Things that annoy you more than they should in your DP/DH... (or am I just an angry person and that's why im single!)

[usergoogle1]

It used to make me feel so angry when my dp would sigh. he's do it all.the.time. it got to the point where i would sometimes confuse his actual breathing with a sigh because i was so alert to it.

we broke up.

When I'm rushing about doing everything and he just sits staring into space and pretends he can't see me. I find this murder inducing annoying.

For the 50 years that I've been with DH, he will insist on pronouncing the word gown with a D on the end as in gownd.
God knows why.
His whole family do.
Still, the rest of the time he's pretty near damn perfect and I adore him (and his family).

Me too Don'tTouchMyCurls. I'm rushing round doing everything getting 3 kids ready and he just gets himself ready and then waits impatiently.

DH putting dishes beside the empty dishwasher or dumping clothes on the bed/round the house. Emptying the bin and not putting in a new bag. Getting home and dumping piles of mess round my finally tidy house.

Why do women put up with the laziness of these men? Have they always been like that or is it recent behaviour? If they've always been like it, why have more than one DC with them without adressing roles and fair share of housework/ caring for DC? Genuinely baffled.

Sighing while clutching my gownd

He does this weird clicking noise with his throat, sneezes ridiculously loudly and puts the toilet roll on the holder the wrong way round. Other than those things he's perfect obviously! Ha

Eating loudly, especially grapes oh my goodness I actually have to leave the room 😤
But then I hate any loud eaters, and those who eat with their mouth open - yuk.
The way he criticises my driving and parking, makes me want to break extra hard so he hits his head on the dash

Loud breathing, eating noises, playing with himself - these all put me into fight or flight mode where I can’t concentrate properly.

But I’m pretty gross myself so I don’t say anything

He tidies by moving everything out of sight. Just opens a cupboard/drawer/shed/pantry and lobs everything in it.

Feeling particularly murderous about it today as we have just had out Annual Shed Fight.

Every year around this time I need the hosepipe out of the shed. Every year I find it's been buried under fucking piles of shite dh has lobbed in the shed. Every year I start dragging everything out behind me to sort. Every year he sort of hovers around behind me, then randomly starts chucking stuff back in before I have sorted it swept the shed, binned all the crap and sorted places for stuff to go.

One year I will open the shed, shove him in it then lock the fecking thing up with him inside.

OP, sighing is the WORST (hyperbole). DH got cross this morning because I asked him what was wrong because he signed with his head in his hands. He claimed he wasn't allowed to breathe any more. IT WAS A SIGH!

This has been hilarious reading because I feel the exact same with my dp. Everything annoys me. Today he wanted a piece of kitchen roll and instead of ripping one off he pulled several sheets out tore one away then left the other s crumpled up sheets dumped on the side....still attached to the roll. It's ridiculous I know. And he leaves coffee pods from the coffee machine on the side rather than in the bin and I have purposely put a wash basket next to his side of the bed and he still gets undressed at night and leaves them on the floor.

In the morning he walks around the house listening to sport commentary podcasts really loudly on his portable speaker. I find it really intrusive. If I gave a shit about MMA I’d listen to it myself. And even then I’d use headphones!

Nothing major but when he has a shower every surface is soaking wet from steam. He says it's just what happens but only seems to be when he's used the bathroom.
Also, the 45 minute long trips to the toilet for a poo.

He used to repeat himself constantly when talking, it was almost like a stammer. (So I tried not to get annoyed.)

"the thing is babe, the thing is, the thing is, the thing is babe...blah"

Also used to wait until I'd gone to bed and then come and stand there fully clothed and start whinging about some shit, like my son had left an empty crisp packet on the coffee table. It wasn't the content of the argument, it was the fact he'd waited until I was naked and vulnerable until he started it.

Hypocrisy - used to complain that I spent £1.25 a day on a 6 pack of Aldi cola when he spent £7+ (???) on a pack of cigs every day.

My husband screams when he sneezes (and denies that he does). Sometimes he does it so loudly and suddenly that I nearly piss myself, it gives me such a fright!

He also insists on hoovering first and dusting after because "hoovering spreads the dust around". I've tried pointing out that the point of the Hoover is to suck up dust and dirt not spread it around, but he won't have it.

Interrupts and finishes my sentences, not only that but wrongly because he had no idea what I was actually going to say. In fact he doesn't do that any more because I got so annoyed about it so many times!

God, yes to soaking wet bathroom surfaces after a bath. Ffs. Waves his bloody cutlery around whilst eating. Does this weird opening and shutting thing with his mouth. Leaves small piles of crap around on otherwise clear surfaces, like letters, piece of string, coins, hanky, glasses case, newspaper cuttings.... I just dump them all on his bedside table. I wish I could live alone.

@honeylulu

"Screams when he sneezes" My son does this! It comes out of nowhere, he doesn't do the "Ahh... ahhh... ahh... choo", it's just "ARGH! CHOOOO!"

Frightens the shit out of me and any pets that are in the room.

My ex could annoy me just by breathing. It's how I knew I had to end it instead of moving in! But the eating noises were the worst. And the snorting noise.

And the fact he thought poking me in the back was foreplay

knickers on the floor in our en suite (or stuffed on top of the radiator in front of the same loo.

she just takes them off while she's on the loo before getting in the shower, and leaves them there.

if i go to pick them up "i'm just about to do that!" - er, no, there's 3 pairs, and they've been there for days.

also multiple pairs of pyjamas/nighties all stuffed on my pillow under the ridiculous "decoration" pillow.

apparently because she has different pairs, depending on how hot/cold it is (which she won't know til she goes to bed), or how hairy her legs are.

they're never on her side though.
like 4 sets at a time.

@Lost11235 same here with the no bin bag scenario! Says he finds it too difficult to place in the bin & tie it neatly so it stays put instead of sinking in to the bin once full (this is a man who builds HOUSES for a living!!!!)

Picking his nails!!!! And biting them!!!! Sends me in to a fucking rage!!!!

The way he sits on the sofa 🤣- he doesn't sit nicely he literally smashes it to bits the cushions are squashed & flat pack & it looks a state I have to beat the hell out of the cushions to get them in to the correct shape again!! Wish I could beat him with the cushions!!

Unpacking the shopping. Literally lobs everything away nothing stacked neatly the fridge is higgledy piggledy- pisses me right off!

Oh and not really his fault but being a brick layer means he's constantly covered in brick dust so every evening I have a film of dust on the hallway floor to contend with! Tried getting him to strip at the door but perhaps that's a step too far lol

I hate the way DH holds his knife. "Holds knife like pen." Sometimes I actually lose my appetite just watching him hold the thing limply in his hand like that.

He also shakes finger food before he eats it. He says it's to get rid of crumbs, but he does it with everything. If he ate even a carrot stick, he'd pick it up off the plate, shake it firmly twice, and then eat it. I've spent the past 13 years cringing at it.

He sneezes really loudly and actually says the word "atchoo" as he does it. I've asked why he needs to say the word, when he doesn't have to say "cough" to cough or "blink" to blink, but he says it's impossible not to say atchoo.

He gets hay fever quite badly and it can cause his nose to run a lot, so he sits at home with a piece of tissue corkscrews up one nostril, with the other end stuffed up the other. Sometimes I have to leave the room because I just can bear to look at it.

If he is buying a present for someone, birthday or even just getting something for DS while they’re out, he HAS to get something for himself also.

He’s not mean, we never argue over money (he’s the wage earner) but it’s the, I don’t know, selfishness? Greed? that irks me. It’s as if he can’t let someone else have anything without grabbing something for himself.

When I’m stuck breastfeeding at 2am I really hate my sleeping DH and his fucking useless nipples I am aware that is completely irrational.

A more rational pet hate is that he licks the spoon whilst cooking and then continues to stir the pot with it. He doesn’t see the issue as he says it’s no more disgusting than kissing a person

Oh jeez where to start. He works ft and I’m a sahm to our three kids (two with disabilities). I hate that he doesn’t take more interest in their education, that outside of just taking them somewhere he doesn’t do the details and relies on me to do it, I hate that he can be quite mean with money and wouldn’t care if we lived in a dump. I also don’t like that he lacks patience and can be quite short tempered.

Starts a sentence and doesn't finish it so I have to ask what he means. Had done this for years. Won't stop doing it. Whilst eating a curry puts all the rice bit by bit into the middle of it before he starts eating. I'm in a rage just writing that.

Fucking snoring, especially during the last 10 mins of whatever we’ve decided to watch together. Then when I’ve elbowed him awake,
he either says he wasn’t asleep(!) or wants to rewind it to recap. I’m raging just typing this😤