I met my husband when we were both 16; he was nice, funny and normal. However, as the years have gone on (13 years), he's developed some traits that I simply can't stand, so much so that I hate being around him. The worst trait that he's developed is being a know-it-all and I'm just about ready to leave him because of it.
A few examples that spring to mind:
Once, when watching something about sports, the commentator started interviewing Paula Radcliffe (you could only hear their voices while footage of the race played). Neither of us knew she was being interviewed until her name clearly flashed up on the screen. While it looked like I wasn't paying attention as I was on my phone, I noticed DH waited until about 15 seconds after the names had disappeared to say "oh I know this voice.. it's Paula Radcliffe isn't it?". He definitely would never have recognised her voice.
He does that for EVERYTHING on tv. The commentator will give his opinion on how a footballer is playing during a game and DH will repeat it minutes later as if he's an expert. Or you'll hear a presenter say a location on a travel programme and then, minutes later, he'll say "oh that's Greece/Spain etc. Same for an animal/a drink/food/cars etc. It's endless. We will literally sit there listening and he'll repeat what he hears as if it was his brain that just thought of it. I'm sick of him doing this so I just say "yeah that's what it just said".
We watched Ninja Warrior on Saturday and, while Chris Kamara was speaking (we could only hear his voice), he got excited and was like "oh that's Kammy! Chris Kamara!". Understandable if it was his first time watching but we watch it regularly so he knows he's one of the presenters. I responded by saying "you've watched this before I thought you knew that?"
He does it while we watch movies too. Well known actors will come on screen and he'll be like "oh that's Brad Pitt/Natalie Portman/Seth Rogan etc". I just feel like screaming "I KNOW! EVERYONE KNOWS!"
Of course he always thinks he's right and is always saying things as if they're facts too. We watched a Rowan Atkinson film over the weekend and DH saw a car that he (obviously) named and said how much it was worth. I remarked that Rowan was a car man so maybe it was one from his own collection. DH immediately shut me down and insisted Rowan doesn't like those sorts of cars and only likes Aston Martins. Well, I did a little digging and Rowan does indeed own the same make of car that was featured on the film. Very petty of me to check but I'm so fed up of being told I'm wrong.
Once, when I was cooking dinner, I asked him to come and help me by chopping up a few things. He walked into the kitchen, looked at the pasta and said it was done. I said ok and asked him to quickly chop something up. He proceeds to ignore me, fart arse around looking for a fork while repeating that he thinks the pasta is done, tastes it and then proclaims the pasta is done in a mighty voice and only then does he look at me to ask me what I want him to do. He just loves being right and he'll go on and on and on until he's proved that he's right.
Another time, our computer was going slow when I was trying to send some files to a friend. My friend's husband (who used to work in IT) suggested I reboot the router. We've never rebooted the router so I told DH that I would be doing it and he went off on one. Apparently I was wrong, friend's IT husband was wrong, I would break the router, the internet would stop working etc. I unplugged it and plugged it back in when he went out and of course it was fine. DH will do that with all professions though. He'll think he knows more than everyone else's expert knowledge.
Because DH always thinks he's right, he also wants everything done his way. If I don't agree to his way he won't do it. If he says "let's lay tiles like this" and I say "hm, I don't know, I was thinking like this", he will immediately say "you can do it yourself then. Don't expect me to fix it when it goes wrong". The last time I did this, I said "as usual, it's your way or the high way isn't it" and he actually said "yeah it is" as he stormed out. By the way, nothing has ever gone wrong when I've had to do things myself so I don't know why he expects it to.
He hates when I'm right about anything. If we argue or debate something which he realises I'm right about, he'll slowly change his point to be my point but worded differently. When I point it out he says it's what he's been saying the whole time. We don't argue often but this one upsets me so much that I've considered recording our arguments so he can't do it.
I can't stand this behaviour anymore. It's so petty and needless of him to think he has to be right all the time and know everything. He's either stating the obvious and repeating what he's heard waiting for me to say "yeah that's right" or just making stuff up. I can probably count the number of times he's ever said "I don't know" on one hand and, when he does say it, it's in a strange voice and he dramatically throws his arms in the air. I honestly don't know how to handle this anymore and I can't bear the thought of living with it for the rest of my life.