Spousal Pet Peeves...Spout Off Here!

[joyjoy]

This thread has been eye-opening as well as very funny. I realize now that I do alot of these things (mostly the lazy/slovenly ones) that your husbands do.

My DBF is really good at cleaning and not peeing on the floor, but..... there is one tiny thing.

He SCRAPES his fork against his front teeth when he eats and it makes me cringe. It must be a family thing because no one in my family does it and it seems like everyone in his family does.

 

[DisneyMomx7]

I love DH dearly - we started dating when I was 14 and he was 15 but -

these things drive me crazy!

DH will leave his dirty clothes on the floor NEXT TO THE HAMPER

He constantly leaves the armoire doors wide open every night

If he comes home when I'm still cooking dinner he starts tasting out of the pan instead of waiting for it to be put on a plate

Turns the volume down on the tv when the kids or I are watching it. I don't want to tell you how many times I've almost bitte off his head. Just because you think it's too loud have some consideration for everyone else - we can hardly hear it at the volume you put it on.

Can NEVER find something in the frig or pantry closet. Even though the items are always in the same place!

Thank God he loves Disney so I can let his less redeeming qualities go!

 

[CruiserMom]

That reminds me, mine does pick his finger nails , drives me insane, .

If he is in the middle of repairing or fixing something he will not stop until he is finished. This would be okay if he did not tend to start things 10 minutes before dinner, or because he has to wait 5 minutes for us to be ready to go somewhere (and then we all end up waiting 30 minutes on him to finish).

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2. When he watches TV it has got to be on the loudest setting possible. I kid you not, I was outside cutting hedges one day and I could hear John Wayne. Which leads me to my next point.
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My dh will not empty the trash can!!! We have an unspoken game we play, "who will break down first and empty the trash?" It is ALWAYS me.

I can't stand it when he balances trash on top of the practically overflowing trash bucket. It usually ends with me emptying it in a huff while he says, "oh, I was going to do that."

Uh, yeah, mine does all of these!

 

[Sparx]

This particular interaction drives me to no end of insanity

Me: Honey, Where would you like to go for dinner

She: Oh...I don't care.

Me: Ok, Let's go get BBQ.

She: No, I don't feel like BBQ

Me: Ok, Let's go get chinese

She: I Don't really want that...

Me (Now annoyed): How about Hamburgers?

She: Nope, That upsets my stomach (While blinking at me like a cat)

This Continues until I finally Guess the place she wants to go!

So as we are heading off to the mexican place...I think to myself "SHE KNEW WHERE SHE WANTED TO GO RIGHT OFF THE BAT!!!!"

(of couse I don;t say this because that would get me a first class glare of Doom)

I had to read this post to my boyfriend. I am SO guilty of this!

 

[starrzone]

He also shaves his head and the hair ends up all over the sink and he doesn't clean it up. Grosses me out! I refuse to clean it up so eventually he does clean it up, but really!

This!!! AAAAGGGHHHH!!! Except mine doesn't always clean it up...

 

[clh2]

First - just like many of you...I love my spouse more than anything

Now - I can take the John Deere tractor and mow the grass, plow the snow; I can do minor plumbing and medium electrical projects. I can also paint. I trim bushes and trees. I take out the garbage, the recycling. I will bring the garbage cans back into the house on garbage day.

DH's major complaint of me is: I DO NOT CHANGE LIGHT BULBS. Hardly ever. (OK - in the 16.5 years we've been in the house, I've changed 2 lightbulbs that I can specifically recall.) Trust me - I can install ceiling fans, rewire things, add recepticles, I simply "pretend" that a burnt out lightbulb simply doesn't exist.

Now - my biggest complaint about DH...He "instituted" a new rule in the house several years ago that "if you open the dishwasher after it has been run...YOU MUST UNLOAD IT...This is the most stupid rule ever, and I am guilty of NOT doing it. Sorry - I handle far more "family" matters, so - if I open the dishwasher ON ACCIDENT 2 seconds before I NEED to leave to work...GUESS WHAT...the dishwasher unloading must wait. (Now...if DH wants to drop DD off at school before he goes to work, I could take a couple of minutes to unload it.)

 

[Happy Mom2]

Hubby doesn't do alot to drive me nuts, but I leave the tooth paste cap off sometimes and it drives him WILD. Now I just do it for fun sometimes to see him turn red if it is a dull day ; ).

I do the same thing!!!

 

[lilmissdisney216]

What really drives me up a wall is that darling fiance Ben has a seriously bad habit of whenever I clean out our car he comes right on through again and makes it look like we have a zoo throughout our car!!! It drives me nuts!!! I work super hard to make it look nice and then here comes hurricane ben!!!

 

[Jingle]

Despite repeated attempts, I've been unsuccessful at teaching my SO/Partner/That Guy how to replace toilet paper rolls, garbage bags and close cabinet doors.

While he has had difficulty mastering these difficult things, he has become the all time King of constructing a garbage tower on top of the garbage can!

 

[wdwmom0f3]

I don't have to many however there is one BIG one that drives me crazy and gets on the kids nerves just as much. We joke that if DH is going to go somewhere it's going to be the hard way. For example, just today, we needed to go to the grocery store. Well, there is a very nice one three miles from us, but he chose to go to the one 20 miles from us. Why, I have NO idea because it was the same darn store.

When he gets gas for the car, he will go in to pay instead of paying at the pump. He will drive a few miles out of the way to get home, when there is a much faster way. Getting fast food to take home, we have to go in & not use the drive thru. Normally it's not that big of a deal, but sometimes it gets on our nerves so bad!

 

[NMAmy]

Getting fast food to take home, we have to go in & not use the drive thru.

I do this and it drives my dd crazy (but dh doesn't mind.) 95% of the time in my area, the wait is shorter inside the restaurant than in the drive through. It also just annoys me to sit in my car--if I'm going to wait for something, I'd rather be walking/standing.

 

[Dax]

I spent most of yesterday cleaning the kitchen, floors counters, everthing. I threw away a BUNCH of crap. I set up a nice area for all our incoming mail, bills and receipts( we saving them due to watching the budget). It looked FANTASTIC.

DH was home not 5min....Crap all over the counters, his clothes strewn all over the floor, and crumbs on the floor...

I was a bit , but I told him "Did you not notice I cleaned?" Oh yeah..looks good, and into the living room he went...

At least he cleaned up after himself when he made dinner..LOL

He does this ALL the time

 

[Luvchefmic]

Ok the # 1 Complaint I have is the "cracking" I have spent 27 yrs saying "Please just say "I'm going to crack"...and if that's too much just say
"Cracking" (this way I can "block it out" for me I can if I get a warning) not just his knuckles but he will take his hand put it under his chin and the other on the top of his head & "crack" his neck I TOLD him he is not a chiropractor and if he paralyzes himself he will go to the nearest state home.....snap, crackle, pop

next is his "opinion" of himself...the man is a "jack of all trades and master of none" around the house. Don't get me wrong he is a truck driver and when I see that 18 wheeler53' trailor I am in awe that anyone can do that and tell him that all the time.

BUT I also have to say "You are NOT an electrician, a carpenter, a plumber, a mechanic, and on and on...." He "thinks" he can and should attempt anything...I finally convince him that since we are now homeowners if he takes on any of these things & something goes wrong (oh I don't know possibly a house fire do to his electrical work ) that our homeowners insurance won't cover it..this is why there are licensed professionals in the world......I think he "gets it" then he'll come home after a month or 2 and then the "lessons" have to begin all over again. You're 50 yrs old...you are a truck driver...no more no less accept your lot in life!" simple you'd think ?

Then there's the dryer...or rather the lint from it. Finally doing his own laundry (the only thing I truly ask since its gross) I have reminded him how important it is to clean the lint filter. Is it that hard to take the lint & put it in the trash (there's a can in the laundry room) ? The lint is found like a trail to show where he has been. I have found balls of lint on top of the dryer, the
railing on the deck fence, even on top of the refrigerator....NUTS !


Finally after 24 yrs of wedded bliss he has his own bathroom...anyone remember the original "Odd Couple" the sounds that Felix makes ? That's the symphony in there especially in the shower. The whole clearing of the nose/throat.... I really don't care but the minute that truck pulls out & he's going on the road again I practically don a Haz-Mat suit & sterilize the whole place !

Otherwise he's a good guy and I'm sure he'd have a boat load of things he could say about me

 

[DebIreland]

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[NCRedding]

AARGH! Two more from this morning.

Trash pick-up is once per week on Monday. Because they only pick up once, it is very important to me that the can be put to the street because I have to park by the trash can, and nothing says "hello" worse than the stench of two week old garbage. DH has a tendency to forget that trash pick up occurs on holidays, but he is likely to be sleeping in on those days. He forgot Memorial Day, so after I cleaned out the fridge yesterday, I told him (not nagging, not scolding) "We do have trash pick-up tomorrow so please be sure the can gets to the street." This morning, I'm up, DH is sleeping in. I hear the sound of the garbage truck turning onto our street. No can at the street, so I have to run it there in my robe and slippers, again. Why doesn't he ever learn to put it out on Sunday night. He has only 3 chores in our home: garbage, unload dishwasher and laundry. So why am I the crazy lady in the housecoat, running a 100 gallon trash can to the street on Monday morning?? Oh, and then he yelled at me "I said I was going to put the can out; why did you?" Umm, it does no good to put the can out if the trash has already been picked up.

Second: The floor is not one large trash can. He reads the paper; he throws it done on the floor. He finishes his meal; he puts the plate down for the cat to lick (which is another habit I hate), and leaves everything there for days if I didn't pick it up. So not only to I have to clean up after him, I have to do it stooping over and picking up from the floor. I hate this.

Whew, I feel a little better now! Thanks for letting me vent.

 

[Dax]

AARGH! Two more from this morning.

Trash pick-up is once per week on Monday. Because they only pick up once, it is very important to me that the can be put to the street because I have to park by the trash can, and nothing says "hello" worse than the stench of two week old garbage. DH has a tendency to forget that trash pick up occurs on holidays, but he is likely to be sleeping in on those days. He forgot Memorial Day, so after I cleaned out the fridge yesterday, I told him (not nagging, not scolding) "We do have trash pick-up tomorrow so please be sure the can gets to the street." This morning, I'm up, DH is sleeping in. I hear the sound of the garbage truck turning onto our street. No can at the street, so I have to run it there in my robe and slippers, again. Why doesn't he ever learn to put it out on Sunday night. He has only 3 chores in our home: garbage, unload dishwasher and laundry. So why am I the crazy lady in the housecoat, running a 100 gallon trash can to the street on Monday morning?? Oh, and then he yelled at me "I said I was going to put the can out; why did you?" Umm, it does no good to put the can out if the trash has already been picked up.

Second: The floor is not one large trash can. He reads the paper; he throws it done on the floor. He finishes his meal; he puts the plate down for the cat to lick (which is another habit I hate), and leaves everything there for days if I didn't pick it up. So not only to I have to clean up after him, I have to do it stooping over and picking up from the floor. I hate this.

Whew, I feel a little better now! Thanks for letting me vent.

LOL, my DH ALWAYS forgets about the trash can needing to go out..LOL..

He also is a big fan of piling the Sunday paper on the floor next to his computer desk, then letting the cats and dogs spread it across the floor...his reason...he was leaving the paper there for me to read...LOL

 

[rie'smom]

I get mad and get over it.
My husband, on the other hand, holds onto things that he can bring up during later arguments or he sits and mopes and I have to ask him if anything is wrong in order to talk about it. He also doesn't take the time to think before speaking and this has led to unnecesary arguments. We've been married almost 30 years so I mostly take it in stride but sometimes, it makes me crazy.

 

[Dax]

OK, DH has been letting this happen WAY to much..

Some nights, I go into bed alone due to his schedule. He normally brings the dogs out for a last round, then they come into bed with us.

He himself trues to stay quiet, but the dogs, he just ignores...and last night, he let one of the dogs KISS my face...I was in a dead sleep..not how I wanted to be woken up...Maybe some revenge is in order...

 

[Teacher03]

I just found this thread, and it's just what I needed today!

As others, I love the hubby and could list a million reasons why, but he is driving me crazy. My number 1 pet peeve...he never finishes anything he starts! He always has good intentions, but for whatever reasons, he just doesn't finish any project. It drives me totally bananas!

Whew, I feel a little better! Thanks for letting me get it off my chest.

 

[focusondisney]

Good to see this thread still going; I read the first posts & cried laughing! Never had a chance to post, but here's what drives me crazy about my dear, dear hubby: his driving ! He's either "sightseeing" while we're on our way somwhere or he manages to get behind the slowest driver on the highway & he stays there. I'm talking about a 3 lane highway where he could easily change lanes & pass. Nope, instead he stays right there behind the driver, usually going 5-10 miles under the speed limit! Drives me nuts!!!