What does DH/FI do that drives you crazy?

nda_roxybabe

Haha wellll, I just wanted to clarify.

carrieoz_76

My dog licks the carpet (yes, he's a carpet-licker - harhar).  It's like obsessive licking.  He's happy if he finds something to eat (including spiders - !!), but that's just a bonus.  So weird...FI gives Oz a cookie when he eats a spider.  I'm firmly opposed and have voiced my opposition repeatedly, without success.  Although FI was researching venomous spiders last night, so I may have made some headway.

saschaduran

Oh...here is one I hate.He actually loves all my shows, but sometimes he gets so into them that he will watch the tivo without me!  I get so excited to watch Top Model and Project Runway together and critique the entire episode then he takes all the fun out of it.

anna.oskar

He did it again today.  He takes pictures of me at my worst and ruins the glory pictures.

saschaduran

Carrie...your rug muncher is soo cute!Roxy...did you tell me you have a chihuahua?  Trying to remember.

carrieoz_76

Thx!  I think he's eternally optimistic.  Like, at any moment he'll find a tasty treat.I love that your dogs were in your wedding!  They are a.dorable.

BubbleJ

FI is constantly late everywhere. Even if we leave the same place at the same time, he will get home about 10 min after me. I'm freakishly on time, so it really annoys me. Oh and he says he will do dishes, take out rubbish etc and the forgets. And thats what grinds my gears.

ExpatPumpkin

Carrie, Roxy, Sascha - DH was thisclose to feeding Oscar a booger the other day before I caught him. Poor Oscar, he probably would have eaten it... On the flip side, I do let Oscar lick my feet. I love that dog.

saschaduran

Awww poor Oscar!  You are like his superhero!I also admit to the foot licking.  It feels good! one of them likes to hover over my foot constantly and lick whenever she can.

brandyleighxx

I actually don't have much to complain about! Lucky me.The only things I can think of is that he won't eat leftovers which means we spend more on food.When he does laundry, he doesn't sort my clothes in the proper order (i.e., regular clothes go in one closet and scrubs in the other) even though I do this for him when I do it.When he gets involved in something, he won't stop until it's done. Like installing a program or fixing something. Like this past weekend, we were an hour late leaving for a day trip we were taking because he was trying to install and figure out a computer program.That's all I got!

brandyleighxx

Oh, he also balls his socks up when putting them in laundry.

Nebb

A lot. He wont do things that dont benefit him 100% because he feels they take too much energy (it takes a lot of talking into to get him to go to the mall or the book store, etc). He leaves water all over the bathroom counter. All he ever wants to do is watch tv or movies. He will finish things without asking if I want it or want some, and then say that i never asked for it so he didnt know I wanted it (thats why its polite that you ask me if youre going to finish it!!). He has this... thing on his foot (its like a plantars wart), and he is always sticking it in my face saying "look at it!".Im gonna stop beecause i feel like my list is getting too long heh. Hes not a bad guy just has some annoying habits.

jagore08

DH puts his dirty clothes on the floor RIGHT NEXT to the laundry basket. Drives me insane. Why doesn't he just put them in there? It's not like he has to work at it because there's no lid to the dang thing. He never fills the water pitcher. Puts it right back in the fridge empty. Oh, and he never puts DVDs back where he got them (if he puts them back at all). He has about 300 DVDs (and I wish I were exaggerating) and I took time to alphabetizing them so it doesn't take an hour to find a movie. Now all of my hard work was for nothing and I have DVDs strung around the living room.

clseale13

He takes out the trash but never outs a new bag back into the can. He always swears he'll eat the leftovers so he asks me to make extra. Not only does he almost never eat them...I'm the one that has to discover it weeks later once it's growing fur and producing a smell so awful that even the dog won't touch it. He throws away kitchen sponges before we buy anymore.

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He takes out the trash but never outs a new bag back into the can. FI did this for a long time. It drove me nuts. It got to the point where I would yell at him and make him put a new one in before he walked the full bag down to the garage. He's pretty good about it now. He also toots and is completely unaware of how bad they smell.

Sooles

again with the glasses. he will store up to 7 or 8 glasses on his computer desk... but he takes it to the next level - if i mention it, he starts to store them in the bathroom. i will go in there to pee and theres a glass on the counter. go back an hour later, three glasses on the counter. and so on. in the bathroom! others:-also clips his toenails in the living room. insists he will throw all the nails out but they always get in the carpet and i step on them!-will ignore me for hours to play his WoW game (which is fine) but only when i start to do something productive (rather than watch tv) will he actually want to cuddle or talk to me.-we never have leftovers because he will go back for seconds, then whine in agony for hours over how he ate too much and his tummy hurts. at least 3 nights a week.-he will eat enormous "snacks" (a full plate of chicken fingers or box of mozza sticks for example) at 5:00 when he knows i get home and make dinner at 5:30.ok thats enough for now, cuz im starting to feel bad.

lyndausvi

oh god where to start?He does the trash bag thing also.When he comes home from work he just takes off his pants and socks where the hell he feels like.  I find rolled up little black socks everywhere instead of the laundry basket.  Leaving things in his pockets.  I've too many pens of his that I refused to do his laundry for a while.  He is better now.Not putting his clothes in the right drawers.  It would not be so bad if he didn't always ask me where such and such was.  "Umm.. if I put it away it would be in the right drawer, since you decide to put everything in random drawers I have not a clue"Leaving ovens and burners on after cooking.  It drives me crazy.  But I understand why he does it.  Commerical kitchens always have those things on, so he just does not think about the fact he is home.Not washing the dishes..  Again a product of his job.  He has people to do that, so he just does not think about it at home.  When he does thinkg about it he does such a bad job what's the point.  Plus his mom never let him wash dishes.Farting all dam nights.  it's like a concert.  The louds ones do not smell, but the silents ones are terrible.LOL - he must know I'm writing this because he just put his clothes away.  Ummm

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Leaving things in his pockets. I've too many pens of his that I refused to do his laundry for a while. He is better now.This is how I got him to kick the habit too.

clseale13

Well clearly we all need to take some FI/DH training tips from cew515.

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I've been lucky in that my FI is very "trainable". He's much younger than me and I was his first real serious gf, so I got to mold him.

SwedishChick2011

Mine leaves his clothes all over the floor, when we have two perfectly good hampers.  Sigh. 

SwedishChick2011

Cew, I wish I could train my DH.  He's 3 years older than me and lived by himself for at least 7 years, so he's kind of set in his ways.

a_schaal

He takes his shoes off mid-stride, and leaves them wherever they land.   He gnaws on his cuticles until they bleed.. but he's been trying to stop, as I've been threatening to make him get a manicure if his hands are still mangled by two days before the wedding.  And he never wants food until I'm the one eating it.  If I make myself a snack, he'll sidle up to me right quick with a "whaaaaaaaatcha got there?!"There are so many things that I've picked up after over four years of living together, but I can't think of any more right now.

Nebb

Hahaha aschaal, my husband does that with snacks too.

baystateapple

Leaves empty Pepsi cans all over his desk, the coffee table, the entertainment center (while he's playing Halo 3 with his online buddies). Plays Halo 3 and shouts over his headset to his buddies while they're playing grifball (a side game to Halo 3). Says he's going to do the dishes but never does. Throws dirty laundry on top of clean laundry. Says he's going to eat leftovers, and then never does, so I'm always cleaning out rotten food from the fridge.  It's disgusting.

bbyckes

It's a small thing, but it just bugs the eff out of me.Dinner is ready, plated and on the table.  Where is FI?  Upstairs on the computer with his headphones on.  Where am I? At the bottom of the stairs screaming at the top of my lungs that dinner is ready.  Literally, SCREAMING.  10-15 minutes later he straggles downstairs like, "What?"  Doesn't understand AT.ALL why I'm upset.Rule in my house: We eat together as a family.  If you're upstairs and we're downstairs this is an impossibility.  If someone takes the time to cook for you, you should respect them enough to come down and eat it when it's ready.Ok, vent over.  But, I HATE this.

mandapanda78

Chews with his mouth open. He is otherwise a very polished and well mannered guy, but his chewing habits are vile. I've gently mentioned this to him in the past, but he gets better for a few days and then it's back to the noisy chewing. Ugh.

maggyruth

I don't live with him yet, so I'm sure I'll find more annoying habits, but for right now, I'll go with leaving cereal boxes/bags open.  Dude, you need to fold the inside bag over so the cereal doesn't get stale.  And is it really that difficult to do the ziploc closey thing on the bagged cereal?  Really?

jfgrad06

DH will cook dinner and use tons of dishes and just leave them. His idea of doing the dishes adding soap, and filling the sink with water. He seems to forget the grab a sponge, wash them, rinse them, let them dry, and put them away part. Apparently, that's "my job."Oh, but I think my favorite is leaving trash NEAR the trash can...but not actually in it. DH will leave empty bottles or whatever sitting on the counter beside the trash can instead of lifting the lid and throwing them away. Who does that!?

amlewis83

It drives me nuts when he wakes me up out of his boredom. His money habits annoy me but are slowly improving. Oh, and when he is late or cancels plans due to sports. Watch ESPN, they will show the HR, touchdown, whatever it 10 times later.