re: Care to share some bad habits of your significant other?

The late thing!!! My wife will fill every waking available minute with the pace of her getting ready such that she will never be ready early, at best case be ready on time, and in most cases be 15-35 minutes late. I’ve just started lying to her about when we need to leave. It worked for a while and we would get places on time, but I think she’s on to me because she’s been more and more late. She’s clearly testing me.

A lot of her other things have been covered. But here’s one I haven’t seen yet. She will walk in to our media room when I’m watching something and be halfway through a sentence. She enters the room talking and continues until I look up from the show I’ve been engrossed in and try to catch up to whatever the frick she’s talking about. Thank god for the DVR. If not for my ability to pause and rewind live TV we’d either be divorced or I’d be in jail.

Last one: she’s what I call an “Ambush Talker”. She’ll ask me ambiguous questions with just enough information so that there’s a damn good chance I’ll answer incorrectly. She’ll say “ did you do that thing I asked you?” Which puts me in fricking guessing mode. Maybe?? Just ask’ “did you take out the trash and check the mail?” How fricking hard is that???

My spouse is incredibly messy and disorganized when it comes to the house. Her office is a pig sty. However, at work, she's a dynamic force and earns more than double what I do, so she can afford the housekeeper to clean up behind her.

Like others have said, my wife collects trash in her car like it is gold nuggets.

I have no idea how it can look like a scene from Wall-E in 24 hours after its cleaned.

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My last GF would do that in public sometimes. Like we were shopping at the store and stuff

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Oh she had no problem with that. She was quite the fan of trying to dutch oven me.

In addition to MANY others already mentioned on the board, there are the issues with wastepaper baskets, trash cans, and recycling:

-- Will never smash/collapse anything before putting it in trash. Empty tissue box takes up half the volume of a wastepaper basket-- no matter, she's just putting it in there whole. A 2 year-old could crush an empty Dasani bottle, but she won't bother (and she goes through more than a case of that a week!)

-- Same thing with recycling bin. Big-arse boxes from whatever she just got delivered from Amazon, empty 12-pack box of HER soft drink, etc. Goes into the recycling bin and in one fell swoop bin goes from being half-empty to over-the-top full. How hard can it be to be a little considerate?

-- Finishes a soda can, she NOW rinses it (after I bugged her about it) before throwing it in recycling bin-- yeah, "rinses" it by running about 1/4 teaspoon of water in it and turning it upside down for about 1/4 second. Every week when recycling bins are empty, there's brown sticky spots all over...

-- Will keep piling on trash or recycling items no matter how full it is, and will not compress what's already in there. Doesn't help that wastepaper baskets are usually in corners, so empty tissue boxes, q-tips, makeup sponges, wrappers, empty water bottles, etc. are piled precariously almost twice the height of the container...

I thought women were supposed to be the
clean ones? Lol

Cannot load the dishwasher to save her life and I have banned bottled water because she leaves them all over the house with various levels of water.

Wow, you need a Xanax and to GTF off your lawn

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my wife leaves glasses all over the house...this thread just made me appreciate my wife more

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A large percentage of women collect their hair in the shower like that. We have a metal drain strainer to catch hair and prevent clogs in our showers. No offense, but I'd definitely be more aggravated if my wife was a slob that left dirty dishes everywhere.