‘What completely innocent but infuriating thing does your better half regularly do?’ – 25 people who accidentally drive their partners up the wall

Having a partner is great, right? Somebody to care for you, to be there for you, to generally lighten the load of life. And also to annoy the hell out of you without meaning to.

They’ve been discussing how bloody irritating the people we profess to love can be on the AskUK subreddit after PaddedValls posted this:

What completely innocent, but mildly infuriating thing does your better half regularly do?

My wife will continue to wash bowls and leave them upright rather than upside down to dry. I have explained several times why it’s optimal to turn the bowl upside down to dry, but she continues to do the opposite when it’s her turn on the dishes.

Is it a major issue? No. Does it baffle me? Yes God I love her… but ffs.

And lots of people chipped in with the strange and maddening things their own partners do, like these…

1.

‘Doesn’t grasp how not flattening things before putting them in the recycle bin causes it to not hold as much.’
–grepusman

2.

‘Not a big deal really but leaving every fucking light on. I’m sure I do things which are far more annoying however.’
–CrossCityLine

3.

‘Leave the toilet roll cardboard on top of the toilet.’
–good_as_golden

4.

‘I’ve got the opposite gripe – my husband always puts it in the bin instead of bringing it downstairs to recycle! I’m forever fishing them out of the bathroom bins.’
–illbepedro

5.

‘He calls ‘poppadoms’ POMPADOMS. Stop that pls love.’
–Jaded_Valuable439

6.

‘Main one is farting. We have to walk up two flights of stairs to bed, he waits until he is in the bedroom and farts so heavily it reeks for hours. He had ample opportunity on the way up. That riles me to no end.’
–melanie110

7.

‘My dad was in ITU with Covid. Very unwell. I visited him with my daughter one evening. Before we left one night, he grabbed my hand and said he was worried about something and could I help him?

Me, thinking it was last messages to my mum, sister or grandkids, asked whats wrong. He said, your mum has a habit of turning the thermostat to 21. When you get back, put it back down to 19 will you?’
–Fair-Scholar-4677

8.

‘Buys Tesco guacamole inspired topping.

It’s a guacamole with only 3.5% avocado, meaning it can’t really be called guacamole and is instead guacamole ‘inspired’, if we are stretching the definition of inspired.’
–ifyouliketogamble

9.

‘My wife closes doors without pushing the handle down first so they always go ‘cu-clunk’ instead of just silently closing.’
–sbdbst

10.

‘Decides to offload daily stresses just as I’m trying to go to sleep. They feel better for the offload and go to sleep, I stay awake, now stressed.’
–Early_Tree_8671

11.

‘Leaving dirty plates and mugs in the sink and thereby preventing washing anything without taking them out of the sink first.’
–GetNooted

12.

‘I see this and I raise you – putting dirty plates in the sink even though the dish washer is empty.’
–LJ161

13.

‘My husband hangs out wet washing as if they’ve been fired from a cannon at the back door and pegged on the line however they land.’
–Ok-Football6675

14.

‘He is so helpful, and so house trained, and such a sweetheart, but Jesus Christ, when he doesn’t clear out the vegetable drawers in the fridge when he puts the shopping away and I come across old vegetables / bendy celery / mouldy carrots, I start to understand why some women kill their husbands.’
–crgoodw