A GTKY: Things your SO Does that Drive you Nuts!

lgsdesigner · July 2014

Spill it girls...what are some things your SO does that drives you up the wall?

Here are things my fiancé does:

- Doesn't replace the toilet paper, and leaves an empty roll.

- Leaves toothpaste in the sink after brushing.

- Throws clothes on the floor/bed.

- Fills the sink with dirty dishes even though the dishwasher is completely empty.

In his defense-- when he does clean, he cleans REALLY good, and is a pro at bathroom cleaning (something I despise). So...I'll at least give him that.

kelley72 · July 2014

I do not have an overly clean nor an overly messy guy, plus that sort of thing doesn't typically bother me. However; he drives me crazy with his tv viewing. First the tv is either way too loud or too quiet, if its something I'm remotely interested in I want to hear the dialoge but not screaming at me... and the shows he likes aren't my favorites. We have a handful we watch together but generally tv viewing is done separately.

Austrogermokee · July 2014

When we walk somewhere, he barrels down the middle of the sidewalk so people have to jump out of his way. He also never waits for me, and is always half a block ahead. Then he wonders why I don't want to go for a walk with him...

Also, he monopolizes the TV for hours, watching DVDs I have no interest in. But he's always watching something on his iPad at the same time, so it's not really like he's paying attention to whatever it is he's making me sit through. Oh, and it gets better - when we watch a DVD together, he's fiddling with his iPad the whole time, but looks up every five minutes to ask me a million questions about what's going on. YOU WOULD KNOW IF YOU WATCHED THE SHOW, DUDE. In related news, I may be a widow before we get to the end of Game of Thrones.

mattandlora · July 2014

Clothes. oh. my. god. I have to wade through his pile of dirty clothes to get to the dresser. Then I have to move them all to get it open.

lgsdesigner · July 2014

@Austrogermokee- LOL at Game of Thrones. My fiance watched it for about 2 weeks and became obsessed with it (where he would stay up til 1am on a workday), and so he decided to stop watching it cold turkey. I watched one episode with him and was like "Looks like violent porn."

Austrogermokee · July 2014

I'm really enjoying it, though I have to look away for the more violent stuff. I do love that any time they have to do a boring exposition scene, they throw in a naked hooker to make it more interesting.

DH is driving me BONKERS though - there are a million characters and plot twists, and if you don't pay attention you'll get completely lost. He keeps talking right in the middle of a scene to ask me what's going on, which means that I miss stuff and get lost too. I swear I'm going to lose my mind.

lgsdesigner · July 2014

@Austrogermokee - Yeah-- I totally understand. Don't get me wrong, I like sexually-explicit shows. But...the violence is just...too much. Like you, I had to turn away a few times. Especially during that awful fight scene between The Red Viper and The Mountain. WHOA.

Austrogermokee · July 2014

Right now I'm on season three and sitting through Theon getting gruesomely tortured. Like, we get it, enough already!

kelley72 · July 2014

I Love GOT so when dh is watching that or any other HBO/Showtime, etc series we are watching those together... except dh will watch them over and over and over. Seriously like six or more times. No, I've got too much to do for that.

Have ya'll seen Ray Donavan? It's great! Power? It's ok. Love Masters of Sex and previously my long standing favorite ever series production was The Tudors

meredithcarole · July 2014

DH does discard clothes all over the floor on his side of the bed and the closet (like mere inches from the hamper) and he leaves the TV on when he leaves the room to go to his office.

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KirstenAlecia · July 2014

My husband used to be such a NAG......litterally he was the bitchy wife in our relationship for the longest time.......he is much better now though.

The thing he does now that drives me nuts is saying

"If you had a real job........"

grrrrrrrr......

TAT2MAMI · July 2014

My DH also had the annoying habit of putting drink containers back into the fridge EMPTY, or with a tiny sip left.
He also will sometimes eat the last of things that he knows that I like. I am a picky eater. He is not. Out of all the things he chooses, it's the few things that I eat, like leftovers. And he doesn't ask first which annoys the crap out of me.
And lastly, it's the usual clothes on the floor, but that doesn't bother me as much as it used to.

lcwed · July 2014

I love how this turned into a total GOT discussion. I love the show but we have not made it past season 2. Can't watch it while DD is up and then totally exhausted once she is down for the night. I agree about the violent porn part. I've read the books and there is way more sex in the show than the books. I think the premium channels do that because they think people won't watch otherwise.

DH most annoying thing is pointing out things that are left out. I'm not the most domestic of goddesses, but if something is left out or not done, I just do it and move on. DH feels the need to point it out which drives me nutty sometimes because I don't point out things to him. The 12+boxes of comic books that cover our closet floor is a close 2nd.

Austrogermokee · July 2014

TAT2MAMI, my DH does that too! If I bring home leftovers from a restaurant, or get myself a special treat from the store, he'll gobble it right up without asking. I've started hiding food from him.

CML11 · July 2014

My DH know how to cook two things, grilled cheese or french toast. I'm pretty sure this was what sustained him for dinner every night until I came along.
So if I have something to do and he has to fend for himself for dinner you can bet there's a dirty grilled cheese pan on the stove. When I ask when he's going to clean it he will usually say "I've got to let it cool". Two days later if I let it, it will still be on the stove. Pretty sure it's cool now. Drives me bananas.
Also when he has the TV on some Ax men, hunting or ice trucker show while searching for crap on Craigslist. God forbid I change it. Sometimes he even tries to rewind it to where he stopped paying attention then I have to RE-watch it!! That's fun too.

SillySally24 · July 2014

My OH would probably say I'm the one who drives him nuts with a lot of what others have mentioned so far - LOL! He's a bit more "OCD" about a lot of the house stuff.

What does drive me nuts is how inflexible he can be with some of the simple stupid stuff. Like, he does not like watching sports on TV - fine, but would it kill him to watch a couple of innings of baseball or a football quarter with me once in a while... And with the house stuff, do the dishes have to be washed immediately after dinner, can't they wait for 20 mins?

Yeah - I'm more the stereotypical guy in the relationship )

URMySunshine77 · July 2014

DH always says that he wants to get rid of a dowry chest my parents gave me for my eighth grade graduation; however, he uses it as a second dresser so I don't understand this logic. He keeps all of his jeans and sweatshirts strewn about it.

He sleeps on the couch at night so he can stay up late working (or get up early to work), but he knows how much I want us to sleep together.

hooligans4 · August 2014

@KirstenAlecia my husband says the same thing about me having a "real" job. It drives me nuts. I babysit from home and make cakes on the side. Trust me I work!!!!!

DH also loves to point out that the house isn't spotless. It's not dirty because I am cleaning something 24/7, it's just not neat. I have a tiny house and we have a lot if stuff. So there is no where to put everything away so things are always visible.
He wants our house to be as neat and tidy as his friends (they have 4 kids) but I have to constantly point out that his friends wife neglects her children all day while she is cleaning her house. Sorry buddy not going to happen because my kids and the kids I sit for come first, always!!!!

KirstenAlecia · August 2014

@Hooligans4 taking care of children IS a job.....SO IS BAKING. People are hiring you and paying you.....its a job!!!!!

These men!

crankstergangster · August 2014

I'm with the original poster....the toilet paper roll is seriously pissing me off. The whole toilet in general is an issue.

And his snoring. It's epic. I've wanted to murder him in his sleep over it.

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