Does anyone else's wife have a particularly annoying habit that really gets you wound up?
As an example, my wife won't bother to say much to me most of the time, but the instant I put my headphones on she immediately feels the need to
have a long and involved conversation with me. She can see that I've got the headphones on, but she still keeps talking and gets annoyed when I
don't pay any attention.
The same happens when I open a book and settle in for a good read. She then gets irate because I'm not listening to whatever she's
prattling on about (I really do get deeply involved when reading!).
When I haven't got the headphones on, or I'm not reading, she's got nothing she considers important enough to discuss with me...
Not that the lockdown is getting to us... no, no, no, not at all...
mine used to get the hoover out if i dared want to watch F1 (when it was worth watching) on the telly, she had the rest of the week to do that but it
had to be sunday afternoons.
I should add that I do love her, but she does these things that really wind me up... but, after all, we have been married since 1973 so maybe this
isn't a major problem! 
I am also absolutely certain that I do things that massively annoy her as well!
[Edited on 28/1/21 by David Jenkins]
My wife keeps leaving the toilet seat down.
Well one thing you can be sure of - it is your fault not hers 
Joking aside. Lockdown has been very hard on marriages and breakups in the last year have sky rocketed. So she may be feeling down and lonely.
I've deliberately spent more time with my wife than ever and we always make time to sit down and watch a series on tv together every evening
(been watching Lost), going as a family to parks and walks, going for a meal when permitted (without the kids). Plus she regularly has mums nights on
video chat with her friends while they natter over a beer their trash tv shows I refuse to watch.
As my dad's always said. If there's issues don't ignore them and never take marriage for granted. These may just be the early warning
signs. I say this after two of our close friends have both ended their marriages and both said the same thing, that they'd stopped communicating
with their partners. Kinda sad really.
[Edited on 28/1/21 by Mr Whippy]
David
I know what you mean! mine says the most ridiculous stuff, it isnt even funny any more
two days ago, I had to take a Paracetomol, and she asks why ? and i say ive got a headache, and she says were ?
apparently the answer is not, in my f ing left foot !! well thats what i said !
It actually caused an argument, about were a headache in your HEAD means,
So i pretended to take another Paracetomol, and said ive taken another, because my headache is much worse now, and its down to you,
Ive got hundreds of stories, of some of the shyte she has said over the years, yet i get the blame !!
I will try and find the dustbin one, its one of my all time favorites
My wife's foibles are all about timing:
I stay up later than I should, finally decide that I am too tired and really must get to bed, plus having hung on longer than I should, I'm
bursting for the toilet - and that's when she says, "Would you put the washing in the dryer and put another wash on?"
Or, I sit down (I have badly arthritic knees and getting up and down is painful) and a fraction of a second later, she says, "Would you put the
light off?" or "Would you get me a drink?" She doesn't just do it herself, because her joints are even worse!
Almost every time I go shopping she phones me for something else that she has forgotten - just as the shopping is going through the till or even as I
am walking out of the shop.
She's also completely last minutes (or just downright late) whenever she is going anywhere - usually leaving me with the stress of getting us
there, through traffic, against the clock.
You guys all need to Man Up !!! And stand up for yourself
I've never had to do this as I dont have any of these problems as I have always been wrong in all my married years
I know many of you may not be religious but reading the bible may solve all the problems.
I refer you to genesis.
quote:
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and tried to rest on the seventh day from all his work that he had done but woman talketh unceasingly and so God created shed.
And God saw that it was good.
I started reading that and thought "good grief, we have a religious zealot on the forum"... then I read the punchline!
Brilliant...
I put this on another forum, and all the women said "hell yes!".
YES !
My M8 and i for many many years have decided, that Females, are wired up wrong at birth,
there positives and negatives are reversed, its a well known fact,
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Originally posted by steve m
My M8 and i for many many years have decided, that Females, are wired up wrong at birth,
there positives and negatives are reversed, its a well known fact,
"Strangely, women say the same about men! "
How many Women know how to connect car jump leads ??
ive never met on yet who could
I'm not swapping mine - she gets that I like to jump out of planes, she understands that I need more than 3 cars and that a house is only really
good when it has 3 garages and a man cave!
Occasionally I let her down,....
but then I find the pump and all is good again
quote:
Originally posted by steve m
"Strangely, women say the same about men! "
How many Women know how to connect car jump leads ??
ive never met on yet who could
quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
Does anyone else's wife have a particularly annoying habit that really gets you wound up?
As an example, my wife won't bother to say much to me most of the time, but the instant I put my headphones on she immediately feels the need to have a long and involved conversation with me. She can see that I've got the headphones on, but she still keeps talking and gets annoyed when I don't pay any attention.
The same happens when I open a book and settle in for a good read. She then gets irate because I'm not listening to whatever she's prattling on about (I really do get deeply involved when reading!).
When I haven't got the headphones on, or I'm not reading, she's got nothing she considers important enough to discuss with me...
Not that the lockdown is getting to us... no, no, no, not at all...
I’m single again..............
It’s going really well
After being married for 48 years I'm not sure I could cope with being single!
The answer to this is a really Good workshop.. nice heater, tv with dvd, beer fridge..
Sometimes I do actually do some work on cars in mine...
having recently separated from the wife (her choice!) I cant say I miss the moaning and not knowing what your coming home too!
I can now spend as much as i like on the car without having to negotiate or ask permission! Highly recommended!
Big bugbear of mine is asking questions whilst watching a film.... I'm the sort of person who likes to settle down, drink and nibbles to hand,
and enjoy a movie. Wife decided within 10mins if she likes the look of it, and if not, will play on her phone/tablet (occasionally asking questions
about the film shoes not watching).
Having said that, she's also the sort of person that will get underneath my Defender in the workshop on Christmas Eve eve and held fit bolts
because my ham fists won't fit in the gaps properly. And can identify most car parts. And is learning to sail (not to mention allowing me to
have multiple man-toys).
Swings and roundabouts, really! If you had told me last March that we'd be stuck together in the house working almost 24/7, I'd have
thought there's be a new patio being laid with a bump in the middle, but just so happens we're doing OK!
For the faults my wife has, (i have a couple )
Shes a pretty good cook, keeps the house clean and tidy, shes a good Mum, and Nanny,
and as long as the bills are all paid, and we dont owe any money, and we dont! i am allowed to buy what ever i want hence a few RC planes have
appeared in the garage, and she is fine
Also, since March 18 last year when i last worked, both of us have had down periods, but both of us are sensible enough to know, that when some one
needs space, leave them alone, !!
We havent argued in years, well theres no point, as she has to have the last word, so i always say at the end, "and you have to say the last
words"
and she says "no i dont" hahahaha
i zip my lips up, and go mute for the rest of the day, and it drives her nutty
steve
When it comes to movie watching, the one that always gets me is where she chooses some movie or other and it's probably not what I would have
chosen but it's not terrible. Then we watch it for 75 mins at which point she decides to go to bed with maybe 25 mins of the movie remaining! I
watch the end because...why wouldn't you, and I let the dogs out, put the cats through in the utility room, lock up, tidy the kitchen and finally
get to my bed about an hour later by which time she's fast asleep. Then in the morning I get grief because I lie in my bed for an extra hour!
Ha Ha,
I normally get grief for not clearing up the garden dog waste on each Friday after not clearing it during the week, I get up and go out to work each
day by 05.45 ( it's still dark) and get home around 17.00 (it's dark again) so I try and do it at the weekend when I can actually see it
!!
I also have to clear up the kitchen each night before she gets up. when she cooks, although, when i cook, i still get asked to clear up, and put out
all the recycling from wherever it's been dropped throughout the house.
When i get up first, I always make her a cup of coffee, let the dogs out, feed them and the cat. When she gets up first, i get woken up by the dogs,
to let them out and feed them, oh and I don't get a coffee made for me, ever. Apparently making my coffee is too fiddly, half a cup of milk,
micro waved for 1 min 30 secs, then add a shot of coffee plus two sweeteners !!! compared to her, plain black coffee 
It's the life of a married man, I know I'm wrong for breathing.
Ahhhh you guys are great advertisements for remaining single!
I have literally given up with the TV in our house. I am basically not allowed to watch what I want, if I do watch what I want she huffs and puffs
so much I'm worried the house will get blown in.
My missus watches the most awful programs ever. Trash telly, endless detective crap, mindless american programs that are seemingly designed to pass
the time. I can't bare it.
I watched the new episode of battlebots tonight - freaking awesome!!!! (on my phone whilst she watched.......Death in Paradise)
Irony
welcome to my world !!
I havent watched any mainstream TV in years, i watch sport, F! some discovery progs, and thats pretty well it, i dont even turn the TV on now, , yet
Wifey has it on, from awake up to bedtime, unless shes moaning or doing housework
I have a smallish combined monitor/TV on the side of my desk - normally it serves as a display for my one and only Windows machine that's kept
for those occasions when I can only get software that runs on Windoze. However, if my wife's watching something dreadful I can watch something
else more interesting on a TV channel.
Saves arguments!
All of these disputes can be amicably resolved by utilising the PITFA methodology (punch in the face) as originally perfected by neolithic man.
I had 100% success with this but was unable to continue practicing after I left prison as by which point she had left me.
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
I have a smallish combined monitor/TV on the side of my desk - normally it serves as a display for my one and only Windows machine that's kept for those occasions when I can only get software that runs on Windoze. However, if my wife's watching something dreadful I can watch something else more interesting on a TV channel.
Saves arguments!