Random question.....

veijes

Does your FI/husband let you drive his car?

Does your FI drive your car?


FI drives my car all the time when I'm in it (so I can do my makeup haha) and I don't mind him driving it....but I have NEVER driven his Jeep, he won't let me. I can understand that it's only a year old so it's super nice but mine is that same year as his. Is this a guy thing? or is my FI just picky about his car?

esmurphy

FI drives mine all the time.  I can't drive his - it's a manual and I never learned how, he keeps saying he's going to teach me but I secretly think he likes me not being able to drive it...

hkiesling

DH and I swap cars all the time.  I've had guy friends thought that wouldn't let anyone else TOUCH the steering wheel.  I hate chalking things up to "guy things" but I've noticed that more in guys than girls.

LittleSweetie

Yeah we both drive each other's whenever.  I've even taken his car to work sometimes.  Good thing I know how to drive a 5-spd

kristigiles

yup he loves driving mine, but I don't like his so much

leggwilliams

His car is bigger then my little Saturn, but I have driven it....especially in the winter when my car won't start and I have to get to class! He's also driven mine, but it weirds me out when he drives it and I'm in the passanger seat! I don't like sitting on that side of my car, it's too weird

kclepire

FI and I share cars.  He always drives when we are together (his car or my car).  When he runs errunds and I don't need my car he takes it as it's newer.  He does call them 'our' cars which bothers me a little.  To me it's still his car and my car.  Even when we're 60 we will still have my car and his car to me.

Bimbi284

When I had a car, FI drove it often (especially when he didn't have on). Now I don't have one, and the one he has is a stick...which I don't know how to drive, so he does all the drivin'.

MoriaMN

FI always drives my car when we're both in it. He says he doesn't like being the passenger, regardless of who's driving. I don't care, I'd rather go along for the ride anyway.

golden1215

Well I drive a Dodge Charger R/T.... he has a Pontiac Gran Prix.... so, the whole "guy car" thing goes out the window with us since my car has the hemi engine.

But we do swap, mostly in bad weather, because the Charger is rear-wheel drive and therefore not as safe for myself and our 2 yo daughter to be in.

Tell him to get over it!!!

zephyr_marie

We've both driven each other's cars, though we don't often... mine is a manual and he's not used to it, though, so prefers not to. :P  Otherwise, neither of us mind swapping if we need to.

drdifabio

Does your FI/husband let you drive his car?
No - well not that he doesnt let me but more that I cant. He drives a manual and while I know how to drive a manual and could if I had to (and have had to a couple times home from the bar ) I am not that good at it since I drive an automatic every day.

Does your FI drive your car?
Yea all the time. I really dont like driving so if he will drive mine when we go out I am all for it.

kassie411

I drive his.. he never drives mine.  I have a stick and he don't know how to drive a stick.  I make fun of him constantly.. but it's actually so annoying having to drive all the time (mine is an SUV and we always take mine in the winter)   I'm going to trade mine in soon for an automatic SUV instead.

izzyjenni

I drive my FI's car when needed.  This is even after I totalled his first awd car in the winter when I didn't know how to shift it into all wheel drive and a bunch of teacher friends and I were going to lunch on a non-school day.  It was slippery out and we twisted and turned going 40 unto the highway across 3 lanes of traffic and crashed into the concrete median, totalling his car!  I felt awful about the car but he was way more concerned that I was ok.  This is how I knew he was the one.  He loved me and didn't care about the car so much until later when he saw it!  So it still amazes me that he lets me drive his new car that is not a big AWD vehicle.  Guess who got one that is though!  ME this year.  But it is AWD all the time.    He drives mine also with me in it or without.  We swap all the time!  
It  isn't a big deal that a guy won't let you drive his car.  It is a guy thing and most of my previous guys didn't let me.  

debbieupper

Typically, if we go somewhere, he drives his nicer, newer manual car. I have a total dumper because I hardly ever drive and I travel so much for work that I'm always in rentals. He also hates riding in my car. Says it gives him a headache? Something about the seat and headrest ... IDK.

But this weekend will be interesting. We're driving to MN (from Chicago, where we live) and FI just had surgery to remove a mole on his foot today. I don't trust that my car would make it (seriously, my car is THAT bad), and he's not supposed to drive for long periods, so ... looks like i'm driving! I'm not good at stick shifts. Took me forever to learn and I never practice. I think we'll wait til we're out of the city to switch seats.

kkaew816

We both drive his car because we're trying to sell mine (2002 Hyundai Accent if anybody's interested!!!!), but before that he would only 'let' me drive 'his' car when go on road trips. Generally when we're together he drives though.

blondie424

My FI does let me drive his Ram truck if I need it but it's not too often that I need to.  I drive 30 miles one way to work, so I never take that gas guzzler   And FI isn't a good passenger, so on the weekends he drives us around in either vehicle...which is fine with me, I'm sick of driving by the time Friday rolls around anyways!

I think it's a guy thing, my Dad always drives and it's the same with FI.  It's almost a control thing for them...you don't have any control of the car when you're a passenger if something happens and they don't like that feeling, at least that's what both my Dad and FI have said.

Clare13

I drive his car when needed.  He never drives my car.  (Its a VW Beedle and he doesn't like driving it.)  When we are together, he usually drives.  But if needed, I can drive.  It's rare for me to drive his car, but it does happen occasionally. 

My guy is one who baby's his car.  It was years before I actually got to drive it.  Now when I need to take it, it really isn't that big of a deal.  I assume over time he will loosen up on his only my car rule. 

Steph0871

Reading this made me a little jealous FI doesn't have his license and never has.  Didn't want to deal with the hassle of buying/owning a car and as always lived in the city and just busses everywhere.  So it's me and only me driving the car!

Although, he did just get his permit (my nagging finally paid off!) so he's been practiing a little in mine.  Not the most relaxing situation as a passenger though...