Your pet peeves with DH/SO

catahoulatte · February 2011

Stolen from another board.

So with all that we are experiencing with pregnancy (good, bad, and hilarious)-our SOs are getting off relatively easy. So what is your husband/partner doing that is irritating you? Let it out!

Mine: His sympathy pregnancy stuff goes too far. I tell him that he has to cook his own fish because I want turkey chili for dinner=he wants some of my chili. I tell him chicken looks and tastes gross=he thinks it does too. Give me a break! LOL

twohniyt · February 2011

My hubby has been pretty great through all this, but his overprotectivness can be a little irritating. I'm a stomach sleeper, which he thinks is hurting the baby. I hug him and he thinks I'm squishing the baby. I've told him over and over the baby is well protected and even had the doctor tell him that. He also remembers everything the doctor tells me not to do and if I lift something too heavy he says something. Just little things like that.

BakingMrsC · February 2011

My husbands lack of focus! We started our registry on Sunday, and I was looking at something and said what do you think? I looked at him and he was staring out the only window in the store! I asked what are you looking at? He said " I can see the car from here, it's dirty" I got irritated and yelled at him to pay attention! I would be better off doing the registry stuff by myself, he only agrees with everything I say anyway. Ugh!

SethandMelissa · February 2011

Mine has been overseeing every last thing I eat or in my case, don't eat. I've had really strong aversions to meat and he's insistent that I'm not getting enough protein. He buys protein supplements and gets mad when I tell him the texture will make me throw up. I could really use a week in a hotel to myself. How bad is that?

SarahRuthG · February 2011

My H can be seriously stupid at time.

My due date is Aug 26th, we live in CT. His cousin's wedding is Sept 4th in OK. We are NOT going. That was decided right away, obviously flying half way across the country with a 7 old baby ( or more or less or maybe the baby hasn't even come out yet!) is not a good idea.

We were driving this weekend and the wedding came up. I said "You should really call her (cousin) and make sure she understands why we can't come." She is very young so I'm not sure if it is obvious to her or not. Plus it would be nice to say something in person verses an email/text. He says "I know! We can rent an RV and drive to Ok for the wedding!"

After I picked up jaw up I freaked out on him. Yeah, that's a great idea! Ahhhh! I didn't talk to him for 1/2 hour because I was fumming.

He always says stupid things like that. He doens't think, he just opens his mouth and whatever comes out, comes out. Sometimes it really makes me feel like he doesn't think of anyone but himself. Grrrr!

sweetbabyblack · February 2011

My husband is pretty good... but he has his typical male moments. It still seems as though he expects a lot from me still... in terms of house work, etc. Also, he's not helping with picking out baby names, only shoots down mine. So just little things here and there!

desmerelda317 · February 2011

I don't have any pregnancy related pet-peeves. My pet peeves with DH are just general, life-related ones. Like the fact that every time he goes out of town for work (which is often), he leaves his pajamas on the floor by his side of the bed. He KNOWS he won't be home for a week to wear said pajamas. It isn't like I'll be putting them under his pillow, nicely folded, so that he can wear them again that evening. So WHY can't they make their way to the laundry hamper?! I have no idea. He does this when he deploys too, except with all of his laundry - he goes on a 6+ month deployment, and leaves me with a laundry hamper full of his dirty clothes. Thank you, DH. I so enjoy bawling my eyes out while folding your socks the day after you left for war because I'm thinking about how I am not going to have to wash these again for at least a half a year. Hmm . . . all mine seem to be laundry related lol.

MillerTime13 · February 2011

My biggest complaint is the opposite of yours, C. When I ask for food he makes something else anyway. The other night he was making burgers and was going to the store and I asked him to get fries and cole slaw...and he came home with baked beans and macaroni salad. I got back in the car and went out for the fries myself.

I also got a body pillow to sleep with and he calls it "the husband divider" because it's between us, lol.

Ohhhh, and don't get me started on the name battles.

danni914 · February 2011

He will NOT PUT DOWN THE XBOX CONTROLLER!!!! I walk past with laundry, I dust around the tv, vacuum, etc and I just get yelled at because I "got him killed in his Call of Duty deathmatch!" UGH!

jfgates05 · February 2011

sweetbabyblack:
My husband is pretty good... but he has his typical male moments. It still seems as though he expects a lot from me still... in terms of house work, etc. Also, he's not helping with picking out baby names, only shoots down mine. So just little things here and there!

Pretty sure we're married to the same guy. If he shoots down one more baby name without adding one to the list or "jokingly" asks why I haven't taken out the trash yet.... well, let's just say it won't be pretty.

catahoulatte · February 2011

MillerTime13:

Ohhhh, and don't get me started on the name battles.

Name battles seem common...let's hope that "Noname" doesn't start sounding good to him before August!

DarrenAndMelissa · February 2011

My husband does not believe that cravings and hormonal mood swings are results of pregnancy! Lol. Whenever I try to explain myself by using one of these, he says they are silly excuses that pregnant women believe because it's what they've been told over the years. So, needless to say, if I have a craving, he doesn't go out and get it for me.

Jelliebean1982 · February 2011

My husband has more pregnancy cravings than I do.

B&R+A=love · February 2011

DH eats all the food!! Very few things sound good to me and I usually eat somewhat healthy but sometimes I get a craving for something sweet and when I do I expect it to be in the pantry where I left it and 99% of the time he'll have eaten it!! I am half tempted to start hiding the cookies or a candy bar so that its there next time when I want it. And to top it all off he complains about gaining weight!!!!

B&R+A=love · February 2011

sweetbabyblack:
My husband is pretty good... but he has his typical male moments. It still seems as though he expects a lot from me still... in terms of house work, etc. Also, he's not helping with picking out baby names, only shoots down mine. So just little things here and there!

This too.

jntaylor11 · February 2011

Mine has been pretty good, he does get on my case about needing to eat more veggies, which I do, they are just still really gross to me so far... HOWEVER, and this isn't his fault, I always knew he was a noisy sleeper, I am a light sleeper, I have gotten a little more heavy since ive been married in order to tune him out lol! But since becoming PG sleep has been giving me troubles Sad

so now my peeves are him hogging the bed and resting his elbow on my pillow, also (and I'm sure this is because of my super human sense of smell..) it seems like DH faces me the WHOLE night almost and breaths his dragon breath on me!!! he also chews/grinds his teeth and breaths extremely loud and snores on occasion... Then after a terrible nights sleep, he seems to think he needs four alarms to go off every half hour 15 mins apart in order to wake up for the day... Sad

we are working on changing this as I am starting to get rather grumpy in the mornings...

Gilliebear · February 2011

danni914:
He will NOT PUT DOWN THE XBOX CONTROLLER!!!! I walk past with laundry, I dust around the tv, vacuum, etc and I just get yelled at because I "got him killed in his Call of Duty deathmatch!" UGH!

LOL! You man is probably playing online with my man. Damn xbox!

BakingMrsC · February 2011

jntaylor11:
Mine has been pretty good, he does get on my case about needing to eat more veggies, which I do, they are just still really gross to me so far... HOWEVER, and this isn't his fault, I always knew he was a noisy sleeper, I am a light sleeper, I have gotten a little more heavy since ive been married in order to tune him out lol! But since becoming PG sleep has been giving me troubles so now my peeves are him hogging the bed and resting his elbow on my pillow, also (and I'm sure this is because of my super human sense of smell..) it seems like DH faces me the WHOLE night almost and breaths his dragon breath on me!!! he also chews/grinds his teeth and breaths extremely loud and snores on occasion... Then after a terrible nights sleep, he seems to think he needs four alarms to go off every half hour 15 mins apart in order to wake up for the day... we are working on changing this as I am starting to get rather grumpy in the mornings...

This is exactly my husband, all those things you mentioned!

After the first time the alarm goes off, I make him get up, because if he doesn't I have to hear that stupid alarm song on his phone go off about 5 more times!

MrsMiller1002 · February 2011

DH's snoring... He falls asleep at the drop of a hat.

It's just so annoying!

jess!ca · February 2011

My DH is wonderful. I am so grateful he has been so great about the whole thing... through all of my belly achin' so far, he's been super supportive and overall pretty sympathetic.

I think my pet peeve about him was a "preexisting condition" that just applies to our stage in life right now. He refuses to admit how much things will cost. For example, we were working on our family budget yesterday. We used our "real" expenses from last year and plans for this year to plan our budget and analyze how much of our income needs to go where in our bank accts etc. to pay bills and achieve our goals. At one point, I told him how much daycare would be (based on conversations I have had with moms in my area who send their kids to daycares we are looking at) and he wouldn't believe me. I had to go online to some of the sites and show him! Then he said he wanted to reduce the grocery budget... umm... we will be buying diapers, wipes and other supplies in ADDITION to our usual stuff! I love him, but he is often unwilling to face reality on financial issues...

alubins · February 2011

Jelliebean1982:
My husband has more pregnancy cravings than I do.

This is soooo my husband!

betsy538 · February 2011

My DH eats everything that I buy for myself. Case in point, today I ran home for lunch to heat up some homemade mac and cheese, we had about 4 servings left as of last night...he ate it all for lunch today. I also had some fresh cut pineapple in a container that I was going to eat and he had eaten all of that too. He keeps eating "my" food but never goes to the grocery store to restock. He knows that I'm craving fruit badly and he always eats it or leaves maybe one piece for me. It drives me nuts!

aggiej15 · February 2011

I have a combination of your woes. My husband is definitely obsessed with his playstation 3... I hope this relaxes a bit when baby is born. Our weather just turned nice this week and I can't get him to go outside with me!

I have the finances problem as well. Whenever I try to work on the budget he suggests that we can cut back from our spending last year. I try to explain to him that I cut everywhere I could last year to pay off as much debt as possible because we wanted to have a baby this year. Not only can I not cut any more, but now we will have baby expenses on top of that!

3rdly, and maybe this is a reaction to the finances talk, we agreed that I would be a SAHM when baby is born. We agreed on this before we even got married. I have hated my job for the past couple of years, but to move would mean a pay cut, so DH kept telling me that if I was going to quit when baby was born then just hang in there. Well now his favorite "joke" (I hope it is a joke!) is that I am going back to work after baby. Since I want die every day I hate it so much and I am counting down the days, by the 10th time he said this I told him it is not funny anymore... he still says it like once a week.

On the good side, he loves to feed me my cravings!!

missjilly1025 · February 2011

MillerTime13:

I also got a body pillow to sleep with and he calls it "the husband divider" because it's between us, lol.

This is hilarious!

ETweet · February 2011

DH has been really great and understanding. However there is something that he has done every day since the beginning of time that has never bugged me until now: the gross sound of him breathing and slurping his cereal. Makes me want to barf. I haven't said anything because I know this isn't a change in behavior on his part, just a change in craziness on my part!

Shaynnon · February 2011

MillerTime13:
My biggest complaint is the opposite of yours, C. When I ask for food he makes something else anyway. The other night he was making burgers and was going to the store and I asked him to get fries and cole slaw...and he came home with baked beans and macaroni salad. I got back in the car and went out for the fries myself.
I also got a body pillow to sleep with and he calls it "the husband divider" because it's between us, lol.
Ohhhh, and don't get me started on the name battles.

All of this minus the body pillow. HA.

Our kid might be nameless. We've decided to wait until we know the sex because I honestly started believing he was trying to upset me when he gave name suggestions.

Shaynnon · February 2011

Oh, and my DH is ALWAYS making some kind of noise...tapping, or thumping or something. Normally I just ignore it but since becoming pregnant I'll like zone into whatever noise he's making and it'll start to drive me insane. I give him side-eye and he'll stop. Five minutes later its happening again.

It's totally a habit of his and he's done it forever but sometimes I just have to walk away! Poor DH!

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