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Can’t stand husband 😂 anyone else

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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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holachicatita · Yesterday 15:18

Pollydarling · Yesterday 13:38

Ive Just had my 4th and bought a book called 'How to not hate your husband after kids' highly recommend it actually.
Alot of it pissed me off, seems in bits like it's justifying their behaviour due to evolution and how they are naturally wired but it has helped my understanding and own communication, I'm definitely more direct now and get better results.

Your fourth husband? Or fourth kid lol

Morethanalover · Yesterday 15:31

I'm not judging anybody for the gripes they express here, goodness knows in the run-up to my divorce I couldn't bear to be in the same room as my ex-dh, I do, however, think when it's at the point where these irritations get to you it's (the relationship) is done.

Spiderx · Yesterday 15:34

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.

Thank you. I'm sure the men on this site could " ditto" quite easily ...for instance ...why does she need soooo many different types of half finished shampoo bottles in the bathroom so I have to search for hours to find my one deoderant ????? Just saying....

ThatCyanCat · Yesterday 15:40

Spiderx · Yesterday 15:34

Thank you. I'm sure the men on this site could " ditto" quite easily ...for instance ...why does she need soooo many different types of half finished shampoo bottles in the bathroom so I have to search for hours to find my one deoderant ????? Just saying....

Edited

I was on a male oriented site years ago. They said worse than this.

Oganesson118 · Yesterday 15:42

The one thing that really irritates me is his snoring. I know he can't help it but it's loud, it's incessant and it just sounds gross.

Weeellokthen · Yesterday 15:42

Boreded · Yesterday 09:54

And the snoring…makes me wonder whether I would get caught if I suffocated him with my pillow.

But then I wouldn’t get the absolute gems such as ‘I remembered our anniversary just after midnight but I didn’t want to say happy anniversary in case you wanted to have sex with me’ 😂🤣 so I let him live.

😂

Weeellokthen · Yesterday 15:45

holachicatita · Yesterday 15:18

Your fourth husband? Or fourth kid lol

😂

Gettingbysomehow · Yesterday 15:47

I hated all three of them. There will not be a 4th.

Confusedmommadrama · Yesterday 15:51

Ohh my husband generally is very unannoying, but there’s a few key ones that annoy me

  1. hes very handy and naturally good at things (sports, music, talking to people etc). I am not. He cannot understand this and think I’m not ‘trying’. Prob something we’ve had our biggest rows about
  2. he thinks he’s tidier then me. He is not. We will both die on this hill
  3. Has to sleep with the TV on. Drives me MAD

apart from that, he’s a bloody good man!

Spiderx · Yesterday 15:53

ThatCyanCat · Yesterday 15:40

I was on a male oriented site years ago. They said worse than this.

Sad isn't .? Big dollop of tolerance needed all round. Live and let live

LiuBei · Yesterday 15:53

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!

Why does a lack of intelligence equal a lack of goodness. There are people who aren't that bright, but are caring, hard working, loving, and loyal.

I also don't think id love my partner more if they were smarter, so why should I suppose I'd love them less if they were more foolish.

Doozycan · Yesterday 16:23

Waste of a thread as OP didnt bother giving any details of her own @omgcomeon

Mammut · Yesterday 16:24

Mine needs a full time supervisor since he retired. Exasperating!

Gwenhwyfar · Yesterday 16:43

"It can be a hormonal thing.
As a regular time every month, pre menstrual cycle, everything, including my husband, would get on my tits, and then it would pass."

Yes, I'm currently hating my boyfriend. Pretty sure I'll be feeling better in a couple of days.
Sometimes I want to finish with him AND leave my job at that time of the month. It's lucky I can recognise it and haven't done either of those things!
Pretty scared what the later stage of perimenopause will be like for me.

Slightyamusedandsilly · Yesterday 16:51

Insists in moaning on to me about every bad thing in his life until HE feels better having talked it all out. Whereas by that point, I'm sick of my life and of him.

Believes everything in the mainstream media and when I tell him he could research things a bit to see if they're true, thinks I'M the mad one.

Does nothing about his mankey toenails and then thinks I'm unreasonable when I tell them he shouldn't wear sandals because they look bad.

Frequently put on clothes for a 2nd wear when they clearly have stains on them.

Thinks his POV is the normal, standard one and everyone else is deviant.

GreenCaterpillarOnALeaf · Yesterday 16:51

Also my DH left school with no qualifications and he’s done really well without them. I am a maths tutor. He’s got a really annoying habit of just asking me stuff he could do on his phone calculator. Like he will just shout them across the house. He’s stopped doing it so much now but his initial defence was “but you love maths!” Which is true but I don’t want a random times tables question when I’m cooking dinner. I guess it’s fair though because I do quiz the kids on their timetables on the spot.

GrumpyButOk · Yesterday 17:15

NNforthispost · Yesterday 13:06

@Loulou4022 ny H used to go away every couple of weeks and it helped so much. I’d even say it was blissful, and we appreciated the time together more. When we both wfh we get under each others feet. Don’t get me started on when I’m on a call with client and he’s singing in the background (which I’m sure he does on purpose).

I was wfh on an important video call with several new clients and my DH started flushing the toilet repeatedly. My office was next to bathroom and the doors were wide open. I kept trying to wave my foot out of the doorway to get his attention but no luck so I had to try to surreptiously close the door with my foot whilst still demonstrating something and talking on the call. Found out later he was trying to flush a load of kitchen roll and a piece of cake!?! He must have flushed it a dozen times, all clearly audible on the call. When I fumed at him afterwards he just looked confused and gormless. 🙄

Spiderx · Yesterday 18:49

Confusedmommadrama · Yesterday 15:51

Ohh my husband generally is very unannoying, but there’s a few key ones that annoy me

  1. hes very handy and naturally good at things (sports, music, talking to people etc). I am not. He cannot understand this and think I’m not ‘trying’. Prob something we’ve had our biggest rows about
  2. he thinks he’s tidier then me. He is not. We will both die on this hill
  3. Has to sleep with the TV on. Drives me MAD

apart from that, he’s a bloody good man!

Nobody likes a show off ! Lol 🤣Well done him ...and you 😊

ThatCyanCat · Yesterday 21:17

GrumpyButOk · Yesterday 17:15

I was wfh on an important video call with several new clients and my DH started flushing the toilet repeatedly. My office was next to bathroom and the doors were wide open. I kept trying to wave my foot out of the doorway to get his attention but no luck so I had to try to surreptiously close the door with my foot whilst still demonstrating something and talking on the call. Found out later he was trying to flush a load of kitchen roll and a piece of cake!?! He must have flushed it a dozen times, all clearly audible on the call. When I fumed at him afterwards he just looked confused and gormless. 🙄

Found out later he was trying to flush a load of kitchen roll and a piece of cake!?!

What?

ThatCyanCat · Yesterday 21:18

Spiderx · Yesterday 15:53

Sad isn't .? Big dollop of tolerance needed all round. Live and let live

I absolutely didn't tolerate some of their shit. Most of them were ok but some of them were psychopathic.

GrumpyButOk · Yesterday 21:41

ThatCyanCat · Yesterday 21:17

Found out later he was trying to flush a load of kitchen roll and a piece of cake!?!

What?

I know, right? Never did get a sensible explanation for it!

Meadowlands · Yesterday 22:44

My DH has annoying habits, but...... has anyone stopped to consider that we may annoy our DHs in many ways too ?
I'm sure I do.

Motuihe · Yesterday 23:36

I would highly recommend replacing him with a sportscar! Makes a much better companion and much more fun!

It is all a lady needs in her life :)

Pollydarling · Today 00:09

holachicatita · Yesterday 15:18

Your fourth husband? Or fourth kid lol

Haha kid, im one and done with the husband, never again 😅

SomersetCider · Today 01:15

ThatCyanCat · Yesterday 11:02

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

This is so true 😆 mine is a lovely man and very little he does annoys me, BUT he always decides he needs to make a cup of tea/rummage under the sink for a screwdriver/loiter around the cutlery drawer while I’m trying to cook (I am the cook in the family, he does other jobs). My son has inherited this habit so I have both of them in there loitering around and getting in my way. It’s nice that they are fond enough of me to gravitate to the room I am in but it drives me spare.

I remind them that I’m going back and forth with hot pans and need to get at the utensils without having to circumnavigate people who have the whole of the rest of the house to loiter around in, and to please go somewhere else. So they do, only to creep back in two minutes later 😡

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