Is it possible to have a cheery thread in Relationships?

[MintyyAeroEgg]

I am just pondering.

As I face up to the prospect of my 15th wedding anniversary with DH (been together 18 years), with many extremely rough patches along the way, I have to say I am mostly glad we are still together. But I do wonder why

1. he has to ALWAYS lean on something when standing up

1. he cannot put the pans and baking trays away in the pans and baking trays cupboard properly.

What fecking irritating habits funny little ways have you learned to live with over the years?

Yes it is.

But it isn't that interesting.

When my DH puts his boxer shorts on, he has to hold them up against himself to check they are on the right way round

Oh this has given me such belly laughs! I too have a DH who doesn't put things away but "near" things.

Met DH 18 years ago, love at first sight, been married for 7 this year. He is wonderful.

My niggles are:

1. Not just in the way in the kitchen; if I am upstairs and realise I need something from the cupboard with the toolbox in it, I'll get downstairs to find him leaning his bum against it as he reads the paper.

2. When the family is getting ready to go out for the day, he is always ready first (fine). Trouble is, he then loses the ability to sit down and has to stand with one hand on the front door handle, looking forlornly at us like a dog that has been promised a walk, until the rest of us have our coats & shoes on.

3. I've said this elsewhere, but earnestly asking me questions I cannot possibly know the answer to. On the way to the hospitallast week: "How many sonographers work here?" Erm...

Gawd he makes me smile

Oh . I've just read Orm's comment.

Apparently it isn't "interesting" to have a thread about relationships that are ok and just wobble along and overall are better rather than worse.

So I'll be getting me coat.

As you were, lets get back to misery and adultery and domestic violence in Relationships shall we?

It's interesting to me because I enjoy taking the p out of men generally, it's so funny how they all do similar irritating things

incapable of putting things away in the dishwasher in any semblance of order. when berate says "we were too poor to have a dishwasher when we were growing up, therefore i dont know how to stack one"

funny that because i know he had a washing machine when growing up and he doesnt seem know how to use that either...

oh and addiction to tabasco.

buti love him to bits and this thread is funny!

Gentle mine is the opposite about getting ready to go out. Drives me mad if we're taking the dog with us.
Me: are you ready to go?
DH: yes.
Me: Are you sure, cos once I get the dog's lead out she'll go bonkers. You're ready to walk out the door?
DH: yes.
Put dog on lead, she starts jumping around like a mad thing barking
DH: oh hang on I just need to go to the loo/put my contact lenses in/find my keys,wallet,brain.
grr

Wombleprincess, are you having an affair with my husband??

A Beta Dad I love that your wife restricts your access to her lists!!

Gentle/macaco - oh dear

I do the standng by the door hand on the handle thing AND then when everyone is ready I always just need to go the loo and then have to take my shoes off to go back upstars to get my keys. Then I come down and we go out and lock the door then my DW asks me if I have my mobile... erm no.. back upstairs to eventually find it in my dresssing gown pocket then back down. Then lock the door then find I forgot the directons / suitcase / wallet / etc ... back in again. This can go on for about 10 minutes and then I might need another wee as well.

I bet that is really really annoying.

OMG- my DH does the pants in bed thing too... I go to change it and there are always 3 or 4 pairs of knickers screwed up in the crevise between the mattress and the end of the bed. We don't live in the Arctic FFS.

Another one that annoys me is the lack of sink rinsing after a shave. Gross.

Oh, or the old favourite of leaving cupboard doors oven after he has taken something out or put it in (less frequent).

And not being able to WIPE a fecking work surface after clearing it. This man had a 1st class degree but can't wipe a work surface.

crevice and open not 'oven'. Oops

Been with my hubby 14 years his one habit that I can't change..is the not being able to get things IN the wash basket,on top,on the floor next to but never in.

oh good and toilet seat up. i think that is all men though...

Been married 19 years (how did that happen?) and he does loads of the things already mentioned!! However, he also:
(1) reads bits of the newspaper out loud to me after I've read it!!
(2) when we are going out only gets himself ready and doesn't think about what we need to bring for the children (like ds2's medication ).

oh good and toilet seat down. i think that is all women though...

Together for 12 years. He is wonderful, but...

Why must he wash up in the middle of the meal? We all eat, I'm just footling about with fruit and icecream and I find him up to his armpits in washing up bubbles and looking guilty. "I'm just putting them in to soak" he says. No, you are WASHING UP. Stoppit. Come and have pudding. (Err... and then do the washing up after the meal. Please. Dear.)

Good lord a lot of us are married to clones of the same man

Married almost 35 years been together 7 years on and off before we married.

Dh is incabable of working and talking at the same time, eg we are preparing veg for Sunday lunch and I ask him a question, he immediately stops what he's doing and answers me.

He asks me something I carry on with what I'm doing and answer him.

He always answers a knock at the door but has to remove his specs first.

He snores for England and then complains he didn't sleep very well, join the club mate

Dp has the inability to look for anything and thinks I know where everything is, thus questions such as, where are my car keys, wallet etc that I would have no idea of as I never touch them.

The never putting clothes in the washing basket then wondering why there not washed.

Thinks cooking dinner involves serving us all a tin of beans and sausages.

Talks incessantly about work even after my eyes have glazed over (can go on for a few hours)

Insists on finding the most boring thing on tv and watching it and wonders why I sit on my laptop a lot and dc's disappear.

Knows I hate football but insists on telling me REALLY important things I NEED to know about the latest players etc.

Lol, he's not so bad but can talk a lot of drivel!

Married 20 yrs. Really lovely in many ways but re the following:
1.if we're going out with some /all of the 4 dcs he gets himself ready and wonders impatiently why it's taking me so long to nudge along the older ones/help with the younger ones. Wouldn't think to join in the cajoling.

1. Similarly, on holiday I pack for 5 people and he packs for one (and still tries to get away with asking me to fold his shirts).
2. is very intelligent but when he disagrees with me over something - fair enough - he won't even try to see my point of view. Then some time later will come up with the same view point and adopt it so wholeheartedly as his own that he then gets mildly irked when I remind him of what I'd said on the point in the first place.

DuffyFluckling, mine will happily wash up in the middle of a dinner party. antisocial g*t.

also when he needs to make an excuse/white lie he always involves me ie.. no mother we cannot see you this weekend, dw is going tto her best friends daughters christening, which means i constantly have a list of white lies he has made to remember to back up.

reality, that flaw is completely forgiveable if he puts down the toilet seat!