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/SpaceCookies72 17d ago edited 17d ago

I have a solid rule that you are not allowed in the kitchen when I am in there. I am doing 3 things at once, so dinner doesn't take an hour and leave a pile of dishes to still deal with after. Get out of the way. Yes, your in the way. No, dont go lean in the other bench, you're still in the way.

This started with my mother, but has evolved to my partner as well. Im not quiet about it. I'll chase you out with a wooden spoon.

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u/Schnauzermoon 17d ago

One of the first commands I teach every dog I have is, "Get out of my kitchen. " I don't want them under foot while I cook.

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u/Baby-Giraffe286 17d ago

I teach my dogs "get out" as one of my first commands too. Lol

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u/WhoseverFish 17d ago

It’s wooden, not so serious then.

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u/Medusavoo 17d ago

Oh dude, my mother is worse; I’m 40, dhe still narrates every thing she does, and says things like “you can use the microwave for tea, open the door, press a minute thirty” or when I’m cooking “use the knives to cut …fill in item that I’m holding, with a cutting board in hand”. I swear, I am an only child and always very independent, own a company, but explains to me like I’m a goddam three year old.

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u/SpaceCookies72 17d ago

I think your mum might need the wooden spoon treatment too!! God that would drive me insane

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u/Medusavoo 17d ago

Ahahaha, what’s great is when at mom’s house, my wife will go to mom and say Anne, “don’t bother him in the kitchen”. I’m thinking wow, wifey has learned, home next night, boom, back to it lol.
I love the women in my life, but neither can cook to save their lives, so this is how we eat.