How does your significant other drive you crazy?

[lisa_marie]

it's not him, it's his OCD that gets to me...apparently, I am not on his level when it comes to the "cleanliness" of things, or putting things back where they belong.

What drives me nuts, is that we have 2 children, one who is 3 and the other is 8mths old.

He tells me he wishes I was like Bree on Desperate Housewives. I'm beginning to think he's not dealing with a full deck of cards...if ya know what i mean.

Other than all of this, why should I complain? I'm a SAHM, and I am free to do what I love..Read and Write..

[Autumnlyn]

Tries to start a conversation every time I log on to SKMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[titansfan]

OK this is all i have to say on this topic...

I love my husband very much, we have been together for 5 1/2 years been married for almost 3 years. We drive each other nuts from time to time, we have had our fare share of fights.. But here is the reason why..

We are both Leo's..... Enough said.... LOL We are both hard headed and neither like to give an inch.

[Anton177]

Well this isn't my significant other, it's the husband of the family who I'm living with at the minute, but I figure it relates close enough to this topic...

Basically I left the UK at the end of February to live with my friend, his mother and her new husband over here in Cyprus. My friend and I are in a guitar duo act where we both play cover songs as he sings, and we've been trying to make cash that way rather than getting an obligatory bar job since this area is mostly purely tourist dependant.

The situation right now is that he bust a gut earlier telling us we were abusing the house and generally being an inconvenience to his living arrangement. Let's paint you a further picture. He lost his job a year ago, a job I might where he worked with his father (daddy's boy, eh?), and has refused adamantly to get a job since. He has paid for the house, and therefore thinks his job is done. His wife, my friend's mother, does not work during the winter and all the strain is on her to bring in the money and pay for everything, and since she still hasn't been able to get back to work again things are a bit tight. My friend lived with me for a year, and so I pay his mother the amount he paid mine while he lived with us, so it's a fair contribution. The husband will go out and spend her money most of every weeknight and weekend to get himself plastered while she works around the house and keeps everything running. This past week she has went back over to England to see her grandson and this is where the problems kick in.

He has been yelling down the phone to her not 2 hours ago telling her enough is enough and we're driving him crazy, saying how we disrespect the house and we're up all hours of the night cooking, and we are constantly blasting music. Let's state some unbiased facts of the week:

• Every time we have practiced this week, i.e. "MUSIC ALWAYS RAR RAR RAR" he has been out of the house drinking, apart from two occassions where we played quietly and turned down when asked to do so.
• I use a laptop, and I generally spend my days being on the laptop or reading. Even if I wanted to make noise through this, I couldn't with laptop speakers, and reading isn't a very intrusive pastime. Whenever I play guitar by myself, it is certainly quiet enough to not disturb people.
• I sleep from around 10/11pm-8/9am and do not cook in the hours between, unless I do so in my sleep. There was one occasion I made a hot chocolate at 5am. I've been having nightmares again and for anyone who has had to deal with them on a regular, disturbing basis, it is not a very pleasant thing to deal with.
• He complained there is no food left in the house. One day he cooked an entire chicken and ate it himself for a snack. He then made another meal before sleeping at 7pm until 11am.
• When the water supply in the house had expired, I put a bottle at the back of the fridge hidden so we had at least some water left. He took it up to his room and drank it alone, like he will everytime I fill up the 3 bottles in the fridge.
• He will eat upstairs and bring plates down into the sink. A dishwasher is 2 inches away from the sink, yet they will always go in the sink. My friend and I are the ones who cook and clean the kitchen, including cleaning his plates and misc. utensils and fill/empty the dishwasher. When we told him to put dishes in the dishwasher while he was shouting at us, he flipped.
• When I went for a shower, I saw he had somehow managed to sh!t on the toilet seat, the bathroom floor, and the bed. I'm sorry, but that's... inhuman.
• When we make meals, the leftovers are almost certainly devoured by the end of the night by you-know-who, and he complains there is no food left.
• He spends all day either drinking with his wife's money, sleeping, or watching crime shows in his room... or leaving the computer on to finish the illegal downloads.

Those are all unbiased facts. I'm not trying to add petrol to the flames, I just don't want to be perceived and yelled at without having a fair say, and that's not even including my opinions.

I feel like I am a burden and I should just go home. While he was shouting earlier after this week of trying to put up with all his sh!t (quite literally) I did my best to keep my cool. I have quite a temper, and it was almost an heroic effort not to punch the selfish, officious ****, let alone give my side of the story. I would love to say or do something but I feel like I'd just get kicked out of the house, and since I have no money due to paying rent to his mother it's not a great situation. Right now I can hear his homeless friend sleeping downstairs on the couch screaming in his sleep, while he snores endlessly.

I feel like I am in a complete dilemma and I'm not sure if I can keep my cool again and I don't want to get in a fight and be in a real bitch of a situation. Sorry for the extravagant post, but I needed to cool down before our gig later instead of going into the room and throwing punches.

Ah... the joys of life.

[terribilini]

how does she drive me crazy? well, she puts a steering wheel on my back and we jump on the freeway where she speeds, never uses her damn blinkers and completely disregards the check engine light. yeah, you could say my wife drives me pretty crazy alright. you know how i drive her crazy? i say stupid things like i've done here that no one in the world thinks are funny except for me. hey, is it my fault she married an idiot?

[BILLY]

MY GIRL/ GRINDS HER TEETH ......... when see sleeps,, its like going to the dentest every night.,,,,,,,, man O man,,,,,like scraching a chaulk bord,,,,,,,,,, yea I DO LOAD THE DISHWASHER, with out the pre wash,,,,,, sometimes.