How is YOUR DP/H getting on your nerves in this lockdown?

[Zola1223]

Mine is playing video games all day and sometimes well into the night. The other day he came to bed at 3am and woke me up. We've not DTD once since the lockdown because his computer is sooooo much more important/interesting than his DW.

He's forgotten how to cook we used to take it in turns to make dinner but now I seem to be doing everything. When I asked him to cook the other day he managed to cock it all up.

He's also not replaced the toilet paper on 3 separate occasions

Tell me I am not the only one questioning my marriage

I hadn't realised he was such a bloody oversensitive motor mouth 😏

He can't hack me telling him to shut up & give my ears a rest from his rants without feeling very hard done by

I can't say anything remotely negative without being told I'm "having a go" at him

On the flip side, he complains about everything: waking up early, being woken up during the night, people being out on the street, neighbours using our shared garden, not having enough food, not being able to go to work, the list is endless!

StarrySimon, get financial stuff together, your life will not get better, leave as soon as you can you can’t bring a baby into this.

I’m really enjoying our time together. He plays Johnny to my Fanny most days and we are cooking up lots of treats. The muffins we made earlier today are particularly delicious 😋

DH and I are both still working full time, him at home and I'm in the office (NHS)

So not much is different other than the kids are bored and DD8 is bugging the life out of DSD19

I actually loved being at home with DH last week, but I don't know if he felt the same way...

He is hoovering a thousand times a day. The noise drives me up the wall and DC and I can't hear ourselves think!! He's also constantly doing DIY projects which is great because they need to be done and I understand that he's struggling without having a job to go to everyday but his new job is supposed to be looking after the DCs while I'm working from home, not needlessly covering every surface with white gloss paint while I try and do everything else on my own! He's also extremely hyperactive and just...everywhere.

not at all, we get on great

Mine keeps feeding me. So far I've had a biscuit, 2 slices of toast, bacon and beans on toast, a cheese toastie, a packet of crisps, some chicken skewers and chips to "see me through to supper" and god help me he's in the kitchen now. When lockdown is over I'll still be stuck in the house because I won't fit through the door.

Keeps going for very long runs (well, long to me - 10km etc) and coming back to the house with the kind of airy sanctimonious attitude only the smug runner can affect, making statements about how it's so good for the mind, I just feel so much better when I run, etc. it's probably true but I'm not a runner at all, or a natural exerciser. Before the lockdown I'd got good at going to the gym but I've shut down a bit since the announcement and have just been happily pottering about the house. He just came out yet again with 'maybe you should come for a run with me tonight' even though I've explained 6,000 times that I don't enjoy running and would probably barely get to the end of the road, let alone several km away. He then tried to hushed voice 'I'm just worried about you' I might try and report him for inessential activity

We also sorted out very early on the discrepancy I'd noted that, when I quietly came to see what he was doing while I was on a break from work, I was immediately told in a very huffy way that I'm 'interrupting him, he is very busy', whereas when he barges into my workroom by practically breaking down the door and I eventually, gently ask him to come back later after listening to his bellowing and prattling for 10 mins that I was being very grumpy and unfriendly and he was only trying to have a chat I just used his exact tone of voice back to him and he soon saw my point

ElaineMarieBenes

I’m really enjoying our time together. He plays Johnny to my Fanny most days

What on EARTH does this mean?!

@Zola1223

I’m wondering the same thing!

Endless cups of tea
Leaving stuff everywhere
Constantly hungry And making food in the kitchen after I've just cleaned it all.

I wonder how many women will look at their nearest and dearest this lockdown and ask themselves "what is he for?' [apart from the obvious]
I imagine most will continue to support the lazy and selfish, but I sincerely hope our daughters will have higher standards and demand more.

Fanny Craddock and her husband Johnny, one of the first cooking programmes on your TV, for you youngsters!

Breathing

Rearrange the dishes in dishwasher and makes a point explaining how I put them wrong in and how much space we would save if I stacked the dishwasher right. Other than that he is awesome, always makes me laugh goofing around and cuddling my legs on the sofa because he doesen' t want to be alone on his side ( we have a huge corner sofa) I keep telling him off and to use his side of sofa but in secret i love it! Pinching my arse and giving me random cuddles. We really like eachother and enjoy so much the company. Been together 15 years married 2.

I’m showing my age - I guess you’ve never heard of Fanny Craddock and her long suffering husband Johnny?

I'm lucky mine is a gem and we've both been ill the last four years so lockdown is business as usual for us.

If I was with my ex on the other hand, he would be dead by now! Piano wire? Ground glass? I would have come up with something!

I pity the poor mare that's shacked up with him now. She will need a medal the size of a man hole cover to compensate for his particular brand of fuckwittery!

ElaineMarieBenes

I was born a long time after Fanny Cradocks prime and I know exactly what you mean

@LargeGinOnTap - thank you! It’s nice to keep your pecker up at this time of global crisis - even in the kitchen

I pity the poor mare that's shacked up with him now. She will need a medal the size of a man hole cover to compensate for his particular brand of fuckwittery!

This made me laugh.

Mine isn’t bothering me much as I moved out last year. Added benefit: our various adult children have all returned to the nest, but we’re not all stuck in one house with not enough space.

My husband has been sleeping in my daughter's room since lock down began. So my daughter has been in with me. I thought it was some kind of weird night time isolation thing he had going on but he let our son stay with him last night. We haven't argued though so that's good. Think we are both being careful not to snap at eachother.

LargeGinOnTap ElaineMarieBenes

'I hope all your Yorkshire Puddings turn out like Fanny's' is one of our favourite sayings.

by sitting on his phone and ignore our dd and maki h me repeat myself everytime I speak to him because YouTube is obviously more important than us. Also deciding that while I get up with dd in the mornings he deserves a lie in til 10am every day, even though neither of us have been working for 14 days due to self isolating