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Poll: Tell me something
that drives you nuts about your DH. How would he answer the same question about you?
Re: Poll: Tell me something
He's a slob. I knew it prior to moving in together but sometimes it's really irritating. Like when I get home from working 16 hours and he's asleep on the couch and the house is a disater. All I ask is that he picks up after himself.
Of course, that I nag him about the slob factor!
There are two things that are too close to call. The first his how whenever he calls me he always will ask me what I'm doing, and if I'm just hanging out & watching tv I'll reply "Nothing much" and then he says "Why not?" Ugh. This really drives me crazy. He isn't saying it in a "get off your butt & do something way", he's just asking... and it just makes me crazy when he does that. lol. I don't know why. The other is the fact that getting him to do ANYTHING is like pulling teeth. I usually have to ask him to do something several times which really makes me angry, then he gets upset because I'm angry.
He would probably say my nagging him to do things drives him crazy about me, or when I'm really quiet / don't have much to say. He wants me to talk to him & have lots to say all.the.time & that's just not possible, lol.
It drives me crazy that it doesn't bother him to be late to things that he doesn't consider important. I hate being late for anything. I'm constantly in a rush for everything and he takes his good old time getting ready. For example: he recently joined a soccer league, so he wouldn't be late for a game, but if we have Easter dinner at my aunt's house at 4:00, he wants to leave at 4:00 and get there closer to 4:30. My way around it: I lie about what time things start.
He hates that I'm messy and I am. I know it and I try to get better about it, but I just get too lazy. I wanted to make a serious effort to do a better job with cleaning and housework when we got married, but then I got pregnant soon after and being tired didn't help my motivation. I think one of 2 things with happen after the baby comes: I'll be worse because I'm too busy with the baby all the time or I'll get better knowing that that house needs to be super clean all the time because we have a baby.
Sarah - Having to ask many times is so annoying! He took my full length mirror off of my closet door to hang a work-out thing 4 months ago. I would normally just re-hang the mirror myself but really thought he should do it since he took it down. I have been asking him a couple times a week for 4 months. I finally did it myself Friday. Not happy!
Tracy - My DH checks the door and the stove a million times too! It doesn't bother me though. I just tell him he's ridiculous. And heaven forbid I leave the door unlocked or don't turn on the alarm.
Yes! Oh my goodness... let me tell you one instance - when we moved into our house we took down all the old bathroom fixtures like the towel bars, & TP holders because they were super, super old and really gross & all rusted. We bought new ones and I kept asking Ted over & over if he could hang those new fixtures. I mean, in like November I was asking him to do this. So he won't do it & won't do it, and then we decide to renovate our full bath, so there's no point in him hanging them now. I told him he got lucky that now there's no point in hanging them since we're going to be repainting. He just laughs. It's sooooo irritating.
Ted usually checks the oven to make sure it's off, but that's because I'm notorious for leaving it on, on accident.
Haha! Well, seeing as how we're no longer together- A LOT bothers me about him! But really, it could all be overlooked except the drinking. That got so bad I just couldn't overlook it anymore.
He'd complain that I'm a slob and he's a neat freak. We clashed so many times on what's considered "clean"!
This times a million! Everything is on his time, we leave when he wants, show up when he wants, stay as long as he wants and it SUPER pisses me off. I'm sure I could come up with a long list of things he does, but he did that this weekend and it's still got me on edge lol.
He says I nag, it's really because he's so freaking forgetful so I don't have much of a choice. I either nag, or it doesnt get done!
THIS! I don't think I'm nagging, I'm just 'reminding'. He'll say he'll come to watch a movie with me in 5 minutes, but 20 minutes later he's still doing something else. I don't think it's nagging when I ask him when he's coming in!
He's kind of a neat freak and doesn't always understand that sometimes I just want to lay around and do nothing - even when it's dirty!! To be fair - he does do most of the cleaning b/c of my crazy commute and tends not to bug me about it during the week, but if we have a weekend free we always have to do cleaning!!
This EXACTLY. He's unemployed right now- and he'll sit around all day and do nothing and he wonder why I get annoyed
I'm thinking I missed something =(
It drives me nuts that he is so careless w/ his stuff. He's constantly losing his wallet, phones, and everything else. It drives me nuts!
He probably hates how I always ask him to make the tuna fish b/c I hate my fingers smelling like fish...lol
he tears his finger nails and toe nails. drives me crazy!
i am perfect!
i think he would say how i leave my bathroom sink cover in so much stuff. like lotions, shampoo, and so on.
Ok we are both slobs. We admit that. AND, I also have to "nag" him to do things...like the garbage bag I accidentally made too heavy upstairs. I asked him to take that out about 3 months ago...it's still there. Or, when I ask him to take out the garbage, I put it on the front porch...he will WALK OVER IT to his car in the morning and leave it THEN swears he didn't see it. Really? Nice try! However, what bothers me the most, is he will do things like that...see dishes in the sink and just pile more on top and yet go down to his garage on a saturday and spend 10 hours cleaning it top to bottom or spend 6 hours on a sunday cleaning out his car. Really? Can you put at least 1/8 of that effort on helping me in the house? And get this...ready?...he says he'd glady help me all I have to do is ask. Ok so I'll ask tomorrow and expect it to get done when...in 2012?
The slobbiness will be his complaint on me..go figure. My problem is I get my Irish redhead attitude up and will go on "strike". If he's not going to help, I'm not going to either. Never works...and yet it's all my fault. I forgot I lived alone
He asks questions about everything like he second guesses himself all the time. Sometimes I'll answer and sometimes I just ignore him or tell him why he needs to be more decisive. I don't think he really cares about my answer most of the time and it's just so that it can help him make up his own mind, but it's really irritating.
He would tell me that my hair or complaining about the bed drive him insane. I really don't know how I still have hair on my head with the amount I lose on a daily basis. I mean I sweep and I vacuum but every once in a while he'll find a long hair attached to something and he gets upset. I do have to agree that it's kind of gross. I also can't stand that he sleeps in the dead middle of the bed or sometimes even closer to my edge so I'll wake him up in the middle of the night to move over. One time I even got up and climbed over him to sleep on his side because there was more room there. He thinks I'm nagging.
Ummm... mine would be how he waits until I'm completely ready to go, standing by the door to get ready himself. he says he is, but as soon as I'm getting my shoes on, he's got six more things to do
About me... I'm a travel nazi. If we're going on a trip, a long car ride, whatever, I'm ridiculous about getting going, packing, and being on time/early. If he gets home two hours ahead of schedule, my schedule just adjusts two hours. In his head, we have lots of time, in mine, we are in DIRE straights and need to GO NOW!
hahaha. oh dear. Both are about leaving on time