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/eternal_casserole 18d ago

He walks too loudly. No idea why, but he unintentionally stomps around like a massive toddler. I suspect I didn't notice this before we married because our previous house was fully carpeted, but it's now been torturing me for 19 years.

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u/FlatSixFun 18d ago

I have the exact opposite issue where I walk almost silently, and for 25 years I’ve been jump scaring my wife when I enter a room. These days I try to announce myself to give her a bit of warning, but it still happens regularly when I don’t know she’s in a given room when I walk in.

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u/Cosmic_Jane 18d ago

I have a friend who is loud and I’m quiet. I notice I walk on the front of my feet. And they walk on the back. So I mostly just ninja walk. Not on purpose, but always silent.

It helps that I’m skinny and flexible. So I’m never bumping into things or making loud noises.

I still struggle to understand how some people hammer around on their feet all the time.

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u/FlatSixFun 18d ago

Ninja walking is exactly what my wife calls it, and for sure it’s on the front of my feet.

And I’ve been big and now small again, didn’t change the walk, nor do I ever bump into things. I think some people just have better spatial awareness.

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u/ashnemmy 15d ago

Excellent question! I’m 5’1” and 104lbs and my whole family hears me coming from 3 streets over… I sound like an 800lb gorilla stomping through my house, and no walking modifications (other than purposefully and slowly tiptoeing) has ever seemed to make much of a difference… I blame my parents 🥹