re: Let's talk pet peeves you have about your spouse

- those stupid arse Stanley cups. They’re always with her. She puts it in my cup holder and leaves them. Or she leaves them everywhere. Or since they won’t fit in the top part if the dishwasher, they fill up the bottom so you can’t put crap in the dishwasher. I don’t understand why you can’t drink a bottle of water out of the bottle?

- her lack of caring the slightest about technology. She writes lists on paper, uses paper calendars, watches TikTok videos at 1/2 volume when I’m watching something I want to watch. She owns an iPad with a pencil, she uses her phone calendar (the one I share with her) but doesn’t add HER events on it so I’m always double-booking us for shite on weekends. She has AirPods she could do conveniently use on transparency and watch her shite and still communicate. Yet she’s always asking me “when is …?” Or how do I connect my AirPods to my iPad? Or here’s a grocery list (on paper). WTF am I supposed to do with that? I usually take a pic of it on my phone.

- talking in the vehicle when there’s a song I want to listen to or otherwise don’t want to talk. And when I mean talk I mean she rambles for 20-30 minutes about people I barely know and/or care about.

Empties a can of soda in my bathroom sink and then doesn’t throw it away.
Very quick/happy to get rid of my stuff but not her own…even if it was expensive. Ex. I had an expensive pillow I had bought but after a year or so I went to one of those wedge things…left the wedge at a hotel and went looking for my $100 pillow…she had given it away…we have 5 normal pillows on the bed, my pillow is the one that gets tossed.

I’ve come up with a solid solution to the “rejects every suggested restaurant situation.”

I suggest the restaurant, and if she rejects it she then names the next choice which she is incapable of so we go to the original restaurant.

After about 18 months of this we agreed to I suggest three choices and she picks between those three.

But honestly, I’m much more annoying to live with than she is and I’m lucky to have her.

Mine won't go anywhere by herself without keeping me on the phone. Let's say she needs a few items from Target. Instead of stopping there on her way home, she will just go home, wait for me to get there, then try and guilt me into going with her. IF I manage to convince her I'm too tired to go with her, she will agree, then get in the car and proceed to call me literally before she puts the vehicle in drive. I then have to stay on the goddamn phone with her all the way to the store, while she shops in the store, as she checks out, back into the car, and all the way home. If I complain it means I don't love her. With this all said, I guess it could be worse. It means she loves me and doesn't want to be apart. I know she isn't leaving the house to go meet someone else. I can't complain too much because I love her too and she's there when I need her. Women are needy and require constant attention. If you aren't giving it to her someone else might.

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Is OCD-ish about cleaning/washing and expects everyone else to be as well.

The biggest arguments we've had were when I cleaned/swept/etc and she got all huffy because it wasn't up to her standards and now "I'll just have to do it myself! As usual!" To which I respond " and with an attitude like that, you always will"

also loves to put away dishes/utensils while I'm still using them. "I thought I had a knife here a minute ago.....?" turn my back and it's in the dishwasher.

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Lets all take a moment to appreciate how clean these women are though and how much more enjoyable someone like this is to be with. If their house is that clean................

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But honestly, I’m much more annoying to live with than she is and I’m lucky to have her.

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Me too....I wouldn't put up with my shite for 20 minutes....


We had a restaurant close to our house years ago called "It Don't Matter"....it was the first place anyone mentioned when someone asked them where they wanted to eat LOL....did a booming business. Was a pretty good meat and 2 type place. Dude started making money and the landlord wanted to renegotiate the lease and it closed shortly thereafter....

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This weird anxiety she always left her hair accessories on

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Holy crap, this. Without fail, we're getting in the car to leave, "Hold on, I have to go make sure the straightener is unplugged." Or 5 minutes after she's left for work she'll call me to go check.

Thing is, she's never left it plugged in after using in the 10 years we've been together. I even bought her one with an auto-off function. Doesn't matter.

- Leaves doors open
- Complains how busy she is (not discounting that), but then gives herself more responsibility like a second dog or stupid house project.
- She will say she has a headache, or stomach ache, or is tired, but will do absolutely nothing to fix it besides complain on the couch. Go drink some water and take some medicine damnit.

He thinks anything even slightly wet is going to mildew or mold no matter what unless it is left out.

Every day I go behind and move his toothbrush to the drawer/cabinet because it was left over the sink "to dry". Every day I go behind and close the shower curtain because it was left open "for the area to dry". Every day I move the Dawn dish soap from sitting inside the kitchen sink because it was left there "to dry".

I guess it's nice that his habits are out an abundance of caution and cleanliness, but I hate stuff out from where it belongs put away.

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- Complains how busy she is (not discounting that), but then gives herself more responsibility like a second dog or stupid house project.

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This is a great one.