re: What’s something your spouse does that you wish they wouldn’t do?

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What’s something your spouse does that you wish they wouldn’t do?

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Nice try Mrs. Brown.

I'm divorced but I think I should contribute. Ex wife and I would never fight from around March to August. Come football season, she's constantly in a bad mood and would start an argument right before I'm about to watch my team play on Sunday. Every. Single. Week.

I thought it was just a hispanic thing. My last 3 couldn't figure out to load a dishwasher. The cuban thought it was a complete waste when you can just wash everything by hand

Tells a story using first and last names of people I don’t know, without any context. She will eventually get to it (what they do, who they are associated with, etc.) but she is deep in the conversation and I am lost. When I ask what they do or where is she going with the story at the start, its a fast pass to the dog house for me.

“load a dishwasher”
Must be a woman thing,my wife can’t figure that out either.
What really irritates me is when she gets something out of the refrigerator and when she puts it back she’ll stick it anywhere.I’m one of those people that like “a place for everything and everything in it’s place.” I don’t want to hunt all over the refigerator if I want a certain thing.

I don’t complain about it,I just rearrange the dishwasher,reorganize the fridge.
Not worth getting in a fuss.

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“load a dishwasher”
Must be a woman thing,my wife can’t figure that out either.

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100%. There's actual scientific reasons for this that involves the difference between men and women's spatial awareness. It's the same reason we're better at loading luggage into the trunk and driving too. Just don't attempt to explain this to your wife, even if it's logical


Back to the thread topic - I'm partially deaf and my wife is well aware of it. It's extremely hard for me to hear and understand someone when I can't see their lips moving. Despite this my wife still gets unreasonably mad at me when she's in another room or turned away from me talking, and I have to say "what?" more than once.

She accuses me of intentionally "not listening to her"

When we are with other people, eating out for instance, as soon as she gets a cue to tell one of her stories, I can predict which story she is about to tell. I have heard each one 1,000 of times.

Any clean flat surface must be instantly covered with clutter.

Buys stuff we already have in pantry. He have 4 little jars of sesame seeds, all half full, same for rice vinegar, white pepper, molasses, paprika, sesame oil and many others.

I cook a lot, I practice mise en place, I get out all of my ingredients and tools before I start. She asks if I finished with that knife yet, can she put the pepper up, as soon as I use something she will snatch it and put it away.

We live life in the Lillian Vernon world. Every trip to Walmart or Target results in some cheap uni-tasker, such as lettuce scissors, Brillo pad holders, garlic crushers, avocado slicers and my all-time favorite, produce freshness bags.

I have learned not to fall for the question "what are your plans for the day?" That immediately put her in charge of enforcing your plans. "You said this morning you were going to get the arborist to trim the trees in case of a hurricane, did you do that?" I no longer ever have any plans.

If she reads a pseudo-health book, say "Corn Starch - The Root of all Cancer", she will throw out the corn starch and try to get me to read the book. This will continue until another article say corn starch is harmless, it's plastic wine corks that are killing us.

I am a semi-retired consultant, people pay good money for my advice and opinion, My wife has a rich social life, the gym, garden clubs, book clubs, political organizations, when she comes home from a meeting or a luncheon she will tell me "Hilda asked me to ask you something, I had no idea what she was talking about, so I told her to just call you, that you wouldn't charge her."

Cannot rewind the vacuum cleaner cord.

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Speeds in neighborhoods... and never uses a blinker

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Immediate grounds for divorce. You married a shitty human

Mine eats at the pace of a maggot. Went to restaurant last night. The boys and I and one of their gfs went to Mexican place. My wife ate one of her three tacos, she finished 20 minutes after we were all done

Then ordered her second two for one margarita. I almost fell asleep at dinner v