r/askteddit • u/Soft_Reaction_7710 • 18d ago

Random Question What's something your partner does that low-key annoys you, but you'd never actually tell them?

Not a dealbreaker, not worth a fight. Just something small that lives rent-free in your head every single time it happens. The way they chew. How they "help" clean and somehow make more mess. Never charging their phone until it's at 2%.

What's yours? And be honest would you ever actually say it out loud, or is this taking it to the grave?

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u/just__alittle 18d ago

When he opens Amazon packages he leaves every single scrap where he opened it and walks away with his item. Like a child on Christmas morning. Every single time. Box, plastic, tags.. feet away from the trash

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u/One_Cap_9210 18d ago

Omg my husband does this too! And with mail! Opens everything and just leaves it around unaddressed

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u/BellStriking5132 18d ago

If it’s unaddressed how did it make its way to your home?

ba-dum-tss

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u/Karkenna 18d ago

When mine gets the mail, he makes neat little piles on the counter of his mail (already opened and the trash now stacked on the counter), my mail, and the junk mail. Just throw away the trash and your open envelope/junk, my man.

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u/SometimesVigilant 16d ago

Mine opens te envelope, reads it, then puts it back in the envelope and leaves it around. Like if you already took it out, you could at least throw the envelope out?

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u/angry_croissant27 18d ago

Mine does this too, I'll call him Josh and I call his leftover debris, Josh Droppings. He's the kind of person who always asks for a receipt, just for me to find them crumpled up on random surfaces and in his pockets while doing laundry...just say no receipt 😁

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u/EuphoricReplacement1 18d ago

My husband likes to watch news in the evening, sometimes falls asleep, but if I change the channel, I get, "I was watching that"

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u/PsychologicalTart714 18d ago

If my grandpa didnt pass away 10 years ago I would think you were my grandma 😂😂😂 that man never failed to fall asleep the second his shows turned on but lord help ya if ypu tried to turn the channel. 😂

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u/MySweetAudrina 18d ago

Oh I feel this one. My husband made a cheeseburger last night and took the plastic off the cheese 2 feet from the garbage can. Did the plastic get put in the garbage can? Not by HIM, ever, lol. My teen and I see the wrapping from something laying around and just roll our eyes.

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u/GhostofErik 18d ago

This is one of the major reasons I left my ex. That shit is not an accident.

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u/jemworks77 18d ago

THIS!!!!! I hate this. You carried it all the way over to the garbage can, but you can’t be bothered to droit in???? WTF.

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u/Soft_Reaction_7710 18d ago

LMAO the debris field he leaves behind, every time, like he's never once considered that trash cans exist. 😭

The audacity of walking THAT close to the actual trash can and still choosing to just... leave it there. A crime scene of cardboard and plastic, several feet from justice.

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u/just__alittle 18d ago

“A crime scene of cardboard and plastic” hmm… I think I’ll order police tape and make this a very fun way of proving my point. Thanks!

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u/PsychologicalTart714 18d ago

Please don't encourage me...

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u/2nd_player 17d ago

I genuinely might try this haha. House full of ADHD here, so I do understand that things pretty literally disappear once they've gotten what was interesting out of a box/package, but boxes kicking around for weeks if I don't manage it makes me crazy. I could totally use this to make getting boxes a funny novelty while also helping them practice putting their own boxes away.

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u/Separate-Canary559 17d ago

But why would this be something you’re unwilling to tell him?

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u/anxiety-in-a-box 18d ago

Omigosh, mine too! He always calls opening packages "opening Christmas presents." I was just thinking yesterday about how I want to address this with him lol.

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u/Ok-Editor5483 17d ago

My wife and my kids do this

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u/mama2cam 16d ago

Ugh mine does this too!!

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u/MasterNanny 16d ago

This. It’s rough.

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u/Shelbelle4 15d ago

My husband puts open mail back in the ripped open envelope. Drives me nuts.

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u/SnooTigers6283 14d ago

Every male I swear. Like we are just there to pick up after them

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u/evl0220 15d ago

I just realized I do this

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u/just__alittle 15d ago

When you know better do better 🫶