What does your partner find annoying about you?

Purplesky_2

zarf2007 wrote: »

you spent £25K renovating a property and you havent got a dishwasher? to me that would be 2nd only to a TV! and it sounds like it would solve your biggest annoyance!

Ah! I wish! One of the compromises was a smaller kitchen with no easy access to a cellar or other place to put one sensibly....

I'm debating moving the washing machine into the bathroom and replacing it with a dishwasher in the kitchen at some point, but am unsure as to the viability of that idea?

I'm also looking into tabletop dishwashers, but no idea where that would go either?

The kitchen layout is such that there are two long/corner cupboards on the floor, with a small cupboard (300mm), a wine rack and the oven in between. Then there is a set of drawers and a door on one side and the washing machine and fridge/freezer on the other. It's only 2.5 m by 2.5m...

Purplesky_2

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Wow! That's a long list! Is there anything you do like about him?

My two main annoyances about my husband are: He eats sweets noisily....very noisily. Sometimes I think he's just doing it to wind me up because he knows it drives me up the wall, but no....that's just how he eats them.

Boy does he know how to use those pause and rewind buttons on the Sky remote. You're watching something and then he's like "did you see that?" and so rewinds it! Or remembers to tell me something or show me something, so pauses it! :mad:

About me he'd say that he hates my stubbornness, my hoarding tendencies (I get sentimental about stuff and like to keep it, although I am getting better with that!) and the way little piles of clutter pop up all over the house! I am generally clean and tidy, but now and again, piles of magazines (that I'm working on reading through!) pop up, a pile of stuff to "go out to the car" sits there for days whilst I "keep on forgetting to take it out"

But, he has more good points than he has bad points, and those bad points whilst annoying as hell, are basically small in the grand scheme of things.

I figured that was going to get mentioned at some point, yes, there are lots of things that are wonderful about him, and housework is really the only instance where we have a problem.

We are very similar in our approach to finance, I can cook well which he loves, we agree on decoration in the house (which can be a real bone of contention in other couples), when I ask him to do something he does it, he handles some jobs better than me, he has more get up and go sometimes (usually when I need it and vice versa), he's very romantic :smileyhea, he's constantly learning new skills and exploring new ideas and we agree on broader values and goals (and not having children):T. He makes me feel safe and he looks after me. :A

If we got a maid, I'd be tidier and the house would be nearer his expectation but he finds that idea laughable - something to do with pride? I don't really get it. It's just drudgery to me :huh:.

Also he's dyslexic, and very, very introverted but puts on such a good performance of being extroverted that it took me four and a half years of living together to figure out that was why he didn't do/like some of the things that I thought he might. But he's perfectly happy for me to go out without him, and now I don't mind. So sometimes, the onus gets put on me for some things (like when buying the house... the paperwork!:eek:), but because it's 'invisible work' I end up just taking on a bigger amount of housework rather than the chores rebalancing automatically.

scooby088

The fact that i breath would be a factor in something she dislikes about me otherwise i am the perfect partner.

Purplesky_2

krustylouise wrote: »

One thing I have noticed, which is purely me being nosey. Why do you have separate beds?

We have separate beds because we sleep very differently.

He is fussy about temperature (apparently I'm warm in bed?)
He is a very light sleeper, so moving sheets/snoring/TV/creaking staircase/washing machine/lights in the house/radiator going/breeze present etc etc can disturb him

He regularly needs between 30 mins and an hour to fall asleep, I rarely need more than 5.

I don't need as much sleep as he does (by about an hour), so if we go to bed at the same time, I end up getting up two hours before he does and waking him up, leading to him being a complete grumpy-boots because he really, really needs his sleep.

Apparently I also become Jackie Chan in my sleep? :rotfl:


In short, he has a hard time getting to sleep/staying asleep anyway, without the presence of another body(never mind one that regularly swats him/kicks him/knees him/snores/is restless :rotfl:) and he really, really needs all the sleep he can get.
The last six months at the flat I was sleeping on the couch because he'd been sleep deprived for over four years (and I once fell asleep in the car to Slipknot going full belt :rotfl:)

Feral_Moon

Purplesky wrote: »

Ah! I wish! One of the compromises was a smaller kitchen with no easy access to a cellar or other place to put one sensibly....

I'm debating moving the washing machine into the bathroom and replacing it with a dishwasher in the kitchen at some point, but am unsure as to the viability of that idea?

That's exactly what I did. Can't live without dishwasher. In fact I've just ordered a new one lol

robotrobo

Breathing!.:eek:

Purplesky_2

Feral_Moon wrote: »

That's exactly what I did. Can't live without dishwasher. In fact I've just ordered a new one lol

Really? Interesting.....
How did you work out the electrics problem?

nearlyrich

I work too much I eat too fast I chew my nails I am a bit untidy
He is a bit obsessed with everything being just so and he sulks instead of arguing

Did I say I am always right? So is he, good job we agree about most things and after 25 years together the small stuff is just that fortunately.

DKLS

My wife is annoyed at my ability to sleep.

As soon as my head hits the pillow I am out for the count whilst she takes forever to get off and then is up and down all night.

lulu_92

I eat too much chocolate and I've gained weight. He has not said this to me (in fact, he says that I'm not fat, but I know that isn't true) in fact he encourages whatever I do
I forget to put the bins out
I buy too many clothes
I stress out easily
I moan all the time.

He never puts his clothes away
He leaves the ironing board out
He locks the door when brushing his teeth so if I need to brush my teeth or get ready I have to wait a
He will watch any football, and if he decides there's nothing on he'll put Sky Sports News on.
He never remembers anything. Not like birthdays, but if we have plans with someone.