What Bugs You About Your Spouse?

When you first started dating, his snoring was absolutely adorable. Cut to 10 years later, and you want to ram a pillow up his nose. Or maybe he squeezes the toothpaste tube in the middle, and you've asked him 50 times to pleasefortheloveofbabyJesussqueezefromthebottom! Deep breath, ladies. Everyone has his or her faults, but we still love our partners. Though sometimes it's carthartic (and fun) to gripe. So, Daphne Brogdon of Cool Mom asks our panelists, "What bothers you about your significant other?"

What bugs you about your partner? Share the most annoying, tear-out-your-hair habit of your husband or wife (you'll feel better afterwards). Read the guy's side of things on our blog with "A Guy's Turn," by Jason Mayo of Out-Numbered.

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Blissful Dork
2 yearss ago

What bugs me... Hmm. Well, all of you have pretty much named them all which lets me know, I'm normal!! Yay!! But theres one still. I write... alot. I love pens and notebooks. So whenever I have one open he picks it up and reads the last page it's on, like he owns it. I don't mind. Its just God forbid I pick up his phone to read tie time!?! Lol. He's wroking on it though. I mean, I can actually touch his things now where as before I couldn't at all.

geminimcm
2 yearss ago

This is great - love the topic. For me, it is him leaving stuff EVERYwhere! And I am the complete opposite in that I am SUPER organized and obsessed with everything in it's place at all times (I'm kind of OCD, but not clinically). But yeah, he will take off clothes and just throw them on the floor in a pile, and I have to put things away. Annoying! Also, the smoking! Yes, I knew he did it since the day we started seeing each other, but it drives me NUTS now. I never "got used to it," and although he doesn't do it often around me, it makes me crazy the few times he does. I have never smoked and I hate everything about it. He stinks! Another thing...his obsession with all things car-related and on wheels. He will buy a million different parts for his "fixer-upper" car and then they just sit in the garage for YEARS without being put on the car!!!! Ugh!!!! Money down the drain, in my opinion. Granted, he does find things only on sale or really good deals, but still...

mommainthefog
3 yearss ago

denise karis
3 yearss ago

oh no. How about what do you LOVE about your spouse? This totally takes me back to when I was 18 and married. All my girlfriends bitching about their spouse non stop and sooner or later, I joined in. I'd think of horrible things I could say to join in the conversation and after a while, I realized how damaging it was to sit and complain about your spouse. We divorced very shortly after we got married and now I have been with Eric for four years and I absolutely refuse to talk bad about him.

itsabeautyfilledlife
3 yearss ago

THIS. IS. MY. LIFE. EVERY. DAY. Seriously. :-) I made a list too. And apparently, threw it out when I met my husband.

Felicity
3 yearss ago

This is minor, but it gets me everytime. When we go to the movies, he swirls the popcorn around in the bag noisily with every handful. It's so bizarre, and so LOUD! Sometimes I look at him and say, 'Really? Are you serious with that?" and he acts completely clueless as to how loud he's being. Maybe he's secretly waiting for my reaction.

The Not So Dome...
3 yearss ago

What bugs me about my husband? The list could go on and on. I can deal with the backseat driving, the dirty socks all over, even his tendency to hoard things for years. The one thing that I just can not seem to get past is his ability to make the Pokey Puppy look like an Olympic sprinter. The man just can not be on time for anything at all. He was even late for our wedding if you can believe it. I'm a person who is always early for things and feel like I'm late if I'm exactly on time. He's so bad at this that his boss actually has him come in a half hour later than everyone else and he usually is still ten minutes late! I just don't get it, I really don't.

candicmt
3 yearss ago

One of the biggest things that my hubby does is that when he is brushing his teeth he pushes the tooth brush sooo far into the back of his throat that he gags, yes I said he gags himself. This is what I have to wake up to, the sounds of gagging. Fun!

childandcrazy
3 yearss ago

I could live with gagging. It must be better than the sound of not whistling whistling. Its kind of like the sound of one hand clapping. Ha ha. Thank god for my sense of humour. Without it I may totally go mad.

childandcrazy
3 yearss ago

What doesn't? Oh my god. Eating with his mouth open, food noises smacking in surround sound. Huffing & puffing while dressing to get ready for work. Whistling without noise just a "shhhhhssshhshshsh" sound coming out, the 30 minutes he sits in the bathroom reading the paper while the kids go bereft on the house, leaving shaving residue in the sink, his job is to empty & load the dishwasher - but he never does it. That he isn't handy AT ALL. That he still asks me everytime he has to use the microwave "how long does this need?" That he can't go to the shop with a list & come back with everything on it, that he calls me from the shops everytime he goes to ask "which isle is this in?". That he can't cook - not even 1 kind of meal, that he doesn't know how to use the video camera, that he doesn't know how to use the washing machine. That he zones out watching TV then wonders what all the crying is about because one of the girls has hurt themselves when he is supposed to be watching them, not the television. That he's never bought my children a birthday or christmas present EVER. That his argument is that he came from a Latin family where his mother did everything for him & that it was traditionally the way he expected his marriage to be. My answer to that: Number 1 - I'm not your mother Number 2 - this isn't a traditionally Latin family & Number 3 - You're not my child, you're the father of my children & if you don't know at 4 & 3 what isle the kids health food is in, then you're not doing your job as a dad. It's no wonder I'm going out of my mind. One Christmas, when my daughter was 2 I was out the back putting together the cubbyhouse with my dad. He was inside watching some naff Xmas movie he'd seen abou a thousand times. When I went inside he looked up at me from the TV & said "oh you gotta see this bit, its so funny!" and I was like "are you going to have any involvement in your childs excitement or are you going to just lie there & watch this you've seen a thousand times?" He was like "oh you do it, you're better at that stuff than me anyway." He complains he misses so much, but then he does this? WTF? He has no interest whatsoever. Any suggestions?

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