Things your wife does that drives you bonkers

[slattimer]

One other pet peeve that drives me bonkers. My wife and I both have apple watches. I'll text her something and very rarely get any response for awhile. Especially if it's of some sort of importance that I need an answer on. You literally have the alert, right there in front of you, you look at it immediately, I watch you do it....but don't respond. Like hey, I need your DL # so I can finish file our taxes.... But then she'll send me a text, and if I don't respond soon, I get a follow up text "??????"

 

[BluesBucksNHuskers]

This thread has been very therapeutic so I’m adding another from a scolding I got last night.

I’m going out shed hunting, I leave my phone in the truck. I get back to the truck and there’s 8 text messages;

Hey what do you want for dinner?
Hello???
Omg did you not take your phone with you again?
Unbelievable
I guess you can just pick something up…
???
etc.

I get back, “You know how unsafe it is to go out in the woods like that without your phone!?” Then I continue the cycle of the exact same fight we’ve had 500 times, “Weird, people seemed to survive before phones fit in pockets”

1. When I didn’t answer the first text, why did you think 7 more would make me think, “You know what, maybe I should go check my phone?”

2. We’ve already had a stalemate on this same fight 500 times, I know I’m a stubborn asshole about it but we also had this fight before we were married. So when you said “I do” you said “You know what, I know you have some quirky shit you do but here’s the moment I accept those”.

When I go out in the woods or to the lake, I like to unplug, she always acts like I’m risking my life every time.

 

[Pipe Line]

My wife leaves her laundry for weeks at a time, granted she owns a lot of clothes. Will do it on a Sunday. I might be finishing mine on a Sunday morning or whatever, I do it weekly. Will get legitimately pissed off at me because I was in her way of doing laundry.....maybe don't wait 3 weeks next time.

 

[betsch]

One other pet peeve that drives me bonkers. My wife and I both have apple watches. I'll text her something and very rarely get any response for awhile. Especially if it's of some sort of importance that I need an answer on. You literally have the alert, right there in front of you, you look at it immediately, I watch you do it....but don't respond. Like hey, I need your DL # so I can finish file our taxes.... But then she'll send me a text, and if I don't respond soon, I get a follow up text "??????"

Same thing when I ask my wife for nudes. Crickets. But the second I ask about ANYTHING else there's a response in 0.2 seconds.

 

[Dell Husker]

My wife is incapable of understanding how the car thermostat works. When she gets into my car and is cold, she'll crank up the thermostat on her side to like 82 degrees. When I ask her if she wants the car to be 82 degrees inside, she says "no, i just want it to warm up."

I've tried to explain that if she has it set to 70 it will heat up just as quickly, but instead of continuing to get hot until she's uncomfortable and has to turn it back down, it would just continue heating enough to keep her side at 70 degrees.

You'd think I was trying to explain quantum physics or something.

I have tried explaining to mine how the Auto feature is a thermostat like a house but yet we consistently blow High until it’s unbearable

 

[Pipe Line]

Same thing when I ask my wife for nudes. Crickets. But the second I ask about ANYTHING else there's a response in 0.2 seconds.

Getting nudes from the wife was the good ol days. Great times.

 

[Jim14510]

So you are a swinger?

@Jim14510

Ha! No. Prior to friend groups she would go out with her friends and I'd stay home with kids. No big deal. Maybe ill still be up and sometimes worth my while for staying up.

I go out with my friends. Before I leave:
"When are you going to be home?"
"Not sure, maybe midnight, 1 or so."
"Do you really have to stay out so late? I have to get up early."
"What does you having to get up early have to do with what time I get home?"
"I can't sleep until you're home."
"OK whatever. I'll probably be home around 12-12:30."

11:00 text - "Are you on your way home yet?"
"No"
"I thought you were going to be home early?"
"I didn't say that."
"I'm really tired can you just come home."
*Rage starts to build.*
"I'll be home in an hour or so."
"Blah blah blah"
*Stop reading texts. Get home at 12:30. Attempt to go to sleep. Inevitably end up fighting for 2 hours because I'm so inconsiderate and 15-20 minutes into the fight say something that makes it worse because I'm flaming fucking pissed by that point.

Now go out with common friends. Most of the time get drunk sex (with wife at home). Everyone happy.

 

[Cash68847]

My wife leaves her laundry for weeks at a time, granted she owns a lot of clothes. Will do it on a Sunday. I might be finishing mine on a Sunday morning or whatever, I do it weekly. Will get legitimately pissed off at me because I was in her way of doing laundry.....maybe don't wait 3 weeks next time.

It will only get worse with the more kids you have.

 

[Pipe Line]

It will only get worse with the more kids you have.

We’re planning 1 more for sure. Soon to be 1 year olds Laundry Is twice a week right now

 

[HuskerGarrett]

My wife is incapable of understanding how the car thermostat works. When she gets into my car and is cold, she'll crank up the thermostat on her side to like 82 degrees. When I ask her if she wants the car to be 82 degrees inside, she says "no, i just want it to warm up."

I've tried to explain that if she has it set to 70 it will heat up just as quickly, but instead of continuing to get hot until she's uncomfortable and has to turn it back down, it would just continue heating enough to keep her side at 70 degrees.

You'd think I was trying to explain quantum physics or something.

My wife does the same thing but with the thermostat at home. The thermostat will be set to 70 on heat, the house will be at 72 and she will say something like "turn the heat down a little" thinking that will make it colder, and I have to explain every single time that nothing will happen in that scenario because nothing is running. I don't know why it's such a difficult concept.

 

[huskermack]

My wife does the same thing but with the thermostat at home. The thermostat will be set to 70 on heat, the house will be at 72 and she will say something like "turn the heat down a little" thinking that will make it colder, and I have to explain every single time that nothing will happen in that scenario because nothing is running. I don't know why it's such a difficult concept.

Holy smokes, we'd die if it were 70 in our house.
We keep the thermostat at 62.

 

[Cash68847]

My wife does the same thing but with the thermostat at home. The thermostat will be set to 70 on heat, the house will be at 72 and she will say something like "turn the heat down a little" thinking that will make it colder, and I have to explain every single time that nothing will happen in that scenario because nothing is running. I don't know why it's such a difficult concept.

I’ve told my wife one day she will walk in and there will be a lock box over the thermostat.

 

[Alum-Ni]

Holy smokes, we'd die if it were 70 in our house.
We keep the thermostat at 62.

68 in winter
78 in the summer

 

[BBTown Bomber]

68 in winter
78 in the summer

This would never fly in my home.

More like:
72
74

.

 

[Walter Sobchak]

68 in winter
78 in the summer

65-68 year round in the Sobchak house. Im a fat, and hate the heat

 

[SoCal_Corn]

What wife?

 

[dsbigred1]

What wife?

 

[Baron Winnebago]

What wife?

Life partner works too

 

[Baron Winnebago]

We're moving right now and she's playing the passive aggression of the Christ as if she doesn't remember I moved our entire house by myself summer 2020

 

[dsbigred1]

We're moving right now and she's playing the passive aggression of the Christ as if she doesn't remember I moved our entire house by myself summer 2020

Yikes… one thing I learned to do with my wife was to separate the expected responsibilities with things, especially major things like that. We went through a pre-marital course that talked about dividing the responsibilities and what was expected of each other. My list is so much longer than hers it isn’t funny, and I make sure to emphasize the things I have done and the things she hasn’t. Not to rub it I her face, but only to be confident that I can tell her to shut the fuck up and not feel bad about it.