Living together has a funny way of revealing quirks about the your partner that you may not have ever paid attention to before. Suddenly, the smallest habits seem….not so small.
“The snooze button addiction. I wake up once. They need a 45-minute orchestral performance of alarms starting at 6am. It is psychological warfare.”
“With an ex-partner: When I say ‘we gotta leave at 8am,’ that means I am locking the door behind me at 8am. For her, it meant she would start the process of leaving at 8am. Said process would vary in length but usually included putting on her shoes, gathering up her keys/phone/purse, putting on her coat, taking off her coat to go to the toilet, putting coat back on, last minute check of makeup, finding her keys/phone/purse again because she misplaced them during the whole coat on/off/toilet/back on/makeup check rigmarole.”
“Leaving bits of food in the sink, all that needs to be done is to lift the drain thing and put in the bin. Oh and not rinsing soap off dishes.”
“They narrate everything they’re doing out loud. Not talking to me, just announcing life. ‘I’m looking for my charger. Okay, now I’m hungry.’ I didn’t even realize it was a thing until we lived together, and now I can’t un-hear it.”
“He blows his nose in the shower and leaves the result sticking to the wall. Yuck.”
“Toast crumbs in the butter. So petty, and yet so annoying.”
“The toilet roll hung the wrong way round. I’m currently getting divorced.”
“Leaving cabinets and drawers half open. I notice every single time now.”
“If he isn’t whistling, he is air drumming.”
“How loud he plays things on his phone. The phone is literally 1 ft in front of his face, there’s no reason for it to be on the highest volume.”
“Picky eater. We’ve been together 28 years. And it’s gotten worse. To the point I refuse to go out to eat with her. Because it’s absolutely mind numbing!”
“Won’t eat leftovers 95% of the time. I always have to finish them. She gets angry when we throw food away but won’t help me eat leftovers. Yet she cooks more than what we both can eat in one sitting. I called her out on it a few days ago. She had no retort.”
“Randomly doing chores in the kitchen while I’m cooking. Our cooktop is on the island and the sink is right across from it. I’ll be cooking and turn around to toss some scraps or put a utensil in the sink and bump into her. Or she’ll decide to unload the dishwasher so I’m having to go the long way around to get to the pantry or refrigerator. CAN YOU JUST NOT?”
“Oh my god, she never shuts up.”
“Clutter makes him borderline anxious and I have ADHD so clutter is just… not there. If I know where everything is, it isn’t clutter to me, but it is to him.”
“Toothpaste residue everywhere. Mirror, sink, faucet. No idea how he does it.”
“Sharing towels. He gets very icked out and uncomfortable.”
“My wife refuses to throw things in the garbage. She acts as if garbage cans do not exist and there’s nothing she can do within her power to deal with things that need to be thrown away.”
“She buys a bag of curly fries and only eats the fries that make ‘at least a full curl.'”
“Hoarder in the making. If I don’t throw things away he never will!”
“Terrible at breaking down boxes and packaging to toss into the recycling after they’re done opening them to access the goods they ordered. They just leave the boxes and packaging to pile up on the dining room table and it falls to me to break them down to toss in recycling. Downright annoying.”
“He acted like he had no concept of bills or that basic bills were due every month. That was fun.”
“Honestly, it’s a bunch of little ones that come down to him not paying attention. We have two cats who love to chew on my clothes. I always ask that my husband keeps the closet door closed so they don’t get in there and destroy my stuff. He forgets at least once per day. Our cats also love to destroy toilet paper rolls, so I request that bathroom/toilet room doors be kept closed so they can’t get in there and shred it. He forgets a lot, too, and we’ve had a lot of toilet paper roll casualties as a result. I could go on and on!”
“Locating where the TV remote becomes a daily adventure, always mysteriously in their favorite hiding spot.”
“Socks are left right next to the designated sock hamper. I have started to getting rid of them as soon as I find them.”
“The way he flosses and eats the sh*t that comes out of his teeth. YUCK.”
“The ordering of the cutlery drawer.”
And finally, “The amount of time it takes to either put on ‘the face’ or take off ‘the face’. It feels like life revolves around ‘the face’ most of the time.”
Can you relate to any of these? Are there more that you would add? Let us know in the comments or in the anonymous form below!
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