'I Can't Do This': Top 20+ Dating Pet Peeves For Painfully Peeved Partners

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Eleonora Bader
May 30, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

When you're dating someone for a while, you begin to notice a few things, and those things tend to lean on the negative side. Either your partner starts taking you for granted and no longer deems putting the toilet seat down an important daily task, or perhaps you just start realizing that they chew with their mouth wide open. Once upon a time, you wouldn't have noticed, as your love hormones were going wild, and there was still a thick wool over your eyes. Slowly but surely you get to meet all sides of your partner. That is to say, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

A question was posed on r/askmen, 'What drives you nuts about your SO or Spouse?', and that's a fair question. Some of the replies surprised us, while others were kind of obvious. Scroll down to read this relatable thread. For more, here are some complicated relationship memes for ladies who are sort of stuck in the boyfriend gray zone.

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  • 01
    Font - Posted by u/dreamingonastar1 Female 10 hours ago What drives you nuts about your SO or Spouse?
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    Font - Only-Competition-929 8 hr. ago insanely clingy. i mean i can step foot out our room without her yelling asking where i'm going or what i'm doing. have to almost fist fight her just to take a shower by myself. if i have food she's right behind be begging for a bite but
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    Font - will starve before she fixes herself something to eat. some days i get really irritated but deep down i wouldn't trade her for anyone else but seriously you need me to stand in the bathroom while you pee Reply Share 238
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    Font - bowlsandsand. 6 hr. ago I love my wife so much, but her sense of direction is on par with zoro from one piece. ↑ 583 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - SassiesSoiled Panties 9 hr. ago I adore my wife. My one pet peeve that drives me insane is her habit of speaking in a tone and volume as if I'm right next to her, when I'm really 10 meters away,
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    Font - facing the other way, with a noisy fan on and currently either working or gaming or listening to music. My most frequent love overture towards her is yelling WHAAAAAT and then standing up and having to walk next to her to hear what she wanted to say.
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    Font - I was raised by yellers. My parents rarely had the courtesy of coming to where I was and asking/telling me what they needed me to do. Most often they would just yell from downstairs. That fɩ king PIS ED and PIS ES me off. 1.7k Reply Share
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    Font - thef¹ Her need to move my stuff to make it "easier" to "find and use" but then doesn't tell me she moved it or where she moved it. Yes some of the items in locations are ridiculous. Like Yes there was a • 10 hr. ago .
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    Font - spatula underneath the desk in the office honey. Why? I don't remember. But now you've moved it and now I don't know where it issssss 1.1k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - BackItUpWithLinks 9 hr. ago She's always late. I'm always on time. This is a recurring issue. 4478 478 Reply Share
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    Font - Suckapunch1979 · 7 hr. ago She says incentative instead of incentive 140 Reply Share
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    Font - Jwalt-93 8 hr. ago The thing that bothers me the most is she always has to one up my sad stories. I tell her about a negative experience I've had and she like "the same thing happened to me but
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    Font - worse" like she constantly wants me feeling sorry for her. It makes it hard to share anything with her. 557 Reply Share
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    Font - Reckless_Pixel. 10 hr. ago Instead of coming to the room I'm in if she wants to talk to me she yells for me in the room she's in until I come there. 4 642 642 Reply Share
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    Font - jackbauermmm. 7 hr. ago My wife NEVER! TURNS! OFF! THE! LIGHTS! Every room, closet, bathroom, garage, or patio! it doesn't matter if she's in there for 1 minute or 1 hour, the lights are on and stay on! I don't know the rhyme or
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    Font - reason, but they are on. I ask her to start turning them off, but she doesn't. I don't know if she refuses or she just forgets, but it drives me up the freaking wall! Thank you for letting me vent. Love you all, you're not alone! 231 Reply Share
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    Font - Key-External88707 hr. ago When we work from home together, if she's in the middle of something I will DIE if I try to talk to her. If I'm in the middle of something and she tries to talk to me? Whoa buddy better drop what I'm doing and pay attention.
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    Font - Also applies to the 3 days I'm in the office. She'll call in the middle of the day to talk about...what she is stressed about. And if I don't stop what I'm doing to listen to her vent then I'm a huge as nole? Like, I'm not in the middle of my own stuff? At work? Working??
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    Font - Moosefearssatan · 7 hr. ago Chews with her mouth open and so, so noisily - I've given up now but in the past I've asked so many times to please try and try to chew mouth closed- she just flat out refused 71 Reply Share
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    Font - srsacc177 hr. ago omg she is soooo slow to do things, it drives me nuts, I have to take it over and tell her to not worry about it. She tells me that she never do things because I always take over it, but maaaaan, it can take her 30
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    Font - minutes to make a sandwich. 1.5 hours to take a shower, 1 hour to do dishes (like 10 dishes)... 125 Reply Share
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    Font - angeryLama 9 hr. ago Everything has to be according to her preferences, and she does Not consider otherwise. Have I mentioned- EVERYTHING? 140 Reply Share
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