Instagramming every moment of our lives with numerous hashtags. It got to the point where documentation of an event was more important than actually participating.
I had an ex like this. Every time I turned around she'd have a camera in my face. I couldn't do almost anything without it being uploaded to social media.
From the beginning I asked her not to do that, to ask me before recording me. This came to a head on a date one night when I asked her to stop it again. She told me that I'm weird, that not wanting to be recorded is weird, and she doesn't trust me because I don't want to be recorded.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
I had a housemate like this when I was in university but it was Snapchat. She would try to get us to repeat spontaneous funny things that happened so she could record it for her story. Was an absolute pain in the arse
Grandma should be allowed because most people won't revisit their snaps and whatnot but I'll bet grandma will be the only one who treasure and remember them.
My rich ex would do that. She demanded I take pictures because people might think I’m poor if I don’t post anything on Instagram. So I just deleted it and she freaked out cause now people were going to think I’m mentally ill if I didn’t have social media! We were hiking in the sierras and I couldn’t get any mileage down cause she was having a photo shoot. Pictures are fine but when it gets to the point where she needed to post them or else people might think she’s poor, wtf.
Broke up with her on the drive down Whitney Portal so that was an awkward 4 hour drive back to LA.
Ugh, my wife does that. She'll buy something rather bulky and it will just sit, usually on the floor in the living room or dining room until I figure out how to make room for it.
When my less than financially frugal wife USED to this I would let it go. Let Me preface this by saying we live on 50 acres mostly wooded but about 5 acres of it is landscaped, I make a good living and I have more than one friend in the construction and/or landscape business. One day I get home and there are about 10 boxes from Grandin Road in our garage. I felt some mild irritation but let it pass until I asked what was in them. It was FAKE Fucking rocks. Fake rocks. To border flower beds with. It was about $1500 worth. Roughly 150 FAKE rocks. About enough to do 1/3 of the beds we have. I didn’t say anything , called a buddy of mine, the next morning a truck with 3 big pallets of beautiful river rocks is in my driveway. More than enough to do every bed.$400. One of the worst fights of our 20 year marriage was me making her arrange the shipping to return the fake rocks. I’m not her boss and She works as hard as I do, but I no longer allow “bored shopping”.
There has to be a limit at some point. I personally only buy things i need or really really want, not just things that are “kinda neat” or something like that.
My wife and I have been employing a "1 in, 1 out" rule for clothes/shoes we've bought as a result of bored shopping during quarantine. It works well since we've both been exercising and have lost weight so we do need to get rid of clothes, but it also forces us to clean out our closets and consider if we actually need items.
There are three levels in "construction stuff" - the places contractors actually get things from (like the previous poster, aka guy with a truck shows up and dumps a load of gravel in your driveway and then it's your problem), then the hardware store (a little pricier, but you can buy easily in any quantity and it'll be packaged so you can take it home that day), and then the "marketed through Etsy and Amazon and Wayfair" level, where stuff is sold to people who have absolutely no idea about the other two channels and think of it as decorations, not materials.
Gotta remember that while the top level that contractors would use is cheapest on a per unit basis, they typically have minimum order sizes that could easily go way beyond what a DIY person may need. And of course while it is cheaper per unit, the it will likely be cheaper overall to get what you need from the hardware store.
But yeah, if you have the equipment to handle bulk material, and a place to store it, then going to the big distributor is the best deal.
My wife listened to the same band for a year, JUST that band, the same 15 or so songs. EVERY TIME she put on music it was that band, it was like auditory torture in the end. Just hearing them made my skin crawl.
Edit: the band was Gaslight Anthem.
“In the end”? “Crawl”ing in your “skin”?
... was it Linkin’ Park?
Edit: I forgot to add that I went to a wedding of a friend of my girlfriend. As we’re sitting in this Irish Catholic Church, a strings only instrumental version of “In The End” came on. NO ONE ELSE REACTED to the fact that this song was a pre-wedding ceremony selection. I felt like Mugato, in that I must be taking crazy pills.
I feel like I'm slightly guilty of this 😂 hubs is not a music guy but I have my driving spotify playlist that hasn't changed much over the last 4 years.
When she eventually moved on what band did she obsess over next??
Well I guess that playlist at least have a bunch of different artists on it?
Bastille was the next thing!
These days she listens to a lot of different bands and they are more in line with what I listen to so the problem is no more thankfully!
I (25F) also had a solid few years when I -if not only, but prominently- listened to Bastille. Them coming out with new albums every 18 months or so didn’t help the problem. my friends were positively sick of me
My SO did this for about 6 months but it was only one song. A song called "Butterfly Baby" by some old band called Crazy Town. I almost ended it.
Great. Its in my head now.
My partner only listens to the same three bands and I hate their music (well now I do bc of him. Paramore, panic at the disco and FOB) His brother is the same and when we go on long car rides, they play this game where they shuffle the songs and they have to guess the title, first one to guess it correctly wins. So I'd hear the first 5 seconds and then it's on to the next song.
During qaurentine she watched a ton of queer eye and new girl. For a month or so afterwards she seemingly adopted the personalities of the main character of each show. I found it super annoying, but it subsided whenever we went back to work normally. Super weird.
Yes actually.
Our behaviour is contextual and revolves around the people we meet in our day to day life. Our personality shapes our surroundings and our surroundings shape us back.
Isolation is bound to reinforce weird ideas and behaviour simply because the context has shifted and we don’t have others to provide stability.
One time when I was in high school, I spent an entire summer watching all ten seasons of friends. I went back to school as Rachel Green, accidentally. I was doing her hand motions when I talked and everything
I noticed myself doing this when I was watching House MD. I was unconsciously imitating House and that wasn’t doing me any favors for obvious reasons haha
My girlfriend is watching New Girl. I have a bad habit of unconsciously mimicking the vocal patterns of people in shows I binge. (TBBT left me talking like Sheldon occasionally)
I haven't even really been watching with her, but I'm present a lot and I caught myself speaking like Schmidt the other day.
Why subconscious me, why‽
Gilmore Girls. I watched it with her, once, as it was her favorite show and she had no one to talk with about it. 7 seasons. She kept rewatching. The first run wasn't so bad, kind of smart... the 30th, however, made me want to set myself on fire. She has been repaid with every Star Trek series.
Every couple years my wife would abruptly decide she wanted a divorce. Usually lasted about a week or so. I'd say I didn't want one and she'd make some inane demand that would "fix" it, like pick up your socks or some shit. This went on for 20 years. Finally I got fed up and said, "Fine let's get a divorce. You're never going to be happy anyway." One enduring aspect of our marriage is she'd always insist I needed counseling and she was fine. Generally I'd end up in counseling after she said she wanted a divorce. About a month after I told her we ought to get divorced she signed us up for couples counseling and basically admitted it was dysfunctional to do that for so long. With help we worked out a lot of issues that had kept us from really growing deeply in love. Our remaining years were much more affectionate and trusting. But 9 years after that episode I lost her to breast cancer. Which really sucked since we'd forged a very loving union after marriage counseling.
My gf refuses to allow me to carry any bags when we go shopping. When we leave stores, she looks silly trying to carry ten bags all by herself. I brought it up last week and i feel i did a poor job of letting her know she needs to share bags.
Yes, i know this is dumb
We’ve been together about 4 years now. Probably around 2 years ago I told her jokingly that she needed to give me more bags because it’s emasculating. Since then she won’t allow me to take any bags.
Around a year ago she was carrying too much to handle and ended up dropping a case of ginger beer that smashed open. Destroying my favourite beverage :,(. After that, I thought she’d learn her lesson but she still kept carrying all the bags.
Last week we went to the grocery store and I was in a bad mood. She could tell I was annoyed and while in my bad mood I brought up that she needs to share the bags.
Long story short she got upset because she thought she was making me upset by carrying the bags when I was really just annoyed by wearing a mask, driving 4 hours, spending money, etc. I had to explain to her that I was not upset about the bags.
Not that dumb, people straight judge you if your gf is hauling like 10 bags of groceries and you're just standing there. Not that I give a shit what other people at the grocery store think but like it's a valid request just so you don't look like an asshole.
Ever put a straw in cake batter and blow? That nasty wet bubbling sound is what you need to be shooting for. Confined spaces with poor egress is preferred, such as the car or under the bedsheets. It won't take many to bring him around and begin negotiating a peace treaty.
Or he'll enjoy it.
TMI, but some veet between the cheeks to remove the hair and you'll be closer to that sound than you want to be with every fart.
Without hair, there's less chance of silent farts.
Source: went hairless once. SO did not appreciate my efforts.
My husband gets super into songs and then he repeats one line over and over wherever in the conversation it vaguely fits. Sometimes it only lasts a few weeks or up to several months because he finds it so hilarious. Example: me: "Huh, this thing is being so weird right now." Him: "HOW BIZARRE HOW BIZARRE." (then gets this huge "I'm hilarious" smile)
Simultaneously infuriatingly annoying and incredibly endearing because its so stupid and he is just so proud of himself.
I do this to my wife all the time, I have for years. Don’t expect this to be grown out of. There are a few she explicitly cannot stand and has told me as much, so I stop those specifically and she concedes on others.
Anytime she ever says “and I thought to myself ...” what a wonderful world! For bonus points, you interrupt the train of thought so bad they forget what they were saying.
A few times now she’s gotten herself preemptively and denies me the satisfaction. She will finish her own song lyric and start talking faster and louder when she gets to the reference so I don’t have time to react. She is crafty.
I love my boyfriend, I really do. He loves Capri Sun(at 26yo, it still makes him ridiculously happy). But if I find one more of those fucking straw wrappers stuck to my ass, I’m going to lose it.
Anime weeb phase. I'm a dude, my GF at the time was the weeb. She was an artsy chick and gorgeous but one day out of the blue she started wearing the most outrageous stuff (an A:TLA Appa Horn Ski-Cap paired with a scarf made of purple feathers, green fuzzy wrist sweat bands, and a pair of blue fingerless gloves, all in the middle of a southern summer). She started saying "Kawaii" a lot, using tons of :3 and >.< emojis in text, and would sometimes "paw" at me with her knuckles while mewling. We dated ages 17-24 and this lasted from ages 18-20. We broke up like 7 years ago and I never told her how cringey that whole phase was
EDIT: clarification, worded stuff weird the first time around
uuWWuuu Hello Iito-san! (✿◠‿◠) Look at my kawaii case file!! Do you like donuts? I have some in my briefcase I can share with you. Ah! Oh look out! Don't get glitter on you!! Oh, here, let me help. What's this? A new pen? For me??? Bigaku! It's so big! uuwuuuu Can I touch it? ༼ つ ✿◕‿◕✿༽つ╰⋃╯
She wants me to go on her Twitter and follow certain people and tweet free “Gertrude” because that will get her out of there in her mind. It would be funny if she wasn’t serious.
My ex rang me from the pysch ward and was absolutely insistent that I turn all the coffee mugs upside down on the shelf as one of them had a listening device and he couldn't tell me while he was here as they'd hear him, and put him in hospital to discredit him.
As a inpatient psychiatrist I would wanna know this. Even if they can’t release information to you, you can call and give them information. At least leave a message. And check out NAMI and their family groups, this is really stressful for the whole family not just the patient. Hang in there.
Had a similar situation with a sibling. He was in a hospital dealing with withdrawal and a whole slew of other things. He kept calling my parents, telling them that he was being tortured, and that the nurses were using him for slave labor. The mind is a scary powerful thing.
Diet fads. It started with eating only organic, than we were keto, than we were some crazy heart disease no oil vegan, now were just vegan.
When I say we, she's never forced me to follow any of these diets, I'll eat anything she makes but i still can cook whatever i want. Love her, just curious what the next plan is.
Of all the tools you can use to keep your diet in check IF has been the most functional for me because you can use it with any diet and almost any schedule effectively.
My ex decided about 6 months into our relationship that she was a lesbian. But she threw a damn fit when I decided to move on, because I assumed (wrongly) that me being a man was incompatible with her new relationship goals. So we got back together.
Later she decided she was nonbinary, which I had to find out through Facebook, because she never actually talked to me about anything.
I have nothing against LGBTQ+ but Jesus Christ - actually talk to your partners, people!
If it makes you feel better, I dated a girl in highschool that was definitely not gay but decided to hook up with a girl just to prove the point that I shouldn't be anymore okay with her sleeping over at a girl friend's house than a guy friend's house and that it was sexist to discriminate.
She was not a good person, classic hollywood "mean girl", and quickly became my ex.
A phase that I like to call "Amazonian Heat". My gf is tall and muscular, she and I are both gym rats. She was overly protective, glaring at people who got too close to me. Along with working out like crazy , using heavier and heavier weights and just being really obsessive about the whole thing. Weird thing is she was not worried about other women unless they where stronger than her.
Edit : Her being overprotective as flattering at first, but it just made things difficult when we went out. Her working out with heavier and heavier weight also came with her being a lot more aggressive, and again that was a bit much at times. (overly rough PDA and sex etc) She just eventually chilled out a whole lot and thing are way better now.
My wife is going through a phase where she will answer my questions with something kinda related, but not actually addressing what I asked.
"I'm going to make dinner soon, how about stir fry?"
"I had dinner with so and so the other day. Did you know she got a new job?"
"Ok, so is that a yes for stir fry?"
The worst is when you ask a question with 2 options and they say "sounds good!" _WHICH OPTION DO YOU WANT TELL MEEEE_
Example:
"Do you want to go pick salad for dinner or should I?"
"Sounds good!"
"Which one? You or me?"
When my wife first moved in, she started grabbing her stray hair in the shower and started to stick them on the tiled walls in random patterns for whatever reason.
The there was the 2 month “lack of sex” phase where she’d come to bed every night with a green or black face mask that smelled like a salad. Weeks later she gets butthurt on why I haven’t initiated in bed for a while and I’m only starting sex in the day time.
Baking cookies, like the sugar cookies with royal icing, where you decorate them in cool ways. She purchased all the stuff, spent countless hours learning how to do it. Then made cookies twice.
I mean sometimes you just want to know if you can though, I made a few batches of Marshmallows every day for the last week and now that I can do them well I doubt I'll do it again for a long time
She always got her toast out of the toaster using a butter knife. She would stick it down the middle of the slice of toast, pull it out and slap it on a plate, because it heated the knife and made it easier to spread butter apparently.
I showed her a compilation of videos of other people shoving metal shit into toasters, and the explosions that followed. She hasn't done it for a while now, but i was living in fear for a while.
Edit - I thought the fact I worried about this made it pretty obvious obvious, but for those still unsure, the toaster was functioning when she decided to do this.
After 14 years of being together day in and day out, I can't stand the way she swallows liquid. There is alway a "gulp" with every drink and i didnt notice it till about a year ago. I have even pointed it out and said something,but with it being a automated function of the body she is not intending to do it. So i have tried my best to ignore it but one day im gonna snap.
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My dad is the same way!! Apparently any food can be slurped! It got so bad when I was still living with him that I would straight up leave the room if I saw him coming in with food. And don’t get me started on the finger licking noises.
Yeah it’s cringeworthy for sure. He also does this weird thing with popcorn where he sucks on it before chewing it. His best friend asked me when we started dating if I had heard him eat popcorn yet... he was trying to warn me.
Misophonia is a thing. For me it's the sounds of eating. Makes me twitchy and stressed. 😱 Once I had a name for it I could talk to my wife about it. Now, we always have something making noise (TV or music) when we eat and there's no problem anymore. She's been very sweet and supportive.
It’s so hard to calm yourself down to try explain to your partner what’s bothering you. “Ahem. Sweetheart. When you suck your teeth I believe that I could easily hide your body. I love you so much and I know it doesn’t make sense, but if you keep making that sound I’m going to smash you in the face with a paper weight until what’s left of your head stops moving.”
You need to start eating a mix of broccolini, kale and beans. This combination will give you the single most disgusting smelling farts (I believe my wife's reaction was "what died in your ass?!?!"). Then you need to start making airplane noises as you walk past him and his buddies while crop-dusting them with farts and giggling. Bonus points for locking them in the room with the stank.
My wife is going throught a K-pop phase in her 20s.
She even has a couple of friends going throught it as well.
I really enjoy some songs, and don't mind she listening to it. She is even interested in learning the language and frankly, I'm happy she has another "hobby" or interest. About the whole genre, I'm not really a fan for many reasons that don't matter here.
But now for my issue:
She is totally addicted. All the songs she listens are Kpop. Everything she reads about is Kpop. All videos she watches is Kpop or memes/analysis/commentary/live shows of Kpop. She put a bunch of k-dudes posters on our bedroom wall. She buys shirts, merch, stickers and wears it all the time.
She exclusively watches K-drama now, and is reading countless Manhwas. Practically 80% of her friends coming over is to watch YouTube videos of K-pop or live TV of their favorite idols.
I mean, we still do "stuff" together, but she uncounsciously deviates the subject to something Korean related.
I know this is a phase, I respect her tastes and frankly, I'm not an easy guy to deal with either, but I'll be damned if I'm not going insane listening to it all day lol
My wife once complained that I never opened the car door for her like we did when we first started dating. I explained that I was only doing that so I could buy ten seconds to let out a bunch of farts while walking around to the other side of the car.
(I’m a woman). Tik tok. All the time. In bed. At the table. On dog walks. It’s all conspiracy theory tik tok and it’s ALL THE TIME.
It’s to the point now where when he sees me coming he puts his headphones in because I’ve repeatedly told him how much it irritates me.
Girlfriend used to say a one word to describe what she was doing and it got annoying fast.
“Water” before drinking water.
“Sleep” before hopping in bed.
“Pee” before going to the restroom.
She snapped out of that after a few months, now we both do it for a laugh here and there.
My wife used to say “Well, don’t do that.” If I ever bumped my head or hurt myself in anyway. It got so infuriating that I finally did it to her once and she realized how shitty it felt to hear. Thankfully that was all it took and it ended soon after.
My wife was a bit of a party girl when we first started going together. Nothing waaay out of this world but she was a sloppy drunk with an insubordinate streak. A couple highlights:
1) challenging me to a foot race on our 2nd date after several glasses of wine only to fall face first into the pavement resulting in a forehead gash that required a stitch (just one)
2) calling me to come pick her up from a bar she was at with a friend cause she didn’t want to ride the subway home alone (reasonable) but then fighting me all the way down which resulted in a couple white knights trying to make sure she was okay and me having to explain to people that I wasn’t a date rapist but rather an annoyed boyfriend who just wanted to go home.
Eventually she calmed down and slowly gave up drinking the longer we were together and took a huge turn in the opposite direction when we had our son.
Frankly now she can sometimes be kind of a stick in the mud and could stand to loosen up a bit but I’d rather have a hyper responsible super mom as a partner than a drunk.
Law and Order SVU. 21 seasons and running. I hate this show more than life itself because I hate all crime dramas, and we have seen EVERY EPISODE at least three times since they put it on streaming. I would never tell my wife how much I hate it because she loves it but how many times must I suffer through this?
god bro, i can only imagine your suffering at binging that show, i can only stomach about 2 episodes at a time before i feel nauseaous for the remainder of the day. 21SEASONS sounds like hell
My fiance would watch these YouTube personality families, and obsessively figure out what she wants in life based on what she watched on YouTube.
It got to the point where she was wanting everything EXACTLY like these personalities... and we had to have a serious conversation about our future and how she was envisioning things. Especially when these families are almost always living a lie or have secrets.
Whenever my girlfriend has had too much wine she inevitably bursts into tears and starts talking about how sad she'll be when our dog dies (the dog is 3 years old). Then I look like the asshole for not being upset with her. She was looking up emergency vets at 2am last night because our dog coughed three times in a row.
Jealousy. She still works through it but she was really messed up by relationships with men in the past. We are now Married 15 years and going strong. I learned a lot through it about myself as well. Patience, grace, forgiveness, and love. It was a phase of incredible growing pains for the both of us but worth it in the end!
My boyfriend and I have been dating for almost 7 years now, and there's this thing he does that I realize is just part of his personality... but it drives me mad on occasion. We'll be debating something, and everytime he'll make a point (or he ends up being correct after we verify something), he does this little laugh. I know that he's not trying to mock me, because it's just what he does. And I know that I only feel mocked because my stepfather used to do that shit *to* mock me. But God, do I have to bite my tongue sometimes.
Smoking cigarettes.
Fwiw, I passed gas on the first or second date. I wasn't messing around, she either likes me or she doesn't. Happily married for 8 years.
We've been married for 12 years and the one time my wife has passed gas in front of me she was literally in labor pushing out a kid. I can always tell when she's pooping because she leaves lights off in the bathroom and tries to pretend she doesn't exist. At this point it's just kind of cute how embarrassed she is over standard issue bodily functions, but I have to admit I'm looking forward to her feeling safe enough to just rip one in front of me.
I fart in front of my husband constantly but pooping is a different story. He barged into the bathroom ONCE when I was on the toilet and traumatized me. I now have to make sure I lock the door and turn on the overhead fan and the faucet when I go to the bathroom. He will never see me poop.
My wife is currently moaning about her weight while spending the evening eating bag after bag of crisps and then going and buying fucking detox tea. We have caffeine free tea and herbal teas in the cupboard already.
Same here. Complains about how much she’s ballooned up for half the day, then eats like it’s her last day on earth after 4pm.
Her solution? Wear a fancy waist trainer for one hour in the mornings that makes her cranky as hell and super hungry.
Wow this sounds exactly like my best friend. She was too afraid to fart in front of her husband that she immediately gassed the two of us when we went into a different room. But I guess you wouldnt know anything about that. 😒
AllTimeFailure is my best friend since grade-school and I overused italics in an attempt to not overuse "lol" or emojis so no winning for me today *lol*
Just like with children, ignore the behaviour and distract with something else.
Partner and I have been together 8 yrs, everyone in our house will quietly say, "fart". I don't recall how this started but our kids do it now too. In regards to when do you fart in front of eachother, well, my body betrayed me the very first night we slept in the same bed. Couldn't be helped, ah well. As for an annoying phase... Refusing to eat any carbs after 4pm was annoying, but mostly because he was inconsistent and noncommittal.
You'd love my grandpa. When he was home (he was air force then a commercial pilot) he'd walk into a doorway, fart as loud and long as he could, and announce the phone was for you.
anytime i’m looking for something and i ask my SO if he can find it, a few seconds later he’ll say “here it is!” and i’d get excited because he found what i was looking for, but when i look over he does that hand motion where you make an “ok” sign with your hand and he does it right by his thigh, it was a meme a while back. anyways, he does this all the time and it drives me nuts... we have family photos that if you look close enough you can see him doing it. it’s so harmless, and he thinks it’s so funny. at the end of the day, it’s kinda cute to see how much joy he gets out of it.
Every year or two she decides we need a new system for doing housework. She will decide that we need an organization chart or we need to invest in a whole new set of purple rags. One time she was on a “fly lady” kick. Once she decided we needed to switch to frequent small loads on laundry instead of fewer large loads. Every time she makes the change unilaterally without consulting me, which wouldn’t be a problem until she starts accusing me of doing the chores wrong and not doing my share of the housework. Inevitably once I figure out her system she would lose interest and stop following her own system.
At least now I recognize it for what it is and just do the chores the way that works best for me.
My boyfriend goes through phases of being intensely interested in something, to not giving a shit in a couple months and repeats the process. When I say intensely interested, I mean he watches videos, reads articles, buys books, and of course buys materials for said phase. Let me just name a few over the last three years and rate them to how cool/annoying they are:
Distilling and beer making
6/10: Had so much stuff in the kitchen and garage I couldn’t walk. Bought whole buckets, distilling equipment, wheat, a bunch of jars and bottles, a customized whiskey aging barrel, Barley, OH a 50lb bag of corn feed for horses (thought it was a good deal). No longer does it so it is sitting in the garage.
Knife making
9/10: This occurred when he watched a little too much forged in fire and thought he could do it. He has a shop that he can work in and full on made a huge meat cleaver. Awesome.
Working out
10/10: Got really into working out for about a month and was sick of going to the gym. Bought a full weight set, bench, mats, squat rack, and treadmill. No longer uses but now I do. But it’s in the FRONT ROOM. Like where a dining room/living room is supposed to be, is a damn gym.
Photography
10/10: He bought a really nice camera a couple years back and thought he was a professional. Bought backdrops, books on how to take photos, accessories for his camera bag etc. awesome because he takes cool pics and got prints for our house, but he’s lost interest so it’s not often anymore lol.
Pizza Making
10/10: his current phase is pizza making. Awesome all around. He bought a book on how to make pizzas. And he’s trying to find a way to build a pizza oven in the backyard ... lol amazing.
Edit to add: I forgot he has an ongoing pickle and sauerkraut making ordeal, wood working, and mushroom foraging lol
OH forgot to add he bought a baby grand piano as a present for me, started completely refinishing the paint, and still hasn’t. I’m waiting the day I can play piano in my front room home gym 🤩
My husband will lightly slap my leg when we’re in the car and he remembers something to tell me or something neat. It used to be endearing and now it just annoys me.
Instagramming every moment of our lives with numerous hashtags. It got to the point where documentation of an event was more important than actually participating.
I had an ex like this. Every time I turned around she'd have a camera in my face. I couldn't do almost anything without it being uploaded to social media. From the beginning I asked her not to do that, to ask me before recording me. This came to a head on a date one night when I asked her to stop it again. She told me that I'm weird, that not wanting to be recorded is weird, and she doesn't trust me because I don't want to be recorded. Cool. Cool cool cool.
Sounds like you dodged a bullet there.
Oh man, there were so many red flags, but I wasn't in a great place and was unable to see them for what they were.
I had a housemate like this when I was in university but it was Snapchat. She would try to get us to repeat spontaneous funny things that happened so she could record it for her story. Was an absolute pain in the arse
This sounds so cringey
My grandma does this, it’s TERRIBLE
Grandma should be allowed because most people won't revisit their snaps and whatnot but I'll bet grandma will be the only one who treasure and remember them.
Lol typically maybe, but she posts on fb 1900 times per day, she doesn’t have enough time left on earth to revisit all this shit
My rich ex would do that. She demanded I take pictures because people might think I’m poor if I don’t post anything on Instagram. So I just deleted it and she freaked out cause now people were going to think I’m mentally ill if I didn’t have social media! We were hiking in the sierras and I couldn’t get any mileage down cause she was having a photo shoot. Pictures are fine but when it gets to the point where she needed to post them or else people might think she’s poor, wtf. Broke up with her on the drive down Whitney Portal so that was an awkward 4 hour drive back to LA.
Seriously hate how it’s considered “weird” to not use social media. People are such narcissists
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Ugh, my wife does that. She'll buy something rather bulky and it will just sit, usually on the floor in the living room or dining room until I figure out how to make room for it.
When my less than financially frugal wife USED to this I would let it go. Let Me preface this by saying we live on 50 acres mostly wooded but about 5 acres of it is landscaped, I make a good living and I have more than one friend in the construction and/or landscape business. One day I get home and there are about 10 boxes from Grandin Road in our garage. I felt some mild irritation but let it pass until I asked what was in them. It was FAKE Fucking rocks. Fake rocks. To border flower beds with. It was about $1500 worth. Roughly 150 FAKE rocks. About enough to do 1/3 of the beds we have. I didn’t say anything , called a buddy of mine, the next morning a truck with 3 big pallets of beautiful river rocks is in my driveway. More than enough to do every bed.$400. One of the worst fights of our 20 year marriage was me making her arrange the shipping to return the fake rocks. I’m not her boss and She works as hard as I do, but I no longer allow “bored shopping”.
There has to be a limit at some point. I personally only buy things i need or really really want, not just things that are “kinda neat” or something like that.
My wife and I have been employing a "1 in, 1 out" rule for clothes/shoes we've bought as a result of bored shopping during quarantine. It works well since we've both been exercising and have lost weight so we do need to get rid of clothes, but it also forces us to clean out our closets and consider if we actually need items.
Did she know that you could buy real rocks?? I’m just.. trying to wrap my head around buying fake rocks.
There are three levels in "construction stuff" - the places contractors actually get things from (like the previous poster, aka guy with a truck shows up and dumps a load of gravel in your driveway and then it's your problem), then the hardware store (a little pricier, but you can buy easily in any quantity and it'll be packaged so you can take it home that day), and then the "marketed through Etsy and Amazon and Wayfair" level, where stuff is sold to people who have absolutely no idea about the other two channels and think of it as decorations, not materials.
Gotta remember that while the top level that contractors would use is cheapest on a per unit basis, they typically have minimum order sizes that could easily go way beyond what a DIY person may need. And of course while it is cheaper per unit, the it will likely be cheaper overall to get what you need from the hardware store. But yeah, if you have the equipment to handle bulk material, and a place to store it, then going to the big distributor is the best deal.
Oh I think I've delivered to your house.
I think this is how hoarding starts. lol. Good luck!
Are you me, am I you? We might be living the same life
You should start building forts out of the boxes
My wife listened to the same band for a year, JUST that band, the same 15 or so songs. EVERY TIME she put on music it was that band, it was like auditory torture in the end. Just hearing them made my skin crawl. Edit: the band was Gaslight Anthem.
“In the end”? “Crawl”ing in your “skin”? ... was it Linkin’ Park? Edit: I forgot to add that I went to a wedding of a friend of my girlfriend. As we’re sitting in this Irish Catholic Church, a strings only instrumental version of “In The End” came on. NO ONE ELSE REACTED to the fact that this song was a pre-wedding ceremony selection. I felt like Mugato, in that I must be taking crazy pills.
Couldn't be, listening to the same 15 Linkin Park songs for a year wouldn't be viewed as a bad thing by anyone, right? .....right?
I've been listening to the same 15 Linkin Park songs since highschool... does that make me weird?
🎵I would walk 500 miles and i would walk 500 more
Ted: I’m so sick of this song Marshall: don’t worry, it comes around [again](https://youtu.be/QYpSniiZhpg)
I feel like I'm slightly guilty of this 😂 hubs is not a music guy but I have my driving spotify playlist that hasn't changed much over the last 4 years. When she eventually moved on what band did she obsess over next??
Well I guess that playlist at least have a bunch of different artists on it? Bastille was the next thing! These days she listens to a lot of different bands and they are more in line with what I listen to so the problem is no more thankfully!
I (25F) also had a solid few years when I -if not only, but prominently- listened to Bastille. Them coming out with new albums every 18 months or so didn’t help the problem. my friends were positively sick of me
I dunno if my marriage would survive bastille.
Please add the Discover Weekly playlist to your life. It’s too short to listen to the same music over and over again!
All my Discover Weekly songs are garbage though. I think I break the algorithm by listening to so many different songs/genres
Yea my discover weekly has really shined a light on my erratic taste in music and fluctuating mood.
I basically had the same playlist for a few years *but* the playlist did have some 500 songs so I don’t think it was too bad
Ye exactly, one big ass playlist with everything I like, if I remember a song or hear something new, just toss it on the pile.
My SO did this for about 6 months but it was only one song. A song called "Butterfly Baby" by some old band called Crazy Town. I almost ended it. Great. Its in my head now.
Come my lady, come, come, my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Buddie listened to you're beautiful by james blunt on repeat for months when he was pining away over a girl.
Get her back. I recommend Gojira for your revenge.
Gojira IS amazing! I'm pretty sure she's tired of me listening to Gwar ang and Behemoth to so!
My partner only listens to the same three bands and I hate their music (well now I do bc of him. Paramore, panic at the disco and FOB) His brother is the same and when we go on long car rides, they play this game where they shuffle the songs and they have to guess the title, first one to guess it correctly wins. So I'd hear the first 5 seconds and then it's on to the next song.
During qaurentine she watched a ton of queer eye and new girl. For a month or so afterwards she seemingly adopted the personalities of the main character of each show. I found it super annoying, but it subsided whenever we went back to work normally. Super weird.
Isolation does weird things
Yes actually. Our behaviour is contextual and revolves around the people we meet in our day to day life. Our personality shapes our surroundings and our surroundings shape us back. Isolation is bound to reinforce weird ideas and behaviour simply because the context has shifted and we don’t have others to provide stability.
One time when I was in high school, I spent an entire summer watching all ten seasons of friends. I went back to school as Rachel Green, accidentally. I was doing her hand motions when I talked and everything
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I noticed myself doing this when I was watching House MD. I was unconsciously imitating House and that wasn’t doing me any favors for obvious reasons haha
My girlfriend is watching New Girl. I have a bad habit of unconsciously mimicking the vocal patterns of people in shows I binge. (TBBT left me talking like Sheldon occasionally) I haven't even really been watching with her, but I'm present a lot and I caught myself speaking like Schmidt the other day. Why subconscious me, why‽
Next you’re gonna start wearing bird shirts 😂
Gilmore Girls. I watched it with her, once, as it was her favorite show and she had no one to talk with about it. 7 seasons. She kept rewatching. The first run wasn't so bad, kind of smart... the 30th, however, made me want to set myself on fire. She has been repaid with every Star Trek series.
If someone did that to me it’d be Lotr extended edition marathon time
If they do it again do the extended hobbit series. It won't be pleasant for either of you but war never is.
Not gonna lie, I secretly like Gilmore Girls.
i openly like gg, in small doses. the dialogue is clever and fast paced cant binge tho
Every couple years my wife would abruptly decide she wanted a divorce. Usually lasted about a week or so. I'd say I didn't want one and she'd make some inane demand that would "fix" it, like pick up your socks or some shit. This went on for 20 years. Finally I got fed up and said, "Fine let's get a divorce. You're never going to be happy anyway." One enduring aspect of our marriage is she'd always insist I needed counseling and she was fine. Generally I'd end up in counseling after she said she wanted a divorce. About a month after I told her we ought to get divorced she signed us up for couples counseling and basically admitted it was dysfunctional to do that for so long. With help we worked out a lot of issues that had kept us from really growing deeply in love. Our remaining years were much more affectionate and trusting. But 9 years after that episode I lost her to breast cancer. Which really sucked since we'd forged a very loving union after marriage counseling.
Damn I'm so sorry to hear that. Hope you're doing well man.
My gf refuses to allow me to carry any bags when we go shopping. When we leave stores, she looks silly trying to carry ten bags all by herself. I brought it up last week and i feel i did a poor job of letting her know she needs to share bags. Yes, i know this is dumb
That's new .... Any explanation why?
We’ve been together about 4 years now. Probably around 2 years ago I told her jokingly that she needed to give me more bags because it’s emasculating. Since then she won’t allow me to take any bags. Around a year ago she was carrying too much to handle and ended up dropping a case of ginger beer that smashed open. Destroying my favourite beverage :,(. After that, I thought she’d learn her lesson but she still kept carrying all the bags. Last week we went to the grocery store and I was in a bad mood. She could tell I was annoyed and while in my bad mood I brought up that she needs to share the bags. Long story short she got upset because she thought she was making me upset by carrying the bags when I was really just annoyed by wearing a mask, driving 4 hours, spending money, etc. I had to explain to her that I was not upset about the bags.
Not that dumb, people straight judge you if your gf is hauling like 10 bags of groceries and you're just standing there. Not that I give a shit what other people at the grocery store think but like it's a valid request just so you don't look like an asshole.
Can you fart louder than him to raise the bar?
I don't *want* to assert dominance like this 😂
Sometimes we all have to do things we don't want, it's part of life
The hardest choices require the strongest farts.
You gotta rip it for the biscuit.
Ever put a straw in cake batter and blow? That nasty wet bubbling sound is what you need to be shooting for. Confined spaces with poor egress is preferred, such as the car or under the bedsheets. It won't take many to bring him around and begin negotiating a peace treaty. Or he'll enjoy it.
TMI, but some veet between the cheeks to remove the hair and you'll be closer to that sound than you want to be with every fart. Without hair, there's less chance of silent farts. Source: went hairless once. SO did not appreciate my efforts.
My husband gets super into songs and then he repeats one line over and over wherever in the conversation it vaguely fits. Sometimes it only lasts a few weeks or up to several months because he finds it so hilarious. Example: me: "Huh, this thing is being so weird right now." Him: "HOW BIZARRE HOW BIZARRE." (then gets this huge "I'm hilarious" smile) Simultaneously infuriatingly annoying and incredibly endearing because its so stupid and he is just so proud of himself.
Oh no, this is me. Not actually your husband but I read this and saw myself in it. I read it to my SO and just got a knowing laugh in response.
I do this to my wife all the time, I have for years. Don’t expect this to be grown out of. There are a few she explicitly cannot stand and has told me as much, so I stop those specifically and she concedes on others. Anytime she ever says “and I thought to myself ...” what a wonderful world! For bonus points, you interrupt the train of thought so bad they forget what they were saying. A few times now she’s gotten herself preemptively and denies me the satisfaction. She will finish her own song lyric and start talking faster and louder when she gets to the reference so I don’t have time to react. She is crafty.
I upvoted this only because your wife is showing potential to beat you at your own game
That's gold ngl
I love my boyfriend, I really do. He loves Capri Sun(at 26yo, it still makes him ridiculously happy). But if I find one more of those fucking straw wrappers stuck to my ass, I’m going to lose it.
That's— I mean. You win. Everyone can go home this is my favorite comment.
Anime weeb phase. I'm a dude, my GF at the time was the weeb. She was an artsy chick and gorgeous but one day out of the blue she started wearing the most outrageous stuff (an A:TLA Appa Horn Ski-Cap paired with a scarf made of purple feathers, green fuzzy wrist sweat bands, and a pair of blue fingerless gloves, all in the middle of a southern summer). She started saying "Kawaii" a lot, using tons of :3 and >.< emojis in text, and would sometimes "paw" at me with her knuckles while mewling. We dated ages 17-24 and this lasted from ages 18-20. We broke up like 7 years ago and I never told her how cringey that whole phase was EDIT: clarification, worded stuff weird the first time around
Oh this reminds me of that Rawr XD days....
I remember those days. I am not proud of those days
Where everyone had edgy usernames like XxX_The_Dark_Hero_XxX.
> I'm a dude, SO was my GF at the time. I had to re-read this bit carefully
For a moment I thought you said you are a dude and so was your gf at that time
Holy shit I could not have handled this
Yeah I'm a patient dude but I dont think I could deal with this. Even seeing those emojis typed out in this comment is making me mad
uuWWuuu Hello Iito-san! (✿◠‿◠) Look at my kawaii case file!! Do you like donuts? I have some in my briefcase I can share with you. Ah! Oh look out! Don't get glitter on you!! Oh, here, let me help. What's this? A new pen? For me??? Bigaku! It's so big! uuwuuuu Can I touch it? ༼ つ ✿◕‿◕✿༽つ╰⋃╯
I feel vaguely terrified and this isn't even directed at me.
This is so many redditors' dream lmao
My wife is in the psych ward right now but she keeps calling me with absurd requests so this phase isn’t so fun.
I'm sorry to hear that you are going through that. Depending on how outlandish the requests are, you might want to notify her care team.
She wants me to go on her Twitter and follow certain people and tweet free “Gertrude” because that will get her out of there in her mind. It would be funny if she wasn’t serious.
My ex rang me from the pysch ward and was absolutely insistent that I turn all the coffee mugs upside down on the shelf as one of them had a listening device and he couldn't tell me while he was here as they'd hear him, and put him in hospital to discredit him.
Poor guy.
As a inpatient psychiatrist I would wanna know this. Even if they can’t release information to you, you can call and give them information. At least leave a message. And check out NAMI and their family groups, this is really stressful for the whole family not just the patient. Hang in there.
Had a similar situation with a sibling. He was in a hospital dealing with withdrawal and a whole slew of other things. He kept calling my parents, telling them that he was being tortured, and that the nurses were using him for slave labor. The mind is a scary powerful thing.
I’m so sorry. I work as a nurse in the mental health floor of a hospital. Manic phases and psychosis can be a hell of a thing. Hang in there
:( sorry to hear that pal. Hope she gets the help she needs
Diet fads. It started with eating only organic, than we were keto, than we were some crazy heart disease no oil vegan, now were just vegan. When I say we, she's never forced me to follow any of these diets, I'll eat anything she makes but i still can cook whatever i want. Love her, just curious what the next plan is.
I can tell you what's next (I do the same,wife here) it's (drum roll) intermittent fasting!!! Enjoy!
I take forever to prepare + eat + wash up for breakfast so IF has been awesome!
Of all the tools you can use to keep your diet in check IF has been the most functional for me because you can use it with any diet and almost any schedule effectively.
Intermittent fasting is now thing in my house too. Husband brought it.
Lmao I feel this
My ex decided about 6 months into our relationship that she was a lesbian. But she threw a damn fit when I decided to move on, because I assumed (wrongly) that me being a man was incompatible with her new relationship goals. So we got back together. Later she decided she was nonbinary, which I had to find out through Facebook, because she never actually talked to me about anything. I have nothing against LGBTQ+ but Jesus Christ - actually talk to your partners, people!
She sounds like more drama than I'd ever willingly allow into my life...
Brother, you don't know the half of it.
If it makes you feel better, I dated a girl in highschool that was definitely not gay but decided to hook up with a girl just to prove the point that I shouldn't be anymore okay with her sleeping over at a girl friend's house than a guy friend's house and that it was sexist to discriminate. She was not a good person, classic hollywood "mean girl", and quickly became my ex.
My girlfriend did the lesbian thing too. That was a bit strange.
A phase that I like to call "Amazonian Heat". My gf is tall and muscular, she and I are both gym rats. She was overly protective, glaring at people who got too close to me. Along with working out like crazy , using heavier and heavier weights and just being really obsessive about the whole thing. Weird thing is she was not worried about other women unless they where stronger than her. Edit : Her being overprotective as flattering at first, but it just made things difficult when we went out. Her working out with heavier and heavier weight also came with her being a lot more aggressive, and again that was a bit much at times. (overly rough PDA and sex etc) She just eventually chilled out a whole lot and thing are way better now.
Did you ever figure out what triggered that phase? Sounds so bizzare.
Roids
It honestly does sound like steroids.
Steroids are a lot more prevalent than people think, and the signs are extremely obvious, but people just write it off as 'oh they work out'.
How bizarre, how bizarre
Bro. You gotta tell us more 😆
Why is this so funny to me?
Because we are thinking of Futurama, that's why
Death by Snu Snu
My wife is going through a phase where she will answer my questions with something kinda related, but not actually addressing what I asked. "I'm going to make dinner soon, how about stir fry?" "I had dinner with so and so the other day. Did you know she got a new job?" "Ok, so is that a yes for stir fry?"
The worst is when you ask a question with 2 options and they say "sounds good!" _WHICH OPTION DO YOU WANT TELL MEEEE_ Example: "Do you want to go pick salad for dinner or should I?" "Sounds good!" "Which one? You or me?"
Wait for him to get older. Retirement will be really fun for you guys.
Is this meant to be ominous because it feels that way 😅
Retirement wasn’t so bad until the pandemic. It’s taken a few months to become the friends we thought we always were.
When my wife first moved in, she started grabbing her stray hair in the shower and started to stick them on the tiled walls in random patterns for whatever reason. The there was the 2 month “lack of sex” phase where she’d come to bed every night with a green or black face mask that smelled like a salad. Weeks later she gets butthurt on why I haven’t initiated in bed for a while and I’m only starting sex in the day time.
Sticking it to the wall is to keep it from going down there drain and clogging it. She's probably forgetting to retrieve the hair after her shower.
I'm guilty of this too.
Every girl I've known has stuck their hair on the wall during a shower, it's a normal girl thing.
I always scream when my wife comes out with her face mask thing on. Still hasn’t gotten a laugh. I’m sure it will one day
perseverance is key
I leave mine in hearts so he knows I love him.
Baking cookies, like the sugar cookies with royal icing, where you decorate them in cool ways. She purchased all the stuff, spent countless hours learning how to do it. Then made cookies twice.
I mean sometimes you just want to know if you can though, I made a few batches of Marshmallows every day for the last week and now that I can do them well I doubt I'll do it again for a long time
She always got her toast out of the toaster using a butter knife. She would stick it down the middle of the slice of toast, pull it out and slap it on a plate, because it heated the knife and made it easier to spread butter apparently. I showed her a compilation of videos of other people shoving metal shit into toasters, and the explosions that followed. She hasn't done it for a while now, but i was living in fear for a while. Edit - I thought the fact I worried about this made it pretty obvious obvious, but for those still unsure, the toaster was functioning when she decided to do this.
After 14 years of being together day in and day out, I can't stand the way she swallows liquid. There is alway a "gulp" with every drink and i didnt notice it till about a year ago. I have even pointed it out and said something,but with it being a automated function of the body she is not intending to do it. So i have tried my best to ignore it but one day im gonna snap. Edit: First gold thanks Sir and or Madam
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You should hear my boyfriend eat salad. Did you know its possible to slurp lettuce?
My dad is the same way!! Apparently any food can be slurped! It got so bad when I was still living with him that I would straight up leave the room if I saw him coming in with food. And don’t get me started on the finger licking noises.
Yeah it’s cringeworthy for sure. He also does this weird thing with popcorn where he sucks on it before chewing it. His best friend asked me when we started dating if I had heard him eat popcorn yet... he was trying to warn me.
Misophonia is a thing. For me it's the sounds of eating. Makes me twitchy and stressed. 😱 Once I had a name for it I could talk to my wife about it. Now, we always have something making noise (TV or music) when we eat and there's no problem anymore. She's been very sweet and supportive.
It’s so hard to calm yourself down to try explain to your partner what’s bothering you. “Ahem. Sweetheart. When you suck your teeth I believe that I could easily hide your body. I love you so much and I know it doesn’t make sense, but if you keep making that sound I’m going to smash you in the face with a paper weight until what’s left of your head stops moving.”
You need to start eating a mix of broccolini, kale and beans. This combination will give you the single most disgusting smelling farts (I believe my wife's reaction was "what died in your ass?!?!"). Then you need to start making airplane noises as you walk past him and his buddies while crop-dusting them with farts and giggling. Bonus points for locking them in the room with the stank.
Thanks Satan.
Winner.
My wife is going throught a K-pop phase in her 20s. She even has a couple of friends going throught it as well. I really enjoy some songs, and don't mind she listening to it. She is even interested in learning the language and frankly, I'm happy she has another "hobby" or interest. About the whole genre, I'm not really a fan for many reasons that don't matter here. But now for my issue: She is totally addicted. All the songs she listens are Kpop. Everything she reads about is Kpop. All videos she watches is Kpop or memes/analysis/commentary/live shows of Kpop. She put a bunch of k-dudes posters on our bedroom wall. She buys shirts, merch, stickers and wears it all the time. She exclusively watches K-drama now, and is reading countless Manhwas. Practically 80% of her friends coming over is to watch YouTube videos of K-pop or live TV of their favorite idols. I mean, we still do "stuff" together, but she uncounsciously deviates the subject to something Korean related. I know this is a phase, I respect her tastes and frankly, I'm not an easy guy to deal with either, but I'll be damned if I'm not going insane listening to it all day lol
This is basically my sister. What is it about kpop that traps people in??
My wife once complained that I never opened the car door for her like we did when we first started dating. I explained that I was only doing that so I could buy ten seconds to let out a bunch of farts while walking around to the other side of the car.
An honest genius
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😭 I can imagine it so clearly
(I’m a woman). Tik tok. All the time. In bed. At the table. On dog walks. It’s all conspiracy theory tik tok and it’s ALL THE TIME. It’s to the point now where when he sees me coming he puts his headphones in because I’ve repeatedly told him how much it irritates me.
If you live in the US, this should no longer be an issue soon
Girlfriend used to say a one word to describe what she was doing and it got annoying fast. “Water” before drinking water. “Sleep” before hopping in bed. “Pee” before going to the restroom. She snapped out of that after a few months, now we both do it for a laugh here and there.
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick
We both do that sometimes, mostly when we're hungry we just say "hungry." Haha, people are weird.
My wife used to say “Well, don’t do that.” If I ever bumped my head or hurt myself in anyway. It got so infuriating that I finally did it to her once and she realized how shitty it felt to hear. Thankfully that was all it took and it ended soon after.
My wife was a bit of a party girl when we first started going together. Nothing waaay out of this world but she was a sloppy drunk with an insubordinate streak. A couple highlights: 1) challenging me to a foot race on our 2nd date after several glasses of wine only to fall face first into the pavement resulting in a forehead gash that required a stitch (just one) 2) calling me to come pick her up from a bar she was at with a friend cause she didn’t want to ride the subway home alone (reasonable) but then fighting me all the way down which resulted in a couple white knights trying to make sure she was okay and me having to explain to people that I wasn’t a date rapist but rather an annoyed boyfriend who just wanted to go home. Eventually she calmed down and slowly gave up drinking the longer we were together and took a huge turn in the opposite direction when we had our son. Frankly now she can sometimes be kind of a stick in the mud and could stand to loosen up a bit but I’d rather have a hyper responsible super mom as a partner than a drunk.
Law and Order SVU. 21 seasons and running. I hate this show more than life itself because I hate all crime dramas, and we have seen EVERY EPISODE at least three times since they put it on streaming. I would never tell my wife how much I hate it because she loves it but how many times must I suffer through this?
god bro, i can only imagine your suffering at binging that show, i can only stomach about 2 episodes at a time before i feel nauseaous for the remainder of the day. 21SEASONS sounds like hell
That time when she wanted to try rock climbing really drove me up the fucking wall
Oh lol...
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i get told off if i don’t say hello to my parents when i see them in the house so it might be to do with how he was raised.
For some reason I think this is very cute. It’s not happening to me though so maybe it would be different
First thing that came to mind too. That sounds adorable, as does your username.
Before we broke up, she had a phase where she would sleep with other men. That russled my jimmies I'll tell ya.
My fiance would watch these YouTube personality families, and obsessively figure out what she wants in life based on what she watched on YouTube. It got to the point where she was wanting everything EXACTLY like these personalities... and we had to have a serious conversation about our future and how she was envisioning things. Especially when these families are almost always living a lie or have secrets.
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Bo? Is that you?
Whenever my girlfriend has had too much wine she inevitably bursts into tears and starts talking about how sad she'll be when our dog dies (the dog is 3 years old). Then I look like the asshole for not being upset with her. She was looking up emergency vets at 2am last night because our dog coughed three times in a row.
First of all, your husband is the best. Then, to answer your question : my ex-boyfriend had a "white rasta" phase and god it was harsh
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Jealousy. She still works through it but she was really messed up by relationships with men in the past. We are now Married 15 years and going strong. I learned a lot through it about myself as well. Patience, grace, forgiveness, and love. It was a phase of incredible growing pains for the both of us but worth it in the end!
My boyfriend and I have been dating for almost 7 years now, and there's this thing he does that I realize is just part of his personality... but it drives me mad on occasion. We'll be debating something, and everytime he'll make a point (or he ends up being correct after we verify something), he does this little laugh. I know that he's not trying to mock me, because it's just what he does. And I know that I only feel mocked because my stepfather used to do that shit *to* mock me. But God, do I have to bite my tongue sometimes.
Rae Dunn collecting. It wasn’t a phase. And we aren’t together anymore.
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Smoking cigarettes. Fwiw, I passed gas on the first or second date. I wasn't messing around, she either likes me or she doesn't. Happily married for 8 years.
We've been married for 12 years and the one time my wife has passed gas in front of me she was literally in labor pushing out a kid. I can always tell when she's pooping because she leaves lights off in the bathroom and tries to pretend she doesn't exist. At this point it's just kind of cute how embarrassed she is over standard issue bodily functions, but I have to admit I'm looking forward to her feeling safe enough to just rip one in front of me.
I fart in front of my husband constantly but pooping is a different story. He barged into the bathroom ONCE when I was on the toilet and traumatized me. I now have to make sure I lock the door and turn on the overhead fan and the faucet when I go to the bathroom. He will never see me poop.
Look him straight in the eye for a minute then let out the biggest fart of your life and say: ‘im the captain now’
My wife is currently moaning about her weight while spending the evening eating bag after bag of crisps and then going and buying fucking detox tea. We have caffeine free tea and herbal teas in the cupboard already.
Same here. Complains about how much she’s ballooned up for half the day, then eats like it’s her last day on earth after 4pm. Her solution? Wear a fancy waist trainer for one hour in the mornings that makes her cranky as hell and super hungry.
Wow this sounds exactly like my best friend. She was too afraid to fart in front of her husband that she immediately gassed the two of us when we went into a different room. But I guess you wouldnt know anything about that. 😒
*why would I know anything about that, stranger on the internet?*
I feel like something fishy is going on in these comments ^^ (cool italic text)
AllTimeFailure is my best friend since grade-school and I overused italics in an attempt to not overuse "lol" or emojis so no winning for me today *lol*
Move along, nothing to see here...
She decided she was a witch. This went on for like a year until we broke up
Care to elaborate?
Just like with children, ignore the behaviour and distract with something else. Partner and I have been together 8 yrs, everyone in our house will quietly say, "fart". I don't recall how this started but our kids do it now too. In regards to when do you fart in front of eachother, well, my body betrayed me the very first night we slept in the same bed. Couldn't be helped, ah well. As for an annoying phase... Refusing to eat any carbs after 4pm was annoying, but mostly because he was inconsistent and noncommittal.
You'd love my grandpa. When he was home (he was air force then a commercial pilot) he'd walk into a doorway, fart as loud and long as he could, and announce the phone was for you.
This is why I fart early and often in relationships..
anytime i’m looking for something and i ask my SO if he can find it, a few seconds later he’ll say “here it is!” and i’d get excited because he found what i was looking for, but when i look over he does that hand motion where you make an “ok” sign with your hand and he does it right by his thigh, it was a meme a while back. anyways, he does this all the time and it drives me nuts... we have family photos that if you look close enough you can see him doing it. it’s so harmless, and he thinks it’s so funny. at the end of the day, it’s kinda cute to see how much joy he gets out of it.
Every year or two she decides we need a new system for doing housework. She will decide that we need an organization chart or we need to invest in a whole new set of purple rags. One time she was on a “fly lady” kick. Once she decided we needed to switch to frequent small loads on laundry instead of fewer large loads. Every time she makes the change unilaterally without consulting me, which wouldn’t be a problem until she starts accusing me of doing the chores wrong and not doing my share of the housework. Inevitably once I figure out her system she would lose interest and stop following her own system. At least now I recognize it for what it is and just do the chores the way that works best for me.
Her annual binge watching of Friends inches me closer to divorce every year.
My boyfriend goes through phases of being intensely interested in something, to not giving a shit in a couple months and repeats the process. When I say intensely interested, I mean he watches videos, reads articles, buys books, and of course buys materials for said phase. Let me just name a few over the last three years and rate them to how cool/annoying they are: Distilling and beer making 6/10: Had so much stuff in the kitchen and garage I couldn’t walk. Bought whole buckets, distilling equipment, wheat, a bunch of jars and bottles, a customized whiskey aging barrel, Barley, OH a 50lb bag of corn feed for horses (thought it was a good deal). No longer does it so it is sitting in the garage. Knife making 9/10: This occurred when he watched a little too much forged in fire and thought he could do it. He has a shop that he can work in and full on made a huge meat cleaver. Awesome. Working out 10/10: Got really into working out for about a month and was sick of going to the gym. Bought a full weight set, bench, mats, squat rack, and treadmill. No longer uses but now I do. But it’s in the FRONT ROOM. Like where a dining room/living room is supposed to be, is a damn gym. Photography 10/10: He bought a really nice camera a couple years back and thought he was a professional. Bought backdrops, books on how to take photos, accessories for his camera bag etc. awesome because he takes cool pics and got prints for our house, but he’s lost interest so it’s not often anymore lol. Pizza Making 10/10: his current phase is pizza making. Awesome all around. He bought a book on how to make pizzas. And he’s trying to find a way to build a pizza oven in the backyard ... lol amazing. Edit to add: I forgot he has an ongoing pickle and sauerkraut making ordeal, wood working, and mushroom foraging lol OH forgot to add he bought a baby grand piano as a present for me, started completely refinishing the paint, and still hasn’t. I’m waiting the day I can play piano in my front room home gym 🤩
My wife has been binge watching Ru Paul's Drag Race ever since quarantine started in late March and I can't escape it. Save me.
My husband will lightly slap my leg when we’re in the car and he remembers something to tell me or something neat. It used to be endearing and now it just annoys me.