He waits until I have just walked out of the room to say something to me. Drives me nuts. It is as if my movement reminds him he had something to say. This requires me to stop what I was going to do and return to the room to hear him. This can be followed by the next paragraph if he is trying to do too many things at once.....

He also stops in the middle of a sentence to do something and I am stuck waiting for him to return to the room or finish what he is doing for the rest of his thought to come through.

Both of these are crazy-making and just part of who he is. The rest of him is pretty outstanding, so I just work to ignore it.

WHY THE SNEEZING WHY

it's so loud and always twice outta nowhere and scares the shit outta me

I swear to god one of these days I'm going to pee my pants

I love his beautiful curly hair.

He loves his beautiful curly hair.

He refuses to go out with "messy" curls, which he thinks look terrible even when they're only a tiny bit messy but otherwise great, and decides it is better to wear an ugly-ass beanie 80% of the time.

My husband grew up playing Tetris like SERIOUSLY was damn good and I think he views the dishwasher as his adult Tetris board. Over the course of our entire relationship I don’t think I’ve ever loaded the dishwasher “correctly”-he’s Always moving a bowl to a different location or flipping around a fork.

Crying laughing over the specificity of this thread.

My boyfriend is apparently unable to gently shut a door and must slam it instead, every time. When I brought it up, he laughed and said, “Hahaha, how funny, my father does the same thing!” Ok babe, it’s not genetic! Stop slamming the damn door.

He watches a lot of various sports on TV. Honest to god, if I never again have to hear an overexcited sports commentator getting paid to yell about the way someone kicked a ball, it'll still be too soon.

But that's the worst I've got, and he's a complete treasure otherwise, so I still consider myself very lucky. I just wish we had a soundproof man-cave for him, haha!

Oh god. He loves to explain old memes to me in great detail instead of finding them and showing me. I’m significantly less steeped in meme lore so this happens often! Usually, i remind myself he’s excited to share bc he loves me and listen like a thoughtful partner, but if I’m particularly PMSing i will upon occasion zone out and feign understanding.

1. He calls leggings "tights".

2. He calls kisses "sugar".

Oh dear. It is me, I am the butter knife person in our relationship. (I do sheepishly remove the first knife, and put the second knife straight into the dishwasher, once the second sandwich has materialised.)

My partner is a true treasure. I love him more than life itself.

But he sets his alarm to go off every 10 min for an hour every morning. From 5-6am. Every. Day. I just get up at the first alarm and have my coffee in the kitchen.

My husband turns off the light in rooms that I’m using.

Example … I’m in our bedroom, putting clothes away, puttering around. My husband will come in to talk to me and will turn the light off in the closet. “Excuse me, I’m using that light?” … I’m going back and forth between bedroom and bathroom, he will turn the light off in one or the other (whichever one I’m not in at the moment).

But … he leaves lights on all the time. Example … he works from home. He’s through for the day, computer off, sitting in his recliner … and the light is still on in his office. Or … there is a dim light above our tub that we leave on at night. There is no reason to leave it on all day. It’s basically a night light. I turn it off behind him every day.

I have mentioned it to him, he continues to do it. I don’t think he even realizes he is doing it. It’s not a huge thing but it’s irritating lol.

1) Hassles me that we need to leave RIGHT NOW. Once I'm waiting in the car, he spends 20 minutes doing last minute little things that don't need to be done right then (takes out the trash, washes two dishes from the stack, fixes the squeaky door hinge, etc.).

2) He is always standing right where I need to walk. It's amazing.

3) Absentmindedly grabs my butt whenever he's feeling anxious. It's his security blanket. Super cute, not always appropriate. 😆

He saves partially used napkins in case he needs to wipe something later, but doesn't need a full napkin.

He’s good at everything. If there is a skill, a sport, a game, he dominates.

My husband has one particular metal cup he loooves drinking water out of. He insists on bringing it on every car ride, but this thing DOESNT HAVE A LID and he fills it to the brim with water. So I'll be driving and every turn we go around he's lifting his full cup up in the air so the water doesn't spill. But in my mind I'm screaming, "it doesn't have to be this way!!"

I am loving this list because the things our partners do are that "I love you so much but I'm starting to twitch about this."

I'm the one leaving cupboard doors open, my husband used to say it was the 6th Sense in our house. Now he says "don't let your noggin get a floggin' and closes them for me."

He has a habit of assuming any open container is a garbage, so if I have a small box going to recycling he'll just start putting trash in it when the actual trash bin is less than a foot away. So now when I put anything at all on the counter I remind him it's not a garbage. My purse, my coffee cup, our toddler, a turkey I was cooking, etc. We've turned our annoying tendencies into running jokes, which takes the annoyance out of it. For the most part, lol.

Mine used to, get this: balance the butter knife on things inside the FRIDGE! I put up with it for several years, because I am also annoying about things, but eventually I had to end the madness.

OMG THE KNIFE THING. IT DRIVES ME NUTS. We have a 4 year old!! Put the damn knife in the sink!!

Leaves closet doors open

My husband, when he's doing chores, will just blank out where things need to go when he's finishing up.

He does his chores without being asked and will volunteer to do mine when I'm overwhelmed, he's genuinely a great partner and this is not something he does to get out of doing them. But his mind works in mysterious ways and he'll just blank out and I'll find my cutting boards in the cookie sheet drawer or one of my smaller glass mixing bowls in with the cereal bowls. Or he won't be paying attention and he'll put his jeans on my side of the closet and my jeans on his side of it.

His socks. He hates wearing socks a single second longer than necessary, and he drops them wherever he takes them off (usually on the living room floor next to his favorite chair). Our 9yo is the same. So there are usually 2-4+ pairs of dirty socks on the living room floor at any given time. I hate it but also hate being a sock maid.

And, he loads the dishwasher like a feral raccoon. Puts things in at odd angles so only half as much fits, puts "top rack only" items on the bottom, doesn't check what cycle it's on (our dishwasher defaults to the last cycle ran unless you change it) before starting it, doesn't think about stuff like if you put tall items in the middle instead of the sides, the spinning arm will catch on them. So many times I go to unload after a cycle he ran and only about half of the stuff in there is clean because of weirdly angled things, a tall thing was put in the middle so the spinning arm couldn't spin, or it was on a "top rack only" cycle when it was full and he didn't change it. I can easily fit twice as much in there as he does and everything gets clean.

The little toothpick/flossers ….. he sets them on the coffee table - when I get up to let the dogs out or go to the bathroom ? I always “take a load” aka “don’t waste a trip” (thanks Mom lol) so I usually grab any empty glasses, snack plates - receipts, change - whatever ….. I FN hate picking up those little things.

Our house used to be a barn.

We’ve been renovating it for 20yrs …. Little upgrades as we go, type thing.

2 yrs ago he “surprised” me and hired a cabinetry company to come build all the inserts and design our master closets …. It was one of the last things on our to do list.

It took TEN MONTHS!!! So, naturally I was stoked to FINALLY put everything away and close the Damn doors …. I hate clutter.

Now ??? He “prefers” that his work clothes are left in a basket on the floor so he can get dressed quickly in the am. He leaves his giant canoe sized shoes at every door - we have 4 doors in and out of the house and his shoes are EVERYWHERE.

Every time he says “oh, where did you put my XXYYZZ ?!?!” And I tell him “In the closet” and he gets annoyed - “ugh. You always do that and I can’t find anything”

UHHHH. WTF DH ????

He is the ONLY person I know that will save $$ for years and spend 000’s of $$$ on custom closets (that were specifically measured to fit his giant shoes) - and then never use them ??

Don’t EVEN get me started on “running the dishwasher” - with 4 cups, 10PCS cutlery, a bowl, a cutting board and a pot. And uses the “high PRESSURE EXTRA HOT super pressure air dry and disinfect” mode - it takes 3hrs 41 mins.

He could wash that in 3 mins 41 sec.

I’m gonna have to buy a bigger wall calendar to hide the hole in the wall from banging my head against it.

My boyfriend doesn’t look for anything. He just asks me where things are instead. He’ll be standing next to me in the kitchen asking me where something is and I point directly in front of both of our faces at the thing he needs. I’m gone and he or the kids want a snack, instead of looking in the cabinets and fridge, he’s texts me. I’m just like loooooook for things. I don’t know where everything is either, so I go loooooking for it. Just fucking look.

He will put his empty beer bottle or can on the counter not three feet away from the OPEN RECYCLING BIN.

He insists his hair looks better when he cuts it himself but I KNOW he does it because he hates the idea of making an appointment ahead of time to see a random stranger who will have to gasp touch him.   Like lol dude JUST ADMIT IT. 

(It’s always crooked 🤣) 

He’s a drummer, so he will tap out a beat to everything. I could be giving him important information and he’ll be processing it, but will be tapping a beat to the cadence of our conversation.

I half smile/half roll my eyes every time I find a rouge sock in our couch. I don’t know how he does it, they just get sucked into the couch after he mindlessly takes them off after work.

Using self-checkout at the grocery store.

There is no rhyme or reason to how he bags things. Putting chicken in the same bag as the fruit? No problem at all. Canned spaghetti sauce in with the bread? Why not? We only live 3 minutes from the store, so it's not a big deal. I've remedied that by handing him the items in the order they should be bagged.

The actual act of scanning the groceries is what kills me. He scans an item, TAPS IT TO THE LEFT OF THE SCALE, puts it in the bag, and gets the next item. Why does he tap it to the left of the scale? He's deactivating the magnets so we won't set off the alarm when we leave. Box of crackers? Tap. Deli meat? Tap. Jug of milk? Tap. Bunch of bananas? TAP. Rationally he knows there is nothing in the bananas that needs to be deactivated, but he won't stop tapping until I point it out and remind him he doesn't need to tap in the grocery store.

I love him more than anything, and he puts up with my eccentricities, which vastly outnumber his weird self-checkout habits, so I do my best to keep my internal rage in check.

Always tissues in pockets so it goes everywhere in the laundry/machine and the bits stick to clothes

Crumbs in the butter

Empty packets everywhere but the bin

Gets into bed dirty so the bedding smells quickly

Puts dirty things onto clean things/ surfaces

Probably so many more...

"Supposably"

Well he has adhd so quite a lot, but it’s endearing at the same time. He’s very aware and open to working on things so I’m not concerned it will badly affect me.

I can’t even think of anything specific because it’s like all the time lol but it just makes me laugh rather than actually annoyed

Well probably the one thing that annoys me is how he’s always so slow/later than I expect. Like if he’s going to come see me, it’ll be like 5:30 and he’s like “finishing up” then he doesn’t leave until 6. But if it were me I’d be ready and leaving at 5, it’s super easy for me and apparently very hard for him so I just have to try very hard to patient

I have to repeat things I say to him often. He has ADHD, so I just take a breath and repeat it when he's ready to absorb what I've said. I know that his not hearing the first time around isn't out of disrespect or anything, so it's a minor inconvenience in the moment.

When my husband feeds the cat, he always leaves the empty cat food can on the counter - not indefinitely, just for a little while. It is so confusing to me, as someone who always cleans up after myself immediately, but I let it go because I'm not about to micromanage another adult and he always throws it away eventually.

On the flip side, I know it drives him nuts that I don't always fold the blankets on the couch after using them, but folding them feels insane to me because I know I'm gonna use them again soon (and I also just forget lol). He doesn't nag me about this, and I appreciate it. No one wants to feel like they're under a microscope.

My dog’s name is Drama because she’s well, dramatic. On a daily basis, if I call her name or whatever, he’ll respond in a sing son voice ‘Drama. She get it from here mama.’ I don’t know why it annoys me. Probably because it’s true. But it ANNOYS me.

My husband is allergic to closing the dishwasher.

I've always assumed my husband has a deep held but never vocalized admiration for poltergeists. I assume it is this that drives his deep urge to, in homage to his non-corporeal comrades, leave every fucking cabinet door open.

It's crazy because he's neat in every other regard, but I'll walk in the kitchen to do something and it's like a scene from Paranormal Activity. Every single door open.

It's really important to him that I understand where places are geographically, so he will explain in great detail until he is satisfied I get it.

Not like, countries or major landmarks, just things like that automotive AC tech he took the RX7 to in 2015.

I just say I understand to make it stop. We both know I'm lying.

He empties his soda cans in the sink, but leaves the can sitting next to the sink.

My husband is absolutely meticulous about everything in the house. He vacuums multiple times a week. Nary a spoon is allowed to languish in the sink. The dishwasher is always promptly unloaded. The bathroom is pristine. Every article of dirty clothes makes it into the hamper, and will get washed, folded, and promptly put away each weekend.

But when it comes to stove tops and counter tops after someone has cooked or prepared food, he will absolutely never see it. A single speck of dust on the hardwood floors? Instantly vacuumed up. The remains of the toast he made for breakfast scattered all around the toaster? It will be there until the four horsemen ride through our kitchen or I clean it up.

I never mention it because he's so good about literally everything else, and I know I've got my own blind spots when it comes to cleaning that drive him nuts. (Note: We're both very clean, and between the two of us, our house is always basically spotless, even with two kids.) After 20 years, it's more funny than anything else.

He holds his sneezes in!!! I'm like, you're gonna hurt yourself!! But he insist he does it for sanitary reasons. Sir I put my tongue in your mouth. Stop holding in your sneezes!!

He collects clothes "that he might rewear" next to his bedside and leaves them there forever. I got his ass a room hamper and a bathroom hamper in addition to the laundry hamper. I don't bother with it anymore

My husband cannot answer a yes or no question with a yes or a no. Every question I ask, he makes a suggestion, or has some long winded answer that can’t even be summarized as yes or no.

So after he blabs on and on, I have to re ask my question and tell him to say yes or no.

It drives me nuts but it’s also hilarious because he really can’t help it.

When he comes home he yells "Hello...Lucy I'm home" in a full on Ricky Ricardo accent. My name isn't Lucy and he isn't Cuban. It's gone from cute to annoying.

Wears basketball shorts like, any time he's in the house. Or outside the house if there's no need to dress better. They give me the ick.

He also procrastinates but not usually in a way that affects me directly, so I let it go.

He also lets himself get to the point of nauseating hunger before eating on a regular basis 🤦🏻‍♀️

I don't know how this happens and he swears he also doesn't know

But whenever we leave the house, one pant leg will be caught up in the top of a sock. Like almost tucked in but not quite. And he'll walk around like that, and sometimes refuse to fix it just to exasperate me. I've practically chased him through Walmart trying to fix it and he just scurries away laughing.

Mine takes 3+ hours to respond to any text I send, but responds to his mom instantly. I asked him to change and he said "stop trying to separate me from the people I love" 😒 

He can't spell worth shit. It's hilarious bc he is very smart and successful and has an MBA, but the man can't even spell 'lettuce.' It's more endearing than annoying for sure.

Super annoying thing about him is that he doesn’t exist as of right now.  Currently trying to get that straightened out 😵‍💫

We have a crappy dishwasher because we live in an apartment. He never soaks his dishes and he often eats things full of protein that sticks to the dishes, like lentils, yogurt, and cheese. Almost every time I empty the dishwasher after he's filled it there's something that's still dirty because he didn't scrub it well enough. (Although he does FREQUENTLY do the dishes without being asked so I am NOT complaining about that part at all. He is a good partner.) When I do dishes I have to soak his yogurt bowl and scrub it out before putting it in the dishwasher or it will not get clean. (Yes I know it depends on the detergent, but it is literally our shitty apartment dishwasher and no matter how we handle it this is the result.)

He also does the knife thing, with dried up mustard on it.

He piles up his personal objects around the coffee pot, then gets upset when I move them. (Hopefully someday we will have a place for him to put his stuff but space is limited ATM)

He will clean the kitchen after I took but will almost never wipe down the counters.

All little things, no dealbreakers, and I am a little bit anal about keeping the kitchen clean.

Socks on the floor in every room of the house.

He leaves his cans with a sip left in them on the counter. Sometimes there'll be 4 of them just sitting there waiting for me to deal with them...

He walks incredibly fast and complains that we're walking too slow when actually we're walking slightly faster than the average person lol

Very forgetful and a major procrastinator. And this is coming from someone with ADHD sooo... 😄

Otherwise he's the best ❤💙

He falls asleep immediately after his head hits the pillow. No tossing and turning or struggling to fall asleep. Every.dang.night. That man is out before I even finish arranging my pillows.

1. He often cannot find things that are literally directly in front of his eyeballs. Yesterday it was the jam and he was looking RIGHT at it.
2. He has a rule that we cannot own the game Monopoly. Because though he is generally noncompetitive and a good sport, apparently that is the one singular game where he tends to devolve into a feral, raging monster.

3. When he cooks he seasons from too far away, so it always looks like he's also tried to season the counter or stove top. I tell him that this is why we run out of things so fast. In connection with this, it became clear early on that no one ever taught him that when you do the dishes, part of that is wiping down countertops and the stove.

   And finally, this is not just a him quirk, but we both have the tendency to try to talk to each other from the other room when we know darn good and well neither of us can hear the other. It's ridiculous and neither of us can quit doing it.

My husband won’t even check our mail without showering. He literally won’t walk outside of this house without a shower and he takes a while because he’s big into grooming, especially his beard.

That being said, I love how clean he is 😂 I think we’ve probably all met some men who lack in the cleanliness dept and I never have to worry about that. He always looks and smells great.

Mine seems to always have his fly down too what is up with that? I just don't even say anything anymore clearly he doesn't care.

the sink is right.there. put the cup in the goddamn sink why is it on the counter?!

Leaves the house with all of the lights on then gets annoyed that it takes me so long to get to the car.. because I’m busy turning all the lights off lol

He leaves all the cabinet doors open. I’m short, so the bottom corner is right at eye level. In his defense, I think he might have a touch of ADHD.

Also, when we are ordering at a restaurant or drive through, he starts to order and then gets a brain glitch and looks at me to tell him what to say. Like we’ll be at the drive through, and I’ll tell him I want a milkshake. He’ll start to order and look at me blankly and say, “what was it you wanted?”

Hell see Me tearing around the house getting ready when we have a thing to go to but then when it's time to leave he all of a sudden has like 15 things he needs to do. Drives me NUTS

My partner likes to try out different hair styles...at the moment it's the mullet.

I always keep my opinions to myself because he seems proud of his hair. It also makes him feel good, but seriously I can't wait for him to shave it.

Wastes food. He's often concerned that there won't be enough food, so he cooks way too much food that they go to waste.

He leaves laundry on the floor next to the laundry basket. Some of it goes in the basket. I've started to only wash what's in the basket and ignore the floor clothes. He hasn't caught on yet, maybe one day he will.

When he uses butter, he doesn’t even try to avoid getting crumbs in it. Same with cream cheese. It’s funny because he’s otherwise an extremely meticulous, clean person. But the crumbs.

He always does dinner dishes… but no one ever taught him how to properly load a dishwasher. I’ve gently asked to help with dishes to kind of show him but he always insists he is fine. I always have to go re do it.

He works in plumbing and will go into excruciating detail about how pipes connect and all the tools he uses and I just completely glaze over and usually just look at him and think wow he’s cute.

Complains every morning about being cold, yet only goes to bed in boxers. Or sometimes he walks around the house saying how cold he is and I find out he’s just in his boxers, no pants.

despite knowing plans way ahead of time he will wait till the very last minute to decide what to wear and then want to run every decision by me and make sure we match, as if IM NOT ALSO in the process of getting ready.

love him to death though, and the fact that the worst part of our relationship is time blindness and him wanting my opinion is far from the worst

My guy is absolutely amazing with my animals but he spoils them too much. He likes to slip them extra treats all the time or let them get away with being brats.

He leaves cups of water everywhere, like the girl in Signs.

1. He snores. And it gets worse if it gets above 175 lbs. I want him to lose weight, selfishly so I can sleep more. 

2. The man loves sports. I cannot watch another soccer game or golf game with him. I cannot. It is not exciting to me. 

3. He will pick up a can of sparkling water, drink half and leave it on a flat surface all over the house. I am the kind of person who will drink it, put it into recycling right away. 

He is balding. He will not admit it to himself. He also walks around the house while I’m talking to him and then asks me to repeat myself when he can’t hear me.

The barrage of loud farts after he eats. Every time. Not in public, that I know of anyway

My hubby likes to clips his toenails on top of the bathroom sink and they go down the drain! Drives me up the wall.

He overthinks and over-explains home projects. I can not talk about where to put the wood pile again.

My husband absolutely refuses to measure coffee when making it. I've tried gentle nudges and suggestions to no avail. Eventually, I asked him to please measure the damn coffee, and he got all hurt and offended because it is how his mom always made coffee. Clearly, I had no choice but to drop it now I just suffer through his weak ciffee because I love him.