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Things your H does...
that annoy you. Let's put them all down. Not a bash session, just thought since the board is d-e-a-d we could use something to liven it up a bit!! So what does your H do that positively annoys you?
- He grumbles and talks sooo fast I feel like I'm dealing with an auctioneer. Yest I had to have him repeat a 5 word sentence 3 times b/c I could.not.understand him!
- He never puts anything away where it goes. He'll come home from work or school and leave his stuff on the kitchen counter. Or his shoes; they end up all over the house (he generally keeps no less than 5 pairs laying around at any given time) even though he has his own little designated carpet area in the kitchen.
Re: Things your H does...
- I love that he cleans the kitchen but it drives me insane the way he loads the dishwasher and that he never puts the dishes away where the belong.
- He mumbles. I have some mild hearing loss and when there is background noise and he talks to me, I can't hear/understand a word that he says. I get so tired of saying "huh, what?"
- Why do men refuse to throw away stained, old or holey underclothes?!?! Every time I have to fold the whites, I throw away a ton of his stuff. He's started trying to get them folded before I touch them.
Mine's a mumbler, too! And when I ask him to repeat himself, he'll do it with exaggerated care like I'm an imbecile or something. Dude, learn to articulate and I won't ask!
He also snores, which sometimes makes me want to smother him in his sleep.
But he's still a great guy, and I love him.
Holy crap, I didn't realize this problem was so common. I, too, married a mumbler! And he gets really annoyed when I ask him to repeat himself!! Sometimes he'll just kinda huff and say, "Never mind." Or I'll be totally engrossed in something else and he'll say something to me (or yell it across the house) and get annoyed when I ask him to repeat himself.
He randomly decides to start cleaning or organizing something and I have to help him. Like, I'll be in the other room and he'll yell, "Do we need this?" or "What do you want to do with this?" so I have to stop what I'm doing to find out what "this" is. (Yes, I AM happy to have a husband who cleans...it's just that he gets me involved in it whether I'm already busy or not!)
He watches Fox News. Haha.
(Actually I've learned to deal with this rather well, because he does have well-thought out political views, and I respect them, even though I disagree!)
He gets impatient if he doesn't get quick, easy results. Like he's frustrated that it's hard to learn to fly a plane. He was annoyed with his time in the half marathon that we ran, which he did NOT train for. He gets irritated that I run faster than he does (because I run 20-odd miles a week.He used to run circles around me.) He gets impatient that he doesn't lose weight and then he's like, "Hey, let's go to Wendys". (We had a convo about this the other day....he is well aware of it. The funny thing is that he's soooo patient in other areas!)
OK....seriously....that's the worst of it, and the good far outweighs the annoying.
But yes, we are human and we are really good at getting on each others' nerves sometimes!
And then I saw this on the nest homepage. Apparently we're not alone with the mumbly spouses. Too funny!
http://ideas.thenest.com/love-and-sex-advice/my-married-life/blogs/my-married-life-wife-annoyances.aspx
Funny - the things I wrote down that annoy my H about me are the inverses of what annoy me about him. Guess I should be glad our list is pretty short.
I'd add snoring. If I could cure the snoring, I would hug him like a bunny all day long.
It takes him for.ever to get out of bed. He is a chronic snooze buttoner..but once he's up he's so damn chipper. A sing in the shower (same verse on repeat, scooby doo style...UGH!), practical joke playing, speed driving demon. I, on the otherhand, get up when the alarm goes off, but need awhile to get the wheels turning. I do not find the sound of "ringle rells" appealing at 5 am.
He is typically a "whole picture" sort of guy and forgets all of the details. He will "finish" his project and in his mind he's complete. Picking it up and putting it away is a whole other project in his mind. This pertains to everything EXCEPT for when we are having a discussion about an issue. Then, I try to speak in general terms, he wants a specific example, and then perservates in that specific example, thus missing my main idea. I, on the other hand, could give a *** about the specific instances, which he goes into great detail over. Just get to your point already...We are getting much, much better at communicating, though.
He does not directly answer the questions I ask him. Sure, he'll offer a response. But it does not address what I've asked him. A recent example: Me: There aren't any sand bags in the back of the pick up truck. Will I be ok driving in the amount of snow we'll be getting tomorrow without them?
DH: I told you to get new sandbags 2 weeks ago.
Grr! It's not at all WHAT he says that upsets me - it's that his response does NOT answer my question! LOL. We can address this thing from 2 weeks ago, no problem - AFTER YOU ANSWER MY QUESTION! This happens a LOT! And it's not just in person - he does it via email as well.
Phew. I feel better now that I let that out.