Why dosen't daddy listen properly?!!

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Said to Dh, can you watch dd, whilst i pop upstairs to do the hoovering or would you like to hoover and i'll stay with DD?
He opted for staying with DD (thinking it was the easiest option obviously), but now she is crawling and into everything i meant it when i said watch her!
Anyway i came back down to find her happily tearing the wallpaper off of the lounge wall and daddy?........ watching a motorbike dvd!!!!!!!!!!!!

The answer is BECAUSE HE'S A MAN!

I've got one of those.

HA SOunds about right.

ah yes, DH only has the ability to hear the first part of any given sentence.. thus

"Could you get DS's dinner out the freezer and defrost it please"

becomes

"Could you get DS's dinner out of the freezer. Full stop"

hence, screaming hungry child and frozen dinner

I could give many examples.

I think its called 'Man Ears'

We have both Man Ears and Man Eyes (the inability to find something even though it may be right in front of you) in our house.

I always find that if I ask DH to bring back food or other necessary items home with him from work I'm met with " Oh I'll try to remember" but if I ask for wine or beer miraculously there is no problem with him getting them

Ihave a DH and two DS's I feel as if every thing I say just comes out as wawawawawawwawawawaw. Like the teacher on the Peanuts cartoon. I speak a different language' no one ever hears wht I say in my house, drives me insane!

sheraz. I'd forgotten about that teacher

sounds just like my house, dp, 2 ds s and even the 2 dogs(even though they are girls) dont even seem to hear me half the time.. selective hearing!!

lol at this thread - sooooo true, poppie has it spot on, my DH has man ears, man eyes, and if he walks in from work one more time and says he's exhausted (poor love) and asks me if I've a "lovely day" at home I will be asking a fellow Mnetter to post bail........

I know i'm not alone. Lol at some of these stories.
Oh well, if he starts moaning when he has to decorate, i shall remind him why!!

PMSL

I think I must have a weird imagination this evening

Must get out more.

lol, so true poppie!!! I just glare at him and say "yeah, fantastic, had a few drinks, watched a film, took a siesta...." you would think he'd of learnt by now, but oh yeah, that's right he has man brain lol

MIL told father in law all he had to do was take his meal out of the freezer and defrost in microwave for 2 mins.

He took it out - left it in the microwave for 2 minutes (didn't press any buttons) and then binned it because it hadn't defrosted!

Your dh will probably improve when your dd brings him stuff to play with.

PMSL - is that true about the microwave???? classic!

And if DH asks me one more time' Have you seen my keys/wallett/ID card etc; I will scream...........

Me too - mine is always losing things!

I think the computer steals dp's hearing. He never ever ever hears anything at all when logged on.

However would they cope without us?!!! We are all saints!

DP does this all the time and it REALLY does my head in! Yesterday I had to turn the tv off so he would answer dd when she was trying to get him to look at her book with her.

It totally is man ears/eys/brain etc but why should they be allowed to get away with it?? What would happen if we went around like that??!

I am due to go on a residential course for 2 weeks, cannot wait to see how DH copes. hahahahahaha!

If your men do this most of the time why are you still with them. Isn't life about being in a partnership giving and taking from both sides, getting things right. I did a thread on this recently, but most of the replies i got were women saying it was better than being on your own..

I did not reply as i thought that i was being considered as a verbal and mental slave to my partner. (ie me having to think all the time for him and me having to do things because he could not remember anything. Also i think they said sex was a big deal to leave...
I hope i have put this in a nice way,i just wanted your thoughts on this matter as i can no longer bare it. (10 years of hell)

i'm sure I read somewhere, that research had shown that men process women's voices(higher pitched) in a different part of their brain from men's voices(lower pitched)
So there is a degree of it which is neurobiology.
Made me laugh but it does make sense in respect that often they cannot remember anything you said.
Tiger1, I think the sexes are so different in some ways and I'm sure i do lots of things that drive DH mad. Sometimes I find it easier to let these things wash over you/find a different way to direct them.

Please help me with the different way to direct.
How come they can not do an up to date documentary from both sides. See all my partners friends wnd him are the same. Hence why they are all friends. Mymale friends are much more able, willing, far less forgetful and this is how i know men to be. I just chose the wrong one i guess..

I'm be amazed, chuffed and shocked in the same instance if I got a 'How was your day'. All I get is, Get me a beer, what's for dinner and then silence all night cos he can't be arsed to talk, unless his mate phones up.

Tiger1, at one point i made it all into a big joke about how we had alternative rules in our house such as
1)Never return any thing to the fridge if you have taken it out
2)Never put anything back in the cupboard after taking it out and never ever put the lid back on
3)If in doubt, try to do something as messily as possible
Made DH laugh and now whenever he lives by these rules we can laugh rather than me going on, which at least feels less negative for me
Still I think everyone has the same sort of problems, some worse than others.
Does sometimes drive me crazy, most of the time makes me laugh.
Sometimes I get DH to sign in my diary that I have told him something, to prove to him I did say it, so i don't look like the forgetful one