What pathetic things do you do to get your own back on Dh/Dp ??

[Primadonnagirl]

When I'm angry with him I confess to having:
Hidden his keys
Put out of date food in his lunchbox
Taken the loo roll out of the bathroom
Not told him his Mum has rung...knowing he'd get into big trouble for not ringing back!!!!

[Fleecyslippers]

Sirchenjin. Does he know that you do.this ? Is he happy for you to do it ? Does his respiratory consultant know that you do it ? Because quite honestly this is right up there with the poster who dropped a car bonnet on her 'D'H in terms of normalising really disturbing behaviour.

[Mumsyblouse]

I do poke my husband or say 'roll over' or put a pillow between me and the dreaded machine (it blows cold air at you all night)- but I'm always up front about it. I just wouldn't find any of these things hilarious- missing keys when really stressed, taking a drink of vinegar instead of my usual drink- I guess I don't find practical jokes funny, I just don't.

I am quite surprised by this thread. I do sometimes do sneaky things like throw away some old t-shirts my husband hasn't worn for 2 years and are in an old bin bag without asking him, but I don't really see this in terms of 'lighthearted revenge' although I suppose I could. I don't think he's done anything like this to me ever!

[Mumsyblouse]

Actually- I don't find the out of date food thing funny either.

Really- you would give your husband say out of date ham in a sandwich, and then what? He'd be ill? He wouldn't notice (so what then)? I would just ask him if the ham smelled ok and if he wanted to use it.

I just don't get this, I do get very angry at my husband but secret revenge? Buying yourself flowers and pretending they are from someone else? Why?

[AnAirOfHope]

Hides thread.

You are all gaslighting your partners and i dont think i would do this to a teenagers as well because i think lead by example not normalise dysfunction.

[Noregrets78]

Fleecyslippers - because he has agreed to move out, but uses it at the moment as a tool to get what he wants... if you drop your solicitor I'll move out. If you agree to my demands on financial split I'll move out. If you give me more money I'll move out etc etc. If I moved out he wouldn't be able to afford the utility bills as he keeps refusing jobs. Long story and yes I'm joking - I wouldn't want to risk him getting his own back. And yes a friend has already suggested we watch war of the roses.....

[Primadonnagirl]

Out of date food was a bag of crisps... I'm not a monster.

[shelli135]

My DP just read this and his reaction was to laugh... Why take things so seriously?

It's not about 'revenge' that word is quite harsh.

Lighten up people

[lemmingcurd]

This is without a doubt THE best thread I've ever read on MN. I'm nearly 40 but have tears rolling doen face from laughing. Dragonmamma & the cat pongy breath ones are absolute classics. Keep them coming I need inspiration as am frequently wicked off with DH

[pumpkinsweetie]

Having got sick of seeing dh in his holey boxers with his balls hanging out, i decided to bin them all, making him atlast buy some new ones! He still wonders to this day where they went

[Lweji]

An out of date bag of crisps hardly counts as a prank or getting back at someone.
It's an usual occurrence in this house. (strictly not crisps, as they tend to disappear quickly)

[Primadonnagirl]

I know..that's why I said pathetic in the title..but it made me feel better so its all good!!

[NappyHappy]

Funny thread

Ive seen that couple on YT, mad as.

It mostly involves farting on the stairs when he has to walk up behind me.

He had really pissed me off once so I gave the boys sleigh bells and tambourines to play with whilst he was asleep.

[Mullinsamy]

Oh Jesus! Some people. Calm down. It is pranky fun, that no harm comes from. As the teenagers seem to be saying these days, calm your tits.

[cheeseandchive]

Before I add mine, I would like to clarify that the following incident was a practical joke that DH found very funny and is not a sad reflection on the state of our marriage.

May I continue? Oh, good...

We are newly married and an old housemate of mine came to stay the other week. Housemate and I were reminiscing about a practical joke that I and other housemates once played on her, so we decided to repeat it with DH. Housemates razor was on the edge of our bath, so I cut up the black, curly fibres from a hair donut and sprinkled them in the bath and round the edge of the razor - basically made the most realistic pubes I've ever seen in my life. So I call DH upstairs and in hushed tones tell him, horrified, that visiting housemate has left pubes all over the bath. I then drag him to the bathroom and show him, with the most horrified face I can muster, and beg him to clear them up.

Totally backfired on me though as my absolute sweetheart of a husband takes one look and doesn't even flinch, shuts the door to avoid embarrassing my friend and goes "yeah, of course love" and starts clearing up the 'pubey' razor and rinsing round the bath! What an absolute babe! I was suitably ashamed of myself after that

[PipkinsPal]

My OH thinks it's hilarious to pull down my trousers in full view of the street. I'm short and I sometimes wear elasticated waist, hanging around the house trousers. I have a set of steps to stand on to open the window, which looks out onto the road, when I'm cooking. My OH sneaks up behind me and yanks my trousers down. Now, sometimes I wear knickers under my trousers, sometimes I don't. I get my "revenge" later by standing outside the bathroom door and when he comes out I should "Boo". I really must stop doing that as his is now 50 and the last thing I want to do is put into practice my CPR training I did mention earlier I sometimes wait until he is in the shower and then flush the toilet or fill the kettle and wait for the air to turn blue

[Gillian1980]

I just don't get it at all, not my sense of humour I guess. If my DH did any of those things to me I wouldn't find them funny, I'd find it bloody irritating. I suspect he'd think the same.

We have plenty of fun together but it wouldn't even occur to me to play a "practical joke" on him, either as revenge or just for fun.

Each to their own...

[nenevomito]

Do people actually do this shit?

I'd rather talk to DH than behave like a child.

[pajamapants1]

Haha, tbd me and dh both do it to each other! I threw a cold cup of water at him because he pinched my shower time, so that night he moved 2of the latts on my side of the bed so my mattress had a big dip in it!
So the next day I changed all the settings on the sat nav so ALL the alarms go off when you get within a mile of shops or anything and made it moo if he went too fast. (he's a technophobe so has no idea how to change it) I havnt changed it back yet

[Nehru]

How weird.

I've never done any of these. You lot sound unhinged.

[Ragwort]

I am rather po-faced and would prefer the 'sit down discussion' but if he annoys me I do take great delight in taking a few coins from where he puts them each evening and donating them to charities he doesn't support .

[Primadonnagirl]

God there are some very serious households where everybody sits and talks about their feelings all the time..
.." You 've put all the glasses the wrong way in the dishwasher again. I just need to tell you how that makes me feel. I feel disrespected and hurt..let's get some counselling" ??!! Must be great to be perfect!

[Mockingcurl]

My husband is obsessed with sudoku and spends all evening completing them. It drives me mad, so when he leaves the room I change some of the numbers he has pencilled in. It amuses me no end to see him struggle to complete them.

[nenevomito]

Erm, not quite like that OP. More "don't be an arse and put the glasses in the wrong way". Job done.

Rather do that than sit quietly seething and putting out of date food in his lunchbox (and who the fuck makes their DH a packed lunch anyway??) or hiding his keys. Just saying like.

[cheeseandchive]

Some of these are amazing, I'm feeling inspired!

[Primadonnagirl]

mocking priceless!!