All of you Married folks out there!

[Twisterdog]

Mine with him is his complete inability to throw anything out because he might need it someday; he might be able to build something with it; he can come up with 100 excuses for keeping junk!! He goes to the dump and comes home with almost as much stuff as he left with! Now that his shop is finished, he can keep all his treasures out there! He's going to be gone all summer/fall. That will give me a chance to take any remaining junk in the house to the SalyAnn!

LOL! My dad and my husband are both like that. My dad has literally gone through my garbage cans when he comes to visit to see if I "might have thrown anything good out." OMG!

They will both keep bent nails, broken hinges, scraps of wood too small to make a domino out of, etc. etc. ... "Might come in handy someday." As if they ever remember where, or what, it is when they might need it eight years from now.

Did you ask him to set the table?

In all fairness, people aren't mind readers - and don't say "he should know better" - like I said, he's not a mind reader.

Well, I don't know about CritterCrazy and her hubby in this situation, but if it were me and my DH (which it's not, he's actually very helpful about things like that), I would have to say .... as an adult, one doesn't have to be a mind reader to know that tables have to be set, that children have to eat, that dinner doesn't magically cook itself. Common sense ... I think the fact that the rest of the family has to eat, too, is a total no-brainer that anyone should know. Just MHO ...

[Husky_mom]

oh boy oh boy..........gotta make time to write it up.........

I´m not perfect either......I´m messy, lazy and whatnot.......but one thing that really gets on my nerves.......is my hubby´s temper, besides the not listening thing (why do they have such a short attention span, I believe puppies have more than they do :P) and a much much more that almost everytime gets me (I tend to also stock thing up until I can no longer contain it) is what he claims as his "privacy".......I understand we all need our own private stuff but what bothers me is that some of that includes women.....(work stuff and that) but still I know nothing about them and him claiming private just gets me and BAD!!......how could I not, I mean I trust him but that I consider should not be "private" unless you want me to think otherwise that just "work" you know.........and to top it all, that he gets mad at me for snooping on his stuff......(I also understand the madness about that but not on the subject of othe women)......

I have my own private stuff but that does not inlcude men, and every men I met he knows and that inlcludes their intentions and that I mark my line.....I´M MARRIED YOU KNOW!! and he for not being rude might let them think he´s fair game!!......I HATE THAT!!! the most!!!

I can go on a bit more but boss is here........b back later.......arrrgggg MEN!!

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Let me start off by saying that of course Eric's good traits outweigh his bad- or I wouldn't have married him!

That being said, there are things that really annoy me about him. First of all, he is TERRIBLE with money. Awful, and it drives me crazy. He always desires something expensive that I couldn't care less about. He always claims he will "save" for it (he can't save a dime to save his life) but then finds some "deal" that he can't pass up so he'll spend the rest of his paycheck on it. His latest is a projector that he bought this weekend. But, I know I spend money on other things, I like to travel a lot and go home to see my family, and I have the vacation time to it, when sadly he doesn't. So it evens out...I don't care too much as long as we always have enough to pay the essentials.

Another thing that really bugs me is how much he worries about his health. I'm not advocating that he ignore things, but he makes thing worse by obsessing over them too much. Then, if I dismiss his concerns, I'm insensitive, so I just listen but try to focus on the positive.

I know there's a lot of other things that bother me, but those are the most annoying to me. I'm sure I have tons of annoying habits, too.

[Sophist]

Eep!


Well, as a newlywed and a super-difficult person to live with, I am not going to join in here.

In addition, I have made a resolution not to bad-mouth my husband publicly. It is always a little scary to me how when groups of women get together, it so very often deteriorates into a b****-session about their men. If it bothers me, I write about it or tell him, but I will not trash him to my mom, sisters, friends, coworkers, etc. Been doing this for several years now (back when we were just best friends and dating) and so far it works very well. It may be hopelessly naive to think I can sustain it forever, but so far it works.

In fact, I always try to throw in something nice and random about him when the sessions start up. Finding a way to compliment him to others and having them all tell me what a wonderful thing it is has really helped me several times when I was beginning to take him for granted, or was just being pouty.

So, with this resolution in mind--- it is crazy what a fabulous baker my husband is. Cheesecake, coffeecake, shortbread and lemon squares are what I have him make the most often (yes, he takes requests). He even made our wedding cake, and everyone said it was fabulous. I was too sick with the viral flu to have any, so when I was finally well enough to go back to work, he worked like a mad man the whole nine hours (and had done prep work before while I was too sick and tired to notice) and re-created it for me, so I could enjoy some of my wedding cake (well, as close to it as I could get, lol).

And trust me, if you had ever tasted this man's cheesecake, you would have been willing to marry him, too!

[catland]

Cheesecake? you are lucky.

I'm lucky too. My husband is very handy - he can do electrical work, plumbing, sheetrock, you name it. We've spend very little $$'s on home repairs over the years because he can do it himself.