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Husband quirks
My darling husband, the love of my life and smartest man I know, has this quirk of losing things. He loses keys, wallet, remotes, etc.on a almost daily basis. Most days he blames me for "moving" said lost item before finding it in a strange place he left it (keys in the fridge, phone in the closet, wallet in kitchen drawers).
When he gets stressed out, this "quirk" is heightened. In the past four days before our big move, he lost the dog's paperwork to get on the airplane (we had to go get new paperwork an hour away), his cell phone (found 3 hours later in the very back of the closet), the Israeli debit card (no idea where that is), the American credit card (left at his university's coffee shop) and just informed me he can't find his passport.
I'm locking this man in the house until our flight and he isn't allowed to touch anything! Any other husbands have endearing, yet totally frustrating "quirks"?
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Mine has the same problem, and will actually ask me how things are spelled in Spanish from time to time. It makes learning English incredibly difficult! He's scary smart, but anything related to language is a challenge.
My husband collects wadded up bits of paper from everywhere. Receipts, little notes, napkins, paper towels, etc. and shoves them in his pockets.
Then the pockets get dumped on the nightstand.
Then the little bits of paper accumulate until I buy a small tabletop bin for him to throw his pocket stuff in.
Then the bin overflows.
Then I throw it all away without a single care if there might have been something important in there.
My husband can't hunt, forage, build, kill, or find water, but if you need to wipe your hands after the apocalypse, he is your man.
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DH has this terrible habit of laughing when I get upset or when I don't mean to be funny. It drives me crazy, but actually it helps keep our fights much less dramatic. I have a tendency to blow up and yell, and I can't do that very well when he's laughing.
It is a little scary that he seems to do the same thing with MIL I guess it's his way of dealing with emotional women.
Oh my god...I'm just like his mother...
DH likes to collect kleenex. Not used ones...but he'll pick up napkins, kleenex, etc and stuff it in his pockets, just in case he gets a runny nose. Then, he'll leave the unused kleenex on the tray where we keep all our keys, until eventually it's overflowing. Then I toss it, and we start all over again.
DH also has this unique ability to focus solely on what he's doing...and tune everything else out. The house could be burning down, but if he's got an excel spreadsheet open, he'd burn with it! That one is a bit more frustrating than the other, but I still love him for it!
FH is forgetful as well and doesn't find things very easily. I call it male pattern blindness.
He also has the ability to tune everything else out. I find it really annoying at times because in order to know that he will hear me I'll have to clap and be like, "wait, are you paying attention yet?" before I can start talking. Otherwise I get annoyed because I think he's not listening to me.
I'm the tuner-outer in our relationship. Sometimes DH has to ask me three times if I'm in the middle of doing something before I realize he's even there. It drives him nuts sometimes so I'm trying to get better.
DH is also fairly forgetful and once lost a brand new cell phone in a tux he was trying on. Or he'll be looking for something and I finally get up to help look and it's in the most obvious place...Doh!
He also seems incapable of getting a towel before going into the bathroom (when he's going to wash his face or something -- not his usual towel which stays in there) so he is constanty using the handtowel. I can't explain why but he seems incapable of thinking ahead in that situation or why it makes me irrationally stabby to see the handtowel hanging backwards or tossed on the floor. I'd say this goes hand in hand with his forgetfulness, but he's getting better about it.
Haha This. My DH will always ask me where something is before looking for it and it's usually right in front of his face - sometimes literally. Once he asked me where his work out paper is and it was tucked into his shorts! And he forgets to get a clean towel before showering. This morning he just used mine instead...
DH also has a weird thing about symmetry...thankfully we have not had to deal with this too much (never owned our own place and bought much furniture yet) but something like a couch with only one side as a chaise lounge would drive him NUTS bc its not symmetrical. Also, pictures on the wall not being even - would kill him, haha. And I am one of the most crooked people ever...cannot cut a straight line to save my life!
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