[Closed] No matter how much you love them, what partner's habit makes you scream inside?

Gonzy - I always thought my wife was having an affair. I'm pleased it is with another cyclist.

You can have her Monday to Sunday. I'll have her on the other days.

Quirrel - Member

Gonzy - I always thought my wife was having an affair. I'm pleased it is with another cyclist.

You can have her Monday to Sunday. I'll have her on the other days.

Wow, so many things I can relate to.

Here's another for you - she has a unique ability to phone my mobile when I'm under a car, up a ladder, unblocking a drain, or covered in grot - not really her fault, but when I immediately call her mobile back within a few seconds of her call having climbed out/down/wiped hands etc, I get no answer. It's like she's put her phone down and sprinted away from it out of ear shot. So annoying.

Gonzy - I always thought my wife was having an affair. I'm pleased it is with another cyclist.

You can have her Monday to Sunday. I'll have her on the other days.

i think everyone else here is also having an affair with your wife!! 😆

Here's another for you - she has a unique ability to phone my mobile when I'm under a car, up a ladder, unblocking a drain, or covered in grot - not really her fault, but when I immediately call her mobile back within a few seconds of her call having climbed out/down/wiped hands etc, I get no answer. It's like she's put her phone down and sprinted away from it out of ear shot. So annoying.

this as well....usually she phones me when i'm driving and insists that i talk to her...but when she phones her friends/sisters and theyre also driving, she'll say "oh its ok i'll call you back...its dangerous to be on the phone when you're driving"
or she'll whatsapp me when im driving

The sheer lack of a rational response to most situations, and being deeply offended by the completely non offensive situations then mentioning it for the next 30 years - not sure what the value proposition is in this "relationship"

[quote=uphillcursing ]Exhaling is fine.

Have you not heard of global warming?

A few....

Moaning that a small pile of my magazines at the side of the sofa is my contribution to the general shit-hole mess of a house that she and my son leave behind them. I dont have mess in the house, thats why I have sheds.
Telling me a story that takes forever to tell because of the mindless crap scene setting that she does before actually getting to the point.
Moaning that I started painting the dining room last night, despite repeatedly moaning for the last month that I havent started it yet.

bigyinn - Member
A few....
Moaning that a small pile of my magazines at the side of the sofa is my contribution to the general shit-hole mess of a house that she and my son leave behind them. I dont have mess in the house, thats why I have sheds.

Oh god yes, asymetric mess perception. The kitchen a mess and it's all my fault because my lights are charging by the back door with my small box of biking essentials, conveniently ignoring the forests worth of her pointless magazines and stuff she's got out with hoppy jr and not put away. But what's worse is you still get the same view when it's been put away.

Keeping butter and condiments in the fridge.

I live alone....and reading some od these reminds mw why that is sooo nice.

but...previous g/f, when exiting house would lock deadbolt with key....and then try the door...just to make sure that she'd locked it. and if I locked the door, she would try it still...just in case I'd turned the key properly...Mad.

we're only friendly terms and she came to mine a few weeks back...did them same at my house!

bigyinn appears to be living with my Mrs 🙂

Keeping butter and condiments in the fridge.

Oh sweet baby Jesus, i'd forgotten about that one.

and not completely tearing the foil off the top of a new bottle of milk, this is made worse by the fact shes left handed so opens it from the 'other' side. If i don't notice and go to pour it sends milk bloody everywhere

Inappropriate dishwasher stacking.

Putting dirty dishes etc next to the sink for the washing up fairy.

If the dishes do go in the sink they go in with what food scraps remained.

Starting a job just as we are about to leave for somewhere.

finding plenty of spare time to look at holidays/facebook etc but never time to look at alternative insurance quotes for her car etc.

Tidying involves putting things in piles and leaving it there.

Cooking involves every dish/pot/pan/knife/fork/spoon etc

Making arrangements then asking me if it is okay.

If i was of a suspicious nature I may conclude she does the above knowing it irritates me so I do it instead.

Thank you all for validating my teabag on worktop peeve, very cathartic!

Responding to the suggestion that this might be down to inherited frugal time traits, I'm disputing this. I'm sure there's lots of things that were done in those times that are not carried through, we shower every day don't we? Buy new socks when there's a hole in them rather than darning them?

In short there is no excuse, PUT THE TEABAG IN THE BL**DY BIN!!!

🙂 🙂 🙂

Tbh, a teabag on worktop sounds quite accommodating for a wife.

Cooking/reality/talent shows are a good one...

Getting grumpy with me because I'm watching something on Netflix rather than watching "Britain's Got Baking Factor Get Me Out of Here with Bear Grylls" with her, grinds my gears.

In addition to all the previous...

My wife has to discuss everything no matter how trivial, even if I've heard it 4 times before as she's been on the phone to her mates earlier talking about the same thing. She will not make a decision unless discussed and even if discussed to her satisfaction will do exactly what she wants anyway... JUST GET ON WITH IT WILL YOU!!!

Farting.

When she does it...it's funny.
When I do it...I'm a disgusting animal.

Admittedly ...I fart more.

"Asymmetric mess perception" - the husband has this too. Doubly annoying when he "tidies" (ie hides) my stuff because the house is a mess, but leaves all his own stuff out. I once gathered it all up and put it in a gigantic pile near the stairs for him. He stepped over it...

Now I'm wondering if my husband is everyone's wife?!

Oh, thought of another one: spending over an hour sitting on the toilet when I'd like to get in to shower after commuting home (or when we're just about to go out, or when I've asked him to tidy stuff...). WHAT ON EARTH DO MEN DO IN THERE?! Surely it's not that comfortable?

Leaving a peanut butter covered knife glued to the worktop.

Tbh, a teabag on worktop sounds quite accommodating for a wife.

Subtle 8)

Most of the above. Don't remember noticing until I retired though, and it's getting critical now she's retired too. The thing is, she lives in a happy go lucky couldn't give a f×#k fluffy bubble and I get all stressed, so on balance I have a dreadful suspicion that it's me that's at fault. A few weeks ago in the supermarket a shop assistant and a customer were cooing over a sweet old couple shuffling round together, head to head. When I walked past them though they were being absolutely vile to each other. Don't wanna end up like that!

Farting.

When she does it...it's funny.
When I do it...I'm a disgusting animal.

TBH I find it hard to disagree with that.

WHAT ON EARTH DO MEN DO IN THERE?

Get away from our partners mostly, it's the only peace we get.

Either that or he's having a J Arthur, but that should only account for a couple of minutes.

My missus visits a homeopathic "medicine" provider!
Every time I go for a good ride I get home to find the washing machine needs emptied . Every bloody time.
She also does the toilet roll facing the wrong way round thing.
Aaaaagggghh.

Generally doing that thing where making a mess now, as its too hard to stay tidy, and then tidy up later, is somehow less of a faff than not making a mess in the first place?

I constantly seem to keep finding apple cores in places where the apple was eaten, and the core left as a kind of 'I ate an apple while sat here' tag?

Thinking that me wanting to go out for a few hours to ride my bike is somehow selfish, even though I would have spent my time on leave, pretty much, devoted to doing things for the rest of the family, whether I was having a tolerable time or not.

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My wife has had her dishwasher privileges revoked. Those of you grumbling about your partner's obsession with dishwasher stacking: you are idiots, get the **** away from the dishwasher.

I always wash up and clean the kitchen, irrespective of who's cooked. My wife is allergic to tidying up her own mess. I made friends with her housemates at university by actually doing her washing up for her. Apparently she'd once been pleased to find that her dirty crocks had been cleared up, and didn't notice for several days that they'd just dumped them in the garage, sick of the sight of the things that were growing on there.

She does, to be fair, have some inkling that things need to be cleaned. Unfortunately this manifests itself in her stuffing every last bit of dirty cookware straight into the sink, whilst running the taps or pouring stuff away, so when it comes round to time for me to clear up I have to first excavate the day's damp coffee grounds, teabags, peelings, bits of catfood, and general ming off a tottering stack of five pans, fifteen different sized plates, some mugs, three colanders, and a tagine full of yoghurt for some reason. Always enjoyable.

Oh oh and another thing: she puts pasta/rice/spuds on to boil, on full heat, with the lid on, then ****s off to bimble on facebook or something in another room, so that the pot boils over and covers the cooker in starchy clag, possibly putting out the burner in the process, and then goes "OOOOH WHOOPS" like it's never happened before ever, and isn't in fact an absolute 100% cast-iron dead-cert outcome of her having started cooking some food. I swear if she was making a sandwich she'd still manage to over boil a pot somehow. And then not clean it up ever never ever, so muggins here has to scrub the hob every sodding night.

And that's just in the kitchen! Jesus Christ...

stocking up with enough food to last months. cupboards, fridge and freezer are always crammed that full ive no idea whats in there. last time i tried to look i couldnt open the drawer, tried rucking it open and cracked the drawer. i dont bother now. i just insist on having one drawer for me which i keep manageable, dont give a toss whats in the rest of it. same with the fridge, just give me one shelf and do what you like with the other sh1t.
if something gets used and leaves a gap, itll be replaced next shop day.

id like just enough food for what we'll want in the next week maybe, with fridge freezer and cupboards only half full so i can see whats there.

vaping. she gave up smoking years ago, nice one. she has a sneaky fag when shes out for a drink, no big deal. since vapings come along tho, she thinks it looks cool so has started that 'so i dont have a fag when im out'. yet she doesnt just vape when she would have had a fag, she's on the verge of a habit now. really p1sses me off watching her puffing away when i know shes stopped smoking and doesnt need it. she started in the house the other day, so did my lad, so i had to tell em its not happening in the house, dont want to watch em and live in a cloud of smoke/vapour.

leaves bedroom drawers open all the time.

When the missus puts the washing on the rotary dryer she always puts the heavy stuff, jeans and towels on one bit, then t shirts and underwear etc on the other, making the dryer lean on one side, trying to explain it would be better to even things out a bit just results in her saying if you think you can do better why don't you just do it every time...

It'll be me fixing the damn thing when its bost, but that's lost on her..
Also when she knows I'm out riding my bike I'll tell her to text if she wants to know something and I'll stop and answer the text at a convenient time and only ring if its important.. Phone rings so I think its important only to be greeted with daft questions like do you want your boiled spuds leaving whole or mashed ffs

not allowing me to go on a tour bus or guided tour in all my italian holidays 👿 😕 her and my kid gang up on me that I dont need it.. me thinks wtf am I here for looking at old rocks and buldings I have no clue about with teary eye while they are busy taking photos/selfies of buildings/rocks/architecture that they also have no idea about 😡 😡 😡

Cutting bread. She is incapable* of cutting it in a vertical line, her cut always slopes from right to left top to bottom. I know why she cuts it like this (because she insists on cutting in a line straight in front of her which twists her arm, rather than in line with her arm like anybody sensible - I noticed our 9yo cuts in the correct way so it's not just me) but despite having pointed out the simple way to cut straight continues to do it wrong. I even bought a bread knife with a bent handle many years ago which should make it obvious whether you're cutting straight in the hope that would help, but she still cuts crooked with that. Which leads me to think that:
*I've come to think she actually does it deliberately because I once told her she was doing it wrong

Mrs busydog has never met a light switch she doesn't want in the "on" position. I leave to walk the dogs in the morning before she gets up and when I come back, lights are on in the bedroom, bathroom, closet, kitchen, living room, garage and laundry room---and it's broad daylight with lots of large windows.

She also covers every flat surface in the house with pictures, knick-knacks, vases, bowls.

Highly adverse to ever getting rid of anything. We have enough glassware to open a bar. My approach is if we haven't used something in the past year, it's time for it to go, which generally meets with stiff resistance.

In her behalf, she does put up with me, so suppose that maybe makes us even.

God. I'm divorced and two partners on. But some of this stuff...

If you can't stand it, sort it... Otherwise treasure your differences. Please.

Leaving washing up "to soak" for way too long, E.g overnight. Not all of the items, just the main pan/dish/tray used in preparation

Cutting bread. She is incapable* of cutting it in a vertical line, her cut always slopes from right to left top to bottom.

Is she left-handed by any chance?

If you put a hot teabag in the bin, it makes the inside of the bin sweat and you get a pool of condensation in the bottom of the bin. Leave it to cool, pop in bin, bin stays dry, no need to clean the liner as often. Get a tea bag caddy (or a plate to pop it on.)
I've been re-educated...... 😉 she was right!

This is most enjoyable.

FTR, she puts up with me WAY more....but what really annoys me is...

PHONE: When she calls me...to say 'Hi' or to tell me something important or ask my opinion etc etc why does she then HAVE to speak to someone else at the same time?! I'm sure one of our kids is about to murder a sibling but gonnie please just speak to me and no to anyone else hen...

SINK: We have a perfectly good dishwasher (more of that later) so WHY OH WHY do you have to use the sink to wash everything in it then leave it to drip dry in the other sink with ALL the spoons/cups/saucers/bowls THE WRONG WAY UP? Needless to say, 5 hours later they are really easy to dry, especially now that the water is cold and the scum isn't caked on them.

DISHWASHER: It's mine, no one is allowed near it. Just leave everything on the island and I'll put it in....thank you.

TOILET TIME: I like some R&R in there. It's a place of peace and solace, a place where I can reflect on the good fortune I enjoy with such a perfect family. Why ruin my precious time in there with a sarky comments, tut, huff, roll of the eyes? Of all the things in this life I REALLY looking forward to... It's going for a bump in peace.

BED: Teeth grinding. She now has a wee rubber mouth guard as her grinding was waking our neighbours up too.

GARAGE: It's the only place in the house I could call 'mine'. I don't [s]often[/s] leave my stuff laying around 'your nice and clean (apart from the sink) kitchen/utility room so WHY LEAVE ALL THE STUFF YOU DONT WANT LAYING AROUND ON TOP OF MY WORKTOPS IN MY GARAGE. Incidentally, yes I know they are all covered in crap but I know EXACTLY where everything is.

Some personal reflections to my fellow sufferers...

1. Buy one of those teapots which uses loose tea leaves...the range of teas is rather interesting and one never has to worry about bin fires again. You can also tell the future if you know what you're looking for...
2. Bidets are THE future...no toilet paper required. Plus, you can have lots of fun seeing how near the ceiling you can get the water jet to go without touching it.

As I say, she puts up with MANy more of my traits. She's near perfect...other than those wee bits and bobs above.

I enjoyed that, thanks

Leaves toothpaste spit in the sink

Terrible, terrible driver.

Picks her nail varnish off in bed and drops the bits on the floor

Whenever she looses something she "distinctly remembers giving it to [me]". Yesterday was the bank card which she found in her bag.

I, on the other hand, am perfect.

Not changing gear. She'll be driving along at 50mph in 2nd, happily chatting. I don't hear anything she says because inside my head I'm screaming "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ALLAH AND BUDDHA CHANGE [rude word] GEAR" Once long ago I couldn't contain myself and I mentioned it. I mean externally, so she could hear it. It was like the planet had stopped revolving; I could hear the collective intake of breath from sparrows on high branches and small dogs in the distance. We only have automatics now.

Relaxingly Single now but....

Walking away to the other end of the house while talking and expecting you to either develop super hearing or follow picking up the instructions...
Complaining that the mumbled noise from the other end of the house that contained what must have been life or death instructions were not acted upon
Describing every new group of people met as Amazing, wonderful such great lives - you met them for an hour I'm sure they all hate each other really

Doing exactly what they complained other people do that winds them up...

Many many more...

Here's another for you - she has a unique ability to phone my mobile when I'm under a car, up a ladder, unblocking a drain, or covered in grot - not really her fault, but when I immediately call her mobile back within a few seconds of her call having climbed out/down/wiped hands etc, I get no answer. It's like she's put her phone down and sprinted away from it out of ear shot. So annoying.

She bins everything and I mean everything them usually denies it calling it my absentmindedness. This week it was the turn of the 6screws for the bathroom door that I was about to re-hang. A ray of light though...she admitted it this time saying 'she wondered what they were for'.

The other is - I'm watching TV, she'll sit down for the evening and immediately turn the TV over. Saying that my 5yr old does that too..

Well this was a most interesting thread and I've now learned that Mrs Weeksy is actually pretty bloody perfect. I could possibly argue one minor point against here.. but it would be being slightly petty.. So I won't.... Other than that.... you lot seem to have terrible wives/lives.

Tbh for all her minor faults there's a reason we've been together for 2 decades 😯