Really stupid things you and your DP/DH have had massive rows about....

[PuppyMonkey]

Me and DP had a corker last night - he thumped the wall and strode off to bed early in a huff. The works. Because...... wait for it.....

We were watching that Red Riding thing on TV and I was trying to explain the plot. And he wasn't understanding and I was getting very impatient telling him the same thing over and over. It got REALLY HEATED.

Honestly, I nearly felt like divorcing him except we've never actually got married.

We kissed and made up this morning though.

Maybe to my being sexist, maybe to you not doing the jobs in the first place or maybe to both?

Oh, I'm sorry ABetaDad - I hope I didn't offend you

Its OK. I'm over it now. Us blokes just don't have the stamina to sulk for as long as women.

P.S I do quite often lose entire shopping lists which does quiet justifiably make my wife go nuts as I then try and blag it by remembering most of it and pretending that some of the stuff was not available if I have forgotten something.

Forgetting stuff - is definitely a male thing. My wife forgets anything.

Yes, the "they must have run out" excuse is used by DH also. Apparently, our Asda, one of the biggest in the UK, had run out of apples - none to be had in the entire store

We had a discussion today about who would get the car if we divorced.

I can't even drive

Anchovies. I was making a casserole and the recipe said you need to add 2 anchovies for extra depth of flavour (the saltiness and all). He hates anchovies, and insisted I didn't put them in. I did anyway without telling him, he said it was yum, then said I'd "betrayed his trust" by putting them in.

ScorpiowithabigS - I am assuming this was a hypothetical discussion?

oh yes, for sure. Very happily married, we just have this discussion occasionally and i forgot about it until today! Had to post

Oh good.

directions in a car seem to be the tipping point for DP and I. He insists I can't map read but I can and I get really cross with him. The worst time was when he picked me up from somewhere, threw me a map and said 'where do i turn at the junction?'!? I had only just strapped myself in, let alone had time to find the right page.

we also have rows about things like who does most around the house...

other than that we get on pretty well!

and he once printed out really really crap route instructions from some website (just words, no map) - he was driving and they were literally impossible to follow. That was my fault too . I forced him to stop at a petrol station and made him buy a proper map

Glad it's not just us two that are so crap after all!

I cannot believe so many of you give your partners LISTS

If my dh gave me a list, or vice versa, aforesaid list would end up inserted in someone's bottom

Whta on earth is wrong with a shopping list??? Meal plan and write the list - that way you don't forget anything.

A shopping list is different. I'm talking about the list of jobs!

Bristol.

please Hunker tell me why you rowed about Bristol!!??

Usually we row about housework. Ocassionally we row about driving, which always ends up with me shouting that when he learns how to fucking drive, passes his test and racks up more than 15 years experience, well, THEN he can tell ME how to fucking drive .

We used to row about cleaning - every weekend. In the end we got a cleaner, it was like a revolution.

We don't row about it but my DH is crap at supermarket shopping. One night I realised that I didn't have any smoked salmon (central to what I was cooking), so bless him he offers to go and buy some. Half an hour later he comes back with two Sainsbury's carriers packed full. I look and I look - you've guessed it, no smoked salmon!!!!! But we did have plenty of cheese, beer, jalapeno chillis, crisps....

We have terrible fights about farmers

He thinks they are rich elite with barns stuffed with cash

I think it is rather less clear cut

We can hardly talk about it without drafting divorce papers

Arguing about farmers!

Now that is weird. Does either of you have a connection with farming, did a farmer once run you off the road with his tractor?

Barms stuffed full of cash is a common opinion - never seen it all the 45 years of my experience of the industry. Stuffed full of debt usually.

Sideplates. I find them useful for baconrinds etc, gristle, bits of food children spit out. He removes them when I have laid table with them.
Arguing about whether bread in the freezer counts as bread in the house.
Leaving his used socks in his shoes overnight, "in case I can't find any socks tomorrow" (?)

Refusing to ask people directions in case it looks bad. Getting lost as a result.

SerendipitousHarlot a list is a peace saving device in our relationship.

Without list: I want dh to do things, he forgets, I remind him, he feels nagged, the thing doesn't get done, everyone is unhappy.

With list: Dh does things on his list in his own time, he doesn't feel nagged, the jobs get done, everyone is happy.