Dear Parent's of Husband/Fi

mandysmear

As a result, he has a permanent line across his nose. So does Mike!!  Oh my god, that's what it's from.  We could never figure it out.After you eat something with fine bits of anything check your teeth.  He always comes home from work with something in his teeth.  I always wonder how long it's been there and if his work buddies have been snickering behind his back for 6 hours.

FutureMrsDudley55

Please clean out the sink after trimming your beard/mustache/goatee. You really don't need to leave the water running WHILE brushing your teeth. Turn it off when you aren't using it.

georgia_bride09

Dudley, he used to smoke as well, and he claims he "quit" smoking, but really he just "switched" to dipping, which is just as bad in different ways. Between his mom and I, we try to tell him how bad it is, but he doesn't want to hear it. Every few months, he points out how much he has cut down ("in the last couple of days, I've only had five dips as opposed to seven") but he always goes back up. He just doesn't see it as a problem, which in itself is a problem. I'm this close to leaving brochures around the house and taping anti-dipping stuff to the wall beside the toilet. I did this with my parents about their smoking. Never worked, but it made me feel better.

TheSaltyPeanut

Last night FI and I decided to make a pizza. I was in the living room organizing my beads when I heard the familiar war cry, “(MY NAME)"! COME HERE!!!” “WHAT?!” I yelled. He then informed me that he had “too much stuff” to take downstairs to the living room. I then realized that FI had: 1) a pizza and 2) a can of soda. Wondering what was so complex about the situation, I rushed into the kitchen. Standing inside of the kitchen was my disgruntled fiancé with a can of soda, a cup of ice, a pizza and a pizza cutter sticking out of his back pocket. After staring at him for 10 solid seconds, I attempted to verify that he was, in fact, planning on taking the pizza downstairs and cutting it with the pizza cutter downstairs on our brand new furniture/coffee table. I really was at a loss for words so I chose my words carefully and spoke slowly. “So… uh… explain to me why it would be a bad idea to NOT JUST CUT THE PIZZA HERE IN THE KITCHEN??!?!? “Shut up (My name)!... You don’t even know!” replied FI as his face turned 6 different shades of red. I retrieved the pizza cutter from his back pocket, cut the pizza, poured his soda into the glass of ice and sent him downstairs with the pizza in one hand and the glass of soda in the other. He scampered out of the kitchen with both dog and cat in tow. Then he stopped, turned around and asked me if I still wanted to marry him. I said yes.

TheSaltyPeanut

*fiance*

TiDa2009

Please throw away your disgusting spit-bottles.This is one habit I was able to break FI of.  Although, I do still find the odd one if very odd places - like on the window sill, behind the curtains....that it's ok the give just the birthday kid a present on his or her birthday.  His/her siblings will not feel like you love them any less if you don't get them an equal gift, too.  This has to stop before we have kids or we will go broke.

gkb0910

-when you're done in the cabinet, close the cabinet door. - when you take off your socks, do not leave them in the middle of the floor.

Pirata13

not to be a midnight snacker. first of all it's bad to eat in the middle of the night and go back to bed. plus sometimes he eats good stuff I was looking forward to having. or opens a bag of something meant for a work party.

georgia_bride09

Wait... Dudley, am I married to your fiance? My husband leaves his shavings everywhere too. It's not as bad since we've moved, but it's like he doesn't see things I can. He claims it's all cleaned up, when CLEARLY there is still hair everywhere.

[Deleted User]

Men are capable of doing housework.

MNhanley2b

There are other things to do after work/days off than just eat dinner in front of the tv & continue watchng throughout the night.... boardgames or whatever with your FI, cleaning up the house, unpacking the garage... I work too so it should be a two way street since we both work the same hours - but oh boy he's in a garage all day (mechanic) in the heat and I'm in an office w/AC... (trust me my feet & hands appreciate my lunch hour - if only I could extend it) **Ditto everyone's post too! & seran wrap or foil or put a lid on the leftovers in the frig don't just set them in there uncovered!

danieliza1127

Salty - that was a cute story!Georgia and Dudley, I think we're all married to the same guy.

nda_roxybabe

Pirata, T has insomnia and I wake up practically every morning to empty food containers or worst of all, my lunch for the next day or something I really wanted...gone. SO annoying.

georgia_bride09

dani, I was just about to say we're ALL living with some dirty, nasty, gross mo-fo's. Although, I must say that this post makes my husband not seem so bad, since everyone's FI/husband is just as bad.

TiDa2009

-when you're done in the cabinet, close the cabinet door.And dresser drawers.Ditto the shaving issues, too.  If there are still hairs on the sink when he's done (which is disgusting), I'll tell him and he'll be like I don't see them.  Ahhhhh!

mocha beans

When you are told something, please remember it.  Your FI doesn't like repeating herself several times over several days.That not everyone has their whole day planned out 10 minutes after waking up, or even a few hours of waking up.Spices are alphabetized in the drawer, you do know the alphabet, right?  Well, the salt is with the s's, cinnamon is with the c's, get the idea?  They all have labels on the tops of the jars too, read them please.Saltypeanut, that had me busting out laughing.

FutureMrsDudley55

Wait... Dudley, am I married to your fiance?I was just about to say that! They're two peas in a pod it sounds like.Mandy - It took use a while to finally figure out why that line was there too! He only started blowing his nose in the past year because he wants the line to go away now. But I highly doubt it will go away entirely.

FutureMrsDudley55

use = us**

mandysmear

I am pretty lucky.  I got my H right out of his parents' house so i "trained" him.  God, I hate saying that, but it's the truth.  It took about a year, but now he cleans more than I do.  Except for the god damn stove.

mocha beans

I lucked out, FI is generally cleaner than I am.  Except it's annoying when things aren't good enough for his tastes.

FutureMrsDudley55

When you are told something, please remember it. Your FI doesn't like repeating herself several times over several days.This reminds me of the stare that FI gives me when he can't remember something. It's like he is trying to remember where he put things or names etc, and he'll just look at me in the eye with a really serious/puzzling look, just searching for the answer or expecting me to know.

SwedishChick2011

Put your clothes into the hamper, not all.over.the.floor.  Really, it's not that hard.

georgia_bride09

mandy, my husband is fairly good at cleaning every room of the house except the kitchen too. In fact, the stove was dirty last night, and I was too busy to clean it until bedtime, so I figured I'd just do it quickly today before my in-laws come over. We have one of those flat-top stoves that has a rubber edge that just gathers crumbs. I hate it. Give me back my stove eyes anyday.

mocha beans

Dudley, he does this most often with financial stuff.On Monday, he'll ask if I paid the credit card payment.  Yes, $x.Tuesday night, did you pay the CC?  Yes, again $x on Monday.Thursday morning, shiit, did you pay the cc, it's due today? YES, for the love of all that is holy, I paid it on MONDAY, you've asked me twice already, nothing has changed.  *insert evil glare*This has gone on for years.  He did that with my work schedule too, which didn't change on the weekends for years, always the same.

kbdragon

Doing the dishes after dinner does not mean at some unspecified time later in the evening if you don't get busy and forget. It means the time immediately following dinner before you do anything else. Doing the dishes also means rinsing them before putting them in the dishwasher and looking around the kitchen counters, table, and sink for any other dirty dishes and putting them in the dishwasher also.Just because you only drank water out of that glass does not mean it's clean and can be reused indefinately. Ditto on closing the shower curtain for mildew resistance. What is he doing in there that he must scrunch it up as tightly as possible? Do I want to know?Also "cleaning house" or especially "cleaning the bathroom" does not mean putting a few things away or straightening things on a shelf or even going through some papers. If I meant that I would have said "organizing the house". Cleaning involves lots of sweeping, scrubbing, and lysol. And yes, I would like some help, preferably before I am almost finished anyway, which is when you ask.

angiebear11

The microwave is not a storage compartment. It's not?

jadebaby

I am a lurker... (Bmore board is my normal hang out) but thought I might share... throwing the wet towel on the floor/bed is not a good idea using the same sponge that I use to wash the dishes should NOT be used to wipe up something off the floor. closing the shower liner after a shower is a good idea. That way it does not mold. (I think he thinks the shower ninjas are gonna jump out and attack him when he is vulnerable and on the toilet)

bombtones

How to talk to other adults. ex: make dr/dentist appts, make returns at stores... One time he paid $20 for 4 12-packs of Pepsi that was on sale for $12 because he didn't have the balls to say, "I forgot my card. Can you scan one for me?"

jasmineh7777

Ditto on the calling thing. If you say you will be home at 5 and you are still m.i.a. at 6:30 I am going to be annoyed. Also, do not clip your toenails in the living room and the throw them on the floor! I caught him in the act yesterday and his only defense was the sad puppy look. Do not leave the dishes for two days and then say "I told you I was going to do it" when I do them. Going to do it doesn't matter when I need them to cook with now.

TeaForMe

Yeah, I'm also the messier of household apparently. However, it is appropriate, polite and generally accepted that when speaking on the phone, one says "goodbye" before hanging up rather than "okay". Just because your dad or your friend Mike don't say goodbye either doesn't mean you can get away with it.And I will call you back to tell you so, too.