What is your biggest pet peeve about your spouse/so?

[Shugardrawers]

This is inspired by the WHY did I marry my Dh thread. Sometimes I wonder what the heck I was thinking when I married him but most of the time I am so glad I did BUT...

He will sometimes argue just for the sake of arguing. He takes the other side, even if he agrees with me, just to debate. He calls it playing devil's advocate. Drives me NUTS!

He also likes to "tease" me by doing things he knows I hate. I can ask a millions times for him to not do something and he'll do it because he knows it pushes my buttons.

That being said, he really is a sweet and wonderful man and I'm very lucky to have him. What are your peeves about your spouse/so?

 

[Louise-Montreal]

He is so incredibly slow- it drives me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But other than that I will keep him

 

[mark&sue]

That he is not the man he seemed to be before we married!



Susan

 

[Lisa L from MI]

It would probably be how he will never finish a project....and start new ones when the others aren't finished. If anything breaks in the house or needs to be fixed...its the big joke....we always say...it'll take 6 months to a year!

 

[Poohnatic]

My DH has NO sense of direction. He gets lost pretty easily in a new area. Meanwhile, I'm a walking Onstar. I can give explicit directions with landmarks, if I've been to a place once.

My peeve is that he doesn't know how to get somewhere, and I give him directions. He gets mad that I tell him where we need to go. Then I end up not giving him directions, but he gets mad that I didn't give them. I can't win.

It really cheeses him to hear me give directions to anyplace to anyone, because he can't do it.

Suzanne

 

[Chris2597]

It would probably be that he second guesses everything...even after we make a decision, act on it....he is always wondering if we should have done it a different way for a better outcome....

 

[Shugardrawers]

Ooooh and another one! When we go out to dinner or a movie or anything like that he'll NEVER tell me where he wants to go. He always wants me to decide. If I have somewhere specific that's one thing but if I don't really know for sure which restaurant I want to go to he refuses to be the one to choose it. He says it's because he wants to please me and keep me happy, because when I'm not happy NOBODY'S happy. I have no problem with saying where I want to go but sometimes I just don't know and want a suggestion. He won't do it.

 

[susan1]

He is so incredibly slow- it drives me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But other than that I will keep him

hi
yeah i'll go with that and add no sense of organisation

 

[gr8ful4Him]

This may sound stupid but, it drives me nuts that he'll stay up till whatever hour at night watching the stupid TV and then sleeps in until whatever time (usually when somebody wakes him up!). I suppose it bugs me so much because I'm a morning person.
I'll definitely keep him though, he's a great guy

 

[ntburns22]

When everytime he puts something together he breaks atleast one part. He will say "I tightened it too much." Recently it has been a piece on the powerwheel he was putting together.

 

[Marseeya]

He lies.

Early in our marriage, he lied about everything including his age. It has taken 11 years to get him to quit lying to me, but he still lies to other people and it drives me nuts because I really value honesty.

He lies about the stupidest things too, and always to make himself or his loved ones look better. Things like saying we went somewhere nicer than we did, stayed longer, spent more money, etc. One time he lied and said I was in law school when I was only thinking about it. He used to lie about his level of education.

I try so hard to be understanding. His mom lies too, so he gets it honest, and he has the worst self esteem.

 

[Stitchfans]

This is inspired by the WHY did I marry my Dh thread. Sometimes I wonder what the heck I was thinking when I married him but most of the time I am so glad I did BUT...



He also likes to "tease" me by doing things he knows I hate. I can ask a millions times for him to not do something and he'll do it because he knows it pushes my buttons.

This is exactly what my DH does.He will tease me to the point where I end up yelling at him and then sits there with a shocked looked on his face. then when I confront him and ask him why he did it he gives me a stupid immature response like, "I'm a bad boy", or "I'm busy" Maybe he thinks its cute, but it really burns me up.

 

[debloco]

That even though he's one of the good ones, he can still be (and often is) a total schmuck.
Is that word allowed on the DIS?

 

[inaminute]

That lately, he's been extraordinarily lazy.

I'm doing everything around here. If I don't do it, it simply doesn't get done. His one and only chore was to load the dishwasher at night. He complained and said he was the only one doing the dishes, then just quit. Never said anything. Just stopped doing it. It took two days of finding the dirty dishes in the sink the next morning before I started doing the dishes at night.

I'm furious because I can't just quit doing things I don't want to do. Sad thing is, he doesn't seem to have a clue. No matter how many times I ask or tell him what I'd like him to do he simply won't. Very passive aggressive behavior and I've had about enough.

If he doesn't get his butt in gear and start doing something around here to help out, he may just find himself a very lonely old man.

I'm so angry at him right now I can't think one good reason I married him in the first place! I know there must be something good, I'm just not seeing it at the moment.

 

[SetzKitten]

Oh, that's easy. He can't keep a secret, or keep family business in the family. He's got to tell everyone EVERYTHING. The biggest gripe is that he tells everyone when he's traveling. Um, hello, I'm home alone. I don't want people to know that. Drives me crazy.

 

[cdrn1]

OH OH OH!!! I have one! EVERY month he asks me if I paid the cable bill. Every month. Doesn't care if I paid the mortgage, the car payment etc, but can't let a month go past without asking about the cable. Now I pay it late every month on purpose, just so we get one of those little reminders that we didn't pay yet. Freaks him out.

 

[crz4mm2]

When the phone rings he says "phone's ringing" and when my pager goes off he says "bleeper's going off" Drives me absolutely NUTS! And I have said 'why do you do that????? We ALL HEAR them!!!'
He says "I don't know"......

Good thing I love him!

 

[Goofball]

This is terrible, but if I could change only one thing about my DH, it would be his laugh. It is the most awful sound! Although I'm glad he's happy and laughing, the sound is like rusty nails on my eardrums! There are some other pretty minor annoyances, but none I'd change ahead of that cackle if I had the chance.

 

[Shugardrawers]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who hates her Dh's laugh!!! Hard to describe a laugh but it starts with AAAAAIIIIIEEEEEE and goes down hill from there. It's the stupidest and wierdest I've ever heard!

 

[Shelby5514]

Oh, that's easy. He can't keep a secret, or keep family business in the family. He's got to tell everyone EVERYTHING. The biggest gripe is that he tells everyone when he's traveling. Um, hello, I'm home alone. I don't want people to know that. Drives me crazy.

Yep, my DH is a BLABBER MOUTH too! He will tell anyone, anything, whether it's how much we paid for our house to how much is in our savings account. Nothing is sacred, he tells all. Oh, and he's a braggart. He's the typical spoiled rotten brat from 3rd grade that has to tell everyone that he just got a new widgit, and a new thingamabob, and a new whim wham. It drives me CRAZY!
But then again I am constantly singing, (ok, a little off key) that peeves him. Oh well.