What does your DH or partner do that irritates the hell out of you?

Putting dirty mugs and bowls on the worktop ABOVE the dishwasher ,even when said dishwasher is empty! I could go on but I'll just share that one!!

Mr P also specialises in speed undressing! This results in a polo shirt, sweatshirt or fleece plus sometimes a zip up over fleece/sweatshirt type thing being removed all together, and then presented for washing in a clump. Grrrr!

Solved the remote control issue by having one each

The level of volume is our issue. OH has it VERY LOUD & I find it unbearable. We put the subtitles on, but he still has the volume up high He insists that I have sensitive hearing

OH can't bear to throw anything 'useful' away especially bits of electric cable and wires, which he stashes away in any 'available ' drawer. His sock drawer, hanky drawer, the 'best' cutlery drawer and several other kitchen drawers are now stuffed full of these useless items. He also puts broken electrical goods into the garage to heal.

. ("to heal" ! )

Found OH testing the scanner-before-last the other day to see whether it had made a miraculous recovery. It hadn't! So it's back in the garage again now.

Oh yes Atqui, that's one I'd forgotten about, though he does it every day - in fact, it happened about 5 minutes ago! Most irritating to see a stack of dirty dishes waiting to jump in the dishwasher by themselves!

My late DH used to chuckle a lot, 'ho, ho, ho' , after every sentence. It used to drive me mad, but what I would give now to hear him ho, ho, hoing. He too was another baby elephant in the bathroom who never cleared up after himself (I don't miss that one!) and before guests arrived he would 'tidy up' in about 5 minutes, something which would probably take me an hour, and the next day I would find everything stuffed behind the sofa or in the under stair cupboard which would then have to be properly tidied up and put away by yours truly..

I've just been reading through all these posts again and giggling my head off. I hadn't realised just how irritating my DH is - he's guilty of nearly all the irritants listed on here .
- Inability to throw anything away (the portable TV which we replaced because it no longer produced any sound at all was kept 'just in case'.)
- Thinks the remote control is his personal possession - turns off the TV mid news item, without even noticing that I was following it.
- Has to be the one to find the item I'm looking for in a shop. Rushes off like a mad thing, scuttling around everywhere, so he can triumphantly call 'over here!'
- Oh the throat clearing (er, yes, 'hawking' as someone else put it upthread ). He says he feels all the time as if there's congestion, but he can't ever clear it. Will he go to his GP though? Oh no.
BUT
- He walks our son's dog every day - and our daughter's dog 2 or 3 times a week.
- He cleans up the kitchen, empties the dishwasher, cleans the cooker, every day.
- He spends an hour every dry day throughout the spring and summer trying to keep the garden under control (in fact he's already started on it this week)
- He cleans both the cars.
- He does his own washing
- He often does the shopping on his own, including picking things up for our DD, who doesn't drive (and then won't take any money from her)
- He often takes our GS1 to basketball practice, so our DS doesn't have to rush around like an idiot.
- He bought me a present on his birthday
- He cooks a mean curry.
So I'll put up with him for a while longer

Can identify with all of the comments except for the toenails clippings. But my own personal favourite is when he logs on with his tablet and then huffs and puffs , swears and says " this isn't working properly" it's NOT the tablet / internet connection/ search engine its HIM.

Indinana sounds like a keeper to me

I'm not swapping mine anytime soon

Just reading through this thread (as well as others) having a giggle, but now feeling the need to make a very loud noise in order to shock my D(baby elephant) H. Which might stop the "poooo" snoring.. It's not even real "oink" snoring it's that horrible "phfffffff" "phooooo" thing .

Help I am about to smother him.

Shall I and bear it or ??

gillybob . There is a third option, of course - move into the spare room. That's what I did when I couldn't take the sleepless nights any more. Ah the bliss! A snore-free room with a double bed all to myself

Slight problemo Indiana I don't have a "spare" room. I only have 2 bedrooms and the second room is bunk beds and a little pull out (for the 3 DGC) . I don't think I could sleep in any of those with my back .

He is NOW driving me bonkers !

Oh, well it'll have to be earplugs then.... [sympathy emoticon]

This is such a funny thread I too have slept in a separate room for years but it was discovered he had sleep apnoea some years ago so now has a Cpap machine which has stopped his snoring during the night (not on the sofa though) so I no longer hear him through the floorboards! Another thing he does is sit staring into space if he's bored - no tv on, no iPad, phone or anything else - says he's 'thinking' but makes me feel guilty if I'm not sitting with him. He also starts to clear away the table when he's finished - even if I haven't! On the plus side though he drives us everywhere, insists on paying for everything when we're out, would sell his soul to help our family, and has (and still does) worked incredibly long hours all his life so no - I wouldn't swap mine either

Pretty much everything!

Granarchist are we married to brothers?

What a good laugh I've had reading all this! Don't know what my dear late husband would have been doing to irritate me. He certainly didn't do anything that I can think of. I just miss him so so much. So be grateful you still have yours. You never know! ...

He sings familiar songs and gets the words.wrong. He sings the same wrong words every time. Annoying in a very small way.

If DH mispronounces a word, he'll keep mispronouncing it, even if someone tells him what the correct pronunciation is. Not a terrible fault, really, but oh!

Hi everyone,
I'm new here but I just had to jump into this one, hop you don't mind without a formal introduction.

My hubby has the most annoying habit of picking his fingernails, anywhere and everywhere.
He will then leave the pickings wherever he happened to be at the time the picking occurred.

I have told him about it over and over again but he just laughs, he thinks its funny.

Grrrrrrrrrr

A warm welcome to GN middleagedmenopausalmum blimey that took some typing !

I told my DH off yesterday morning after a particularly noisy wash. He just doesn't get it and like your DH he just laughs it off.

He tells me that I have got annoying habits too but he chooses to keep them to himself. I asked him to point any one of them out and he said he would prefer not to ! Yeah likely.

in other words I am like Mary Poppins. Practically perfect in every way

Wendysue DH does that too, and with people's names.
His dear mum gave us much hilarity as she came out with many unintentional spoonerisms (we never let on ).

Mine never drinks the bit at the bottom of the cup. When asked why, he says he doesn't like that bit and could I not put it in in future.