How does your significant other drive you crazy?

[LadyPain]

I know there are days when you want to throttle each other. What is the hot button that will get you frustrated to the point where you are flipping your sweetheart your middle finger? Here's the place to spill your guts and vent that frustration. No judgemental attitudes please. This is so we can retain what little we have left of our sanity!

I am expected to make coffee every morning. I don't even drink it in the morning. I drink tea.

No good morning, how did you sleep... Nothing. Just, when is the coffee going to be made....

I'm feeling that frustration today!

What about you? Is it your sweetheart or your kids? How 'bout your boss?

[Lizard slushie]

My husband has this habit of calling me at exactly the wrong time, I'll have my hands full and can't get to the phone, and he will just keep calling back. It drives me insane. It's not his fault that I can't get to the phone but just give me a sec, I'll call you back geez.

My kids, oh those little girls have to argue with everything I say, doesn't matter what I tell them I hear "Well, but. . . " AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

5000 miles and 8 time zones.

Long days and pleasant nights

[AngelZ]

I know there are days when you want to throttle each other. What is the hot button that will get you frustrated to the point where you are flipping your sweetheart your middle finger? Here's the place to spill your guts and vent that frustration. No judgemental attitudes please. This is so we can retain what little we have left of our sanity!

I am expected to make coffee every morning. I don't even drink it in the morning. I drink tea.

No good morning, how did you sleep... Nothing. Just, when is the coffee going to be made....

I'm feeling that frustration today!

What about you? Is it your sweetheart or your kids? How 'bout your boss?

I was just having that kind of day myself!

Rules don't apply to him, just everyone else.

He reminds me of that childhood poem by Henry Wasworth Longfellow:

There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead;
And when she was good
She was very, very good,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

Funny, he's got no middle ground. It is black and white with him. When he gets angry, the house will be quiet for a long time, sometimes even days...

[BlackEye]

Yes. I won't expand.

[interplanetjanet]

Dental floss everywhere but in the garbage.

[poisonbat]

I guess the one thing that really gets me with my husband is that he drops his dirty clothes in front of the hamper. I mean move over 2 inches and it would be inside. WTF? The second thing that gets me is that he and I will discuss something important and come up with a plan, but the next day when I talk to him about what I have done, he has changed his mind and not said anything to me about it. He is wishy washy and I hate that.

[Todash]

There used to be things that made me want to strangle him ... but he's stopped doing them. Wow. I didn't realize that until just now.

He does do things that annoy me mildly, though. Here is a list.

1. I'm expected to keep iced tea made at all times, though I drink little of it.
2. In every car we have ever owned, the door light gets repeatedly turned off so that it doesn't come on when you open the door. He refuses to admit it's him doing it.
3. He doesn't realize that a person convinced against his or her will is not convinced.
4. Any time I have purchased Durkee fried onions (for green bean casserole or whatever), he opens them and snacks on them. Then I have to get another can for the casserole. He does this even though I buy maybe two cans a year, so clearly he is aware that I bought the can for a reason. It's a well-worn path. Some day I will just remember to get two cans and hide one.
5. Same thing with cream.
6. He runs the car all the way to E. He's getting better about this, though.

[brownmouse]

Well, I love my guy (as I'm sure you do too Lady pain) BUT-

He loves to buy grocery items in bulk and then leave them out for me to find a place to put them ( we have very limited storage)

He thinks cleaning the kitchen means loading the dishwasher (not wiping counters or stove tops or cleaning the sink and behind the sink)

He can be such a drama-er- king(?)- if we have a spat he automatically thinks we are headed for divorce court-he'll start circling available apartment ads in the newspaper- very loudly -ruffling pages and muttering "Hmmm, that one looks nice" until I tell him to cut it out; we are NOT going to get a divorce over who's turn it was to change the cat litter.

While on road trips he has an overwhelming need to make nonsense comments about everything we drive past-***" Maybe we should buy an RV and live in the parking lot of that outlet mall." *** " I think we should become truck drivers -we could bring the dogs and you could home/truck(?) school Sophie." "***(pass a sheep farm)-"I wanna be a sheep -no wait- llama- farmer" (pass a horse ranch)- "I wish I were a cowboy, no a rodeo clown- yeah a rodeo clown", ( pass a corn field )"We should grow all of our own food, no wait, we should grow organic produce and put up our own stand on the side of the road- and sell Christmas trees in the winter. and ..... "

AND-

Everybody like him. Everybody!! My parents love him way more than me. No kidding. It's common knowledge that he is the good one in the relationship and I am the pain in the arse- HOWEVER they have never been in the car with him for 4 + hours!

[Todash]

He thinks cleaning the kitchen means loading the dishwasher (not wiping counters or stove tops or cleaning the sink and behind the sink)

You mean like this?