yesterday 10:51

Beachbeach · Yesterday 10:48

All these holier than thou replies yawn.

it’s normal to find your husband fucking annoying sometimes

Sure, but not to the point that you're bitching about them online and going on and on about how you can't stand them.

If a woman came on here saying she'd heard her husband bitching about her like this, everyone would be saying how awful he was and that she should leave him and find someone who actually like and respects her.

MeganM3 · Yesterday 10:51

My partner stands behind me in the kitchen all the time every time I need to get to the sink he’s sure enough blocking it. Emptying the bin every time I need to grab something out the cupboard or needing a tea right when I’m boiling water for pasta. Reheating a curry the moment I’ve scrubbed the microwave. Anything to get in my way the 30 mins or so I need to use the kitchen per day. We have a big kitchen too, there’s just no reason to take up so much space. Similar with bathroom.

Swiftie1878 · Yesterday 10:52

Bluebeast · Yesterday 10:27

Aside from the black and white mix up - which would piss me right off...

He's woken up and cooked breakfast for the children and you've gone out to drink coffee and read a book in a coffee shop. Tonight he will buy a nice takeaway. Regarding the milk, have you never forgotten anything in the supermarket?

Thank you! I thought exactly the same!!

AnneLovesGilbert · Yesterday 10:55

AnitaCam · Yesterday 10:26

A friend at lunch randomly said of her husband ‘ I think Vincent is …. Really stupid’

I must admit I struggled to see the love. I guess marriage is a curates egg!

More fool her for staying with Vincent. There must be reasons she does.

Neemi1201 · Yesterday 10:56

I hated my DH for roughly a year after the birth of each of my two boys. Especially if he made any noise that could potentially waken either of them....he's a flat footed walker, so sounds like an elephant stomping round the house, I could honestly have murdered him just for walking, when the kids were little and asleep 😂Now the boys are older, I generally like him!

MrsShawnHatosy · Yesterday 10:57

PermanentTemporary · Yesterday 10:30

Dp and I genuinely live in a bubble of pink mutual appreciation and extremely rare annoyance (I annoy him occasionally but frankly I would try the patience of a saint). That’s because our children are adults, our parents are nearly all dead, we have plenty of money, we’ve only been together 6 years so still fancy each other, and I don’t have periods any more. It’s normal enough to have moments of hate when you’re in the trenches buried under nappies, bills, his mother, hormone tides and emails from primary school about Wrld Fcking B*k Dy.

DH and I have been married 36 years and in a similar situation - retired, no surviving parents, but no children (nature said no). Love DH to bits, respect him and still fancy him as he does me. Of course he has annoying habits as do I. But if your partner’s annoying habits get in the way of your feelings for them you shouldn’t be together imo.

waitingforlifeonmars · Yesterday 10:57

Some people have had a bit of a humour bypass this morning. Mine eats really loudly. He breathes really loudly. He snores and somehow clicks in his sleep also! So aside from eating breathing and sleeping loudly …

ThatCyanCat · Yesterday 11:02

MeganM3 · Yesterday 10:51

My partner stands behind me in the kitchen all the time every time I need to get to the sink he’s sure enough blocking it. Emptying the bin every time I need to grab something out the cupboard or needing a tea right when I’m boiling water for pasta. Reheating a curry the moment I’ve scrubbed the microwave. Anything to get in my way the 30 mins or so I need to use the kitchen per day. We have a big kitchen too, there’s just no reason to take up so much space. Similar with bathroom.

Behind every great man is THE FUCKING CUPBOARD HIS WIFE IS TRYING TO REACH!!!

GreenCaterpillarOnALeaf · Yesterday 11:18

I truly love my husband and I believe that god or the universe dropped him out of the sky for my personal enjoyment… but

  1. He wears these ugly old man slippers and I just HATE them. He has 10 pairs stocked in the loft so he’s “set for life” so I will never be rid of them.
  2. He is really tidy but when he comes in he just basically takes his shoes off and he doesn’t make them neat he just like discards them.
  3. He doesn’t towel dry his at all he says it makes it frizzy and leads to balding (??) he just lets it air dry and drips all over. To give him credit he does clean up any drips but it still annoys me.
  4. I enjoy a drunk ciggy when we go on holiday (without the kids) and he vapes 🤢. Sorry I just hate vaping like put the grape lost Mary down you’re 28 years old bro.
  5. Fugly quarter zip. I’ve hated this thing since we met but it lives on. If we ever move house I’m going to “lose it”.
  6. Whenever I make lasagna (his favourite food) he asks 1) are you making the béchamel from scratch? and 2) are you gonna make it cheesy? Like mate I know how you like your lasagna I’ve been doing this for you for ten years!!
askmenow · Yesterday 11:35

ThatCyanCat · Yesterday 11:02

Behind every great man is THE FUCKING CUPBOARD HIS WIFE IS TRYING TO REACH!!!

It’s true, they are just SO BIG/ occupy so much space and all when you’re rushing about!
Also drives me mad he’ll go from room to room emptyhanded, without carrying stuff to put away.

It’s almost like he can only focus on one thing at a time while I’m constantly multitasking/ thinking ahead.

But there are sooo many good points too and I have my own foibles so most of the time I’ll keep sschtum.

RosaNovella · Yesterday 11:50

Mycatisreal · Yesterday 09:52

As we were trying to go to sleep last night he kept yawning and making this clicking noise. I was this far from punching his head into the pillow.

Own room
Utter bliss

DressOrSkirt · Yesterday 11:52

I can't imagine living with someone I couldn't stand!

RosaNovella · Yesterday 11:58

Oh god the poor bloke crew are here!🙄
Husbands can be annoying
Wait until you retire and hes in the house ALL THE TIME
Mine would ask me all the time what I was doing next
FO I know what Im doing thanks!

We are through it now, he keeps himself busy but I love it when he goes out!
Meno means your tolerance hormones plummit , its a common time for divorce
If he died or left me I would never live with another man or even bother with one

heresiarch · Yesterday 12:10

Absolutely. The utter temerity of a man would thinks he's entitled to spend time in his own home with his wife. What an utter bastard! He should know he's not allowed inside!

ForLuckyCat · Yesterday 12:13

This made me laugh. I’m the exact same. Too many annoyances to list. And at a certain time of the month I even think about divorce 🤣🤣 x