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“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore

“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore

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We all like to think we have exacting standards for our partners, but the fact is that love can overcome a lot of “issues.” Maturing is deciding what you can compromise on and what things really are deal breakers in the long run.
Someone asked “What disgusting habit have you learned to overlook in a spouse?” and people shared their best examples. So get comfortable as you read through, prepare to perhaps recognize a few behaviors, upvote your least favorite examples and be sure to comment your own thoughts below.

#21

“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore
4.5 years in I realized he was eating his boogers 😔 I told him I’ll get a spray bottle if he doesn’t stop.
27points

#22

“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore
Collecting whiskey/bourbon bottles to display on top of kitchen cabinets. No, we do not live in a frat house.
27points

#23

“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore
Being unable to put the dirty clothes in the hamper… and piling the clothes right next to the empty hamper on the floor. I stopped doing his laundry lol.
27points

#24

“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore
My partner is called “90% man”. Making a pbj sandwich? Everything is put away except for the bread. Put the dishes away? Every cabinet is left open. Getting a drink of water but the milk is in front of the Brita? Leave the milk on the counter overnight.
26points

#25

“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore
Not quite disgusting, but it bothers me sooooooo badly. Whenever my husband spends any length of time in the kitchen, the dishcloth (the one for washing dishes with, not the towel) ends up a soggy crumpled mess in the sink. Why can’t he rinse it and hang it to dry on the handy bar thingy? No idea. I’ve just learned to accept it.
26points

#26

“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore
My boyfriend spits his loogies out of the window while driving so it clings to the rear passenger window.
He leaves used tissues in his jeans pockets for me to find while doing laundry, and worst of all snot rockets on the sidewalk when we walk the dogs, I’ve been hit with flying boogers before and I’ve threatened to leave him over it, He laughs but always apologized. He has always had issues with his sinuses, but it is gross. Still makes me gag after 12 years together.
26points

#27

“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore
His level of clean and my level of clean are VERY different .
26points

#28

“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore
My man picks his nose in front of me… it’s not attractive.
25points

#29

“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore
There are so many. The usual farting, belching, nose picking. However, in the last year he has begun to yawn so loud the neighbors know, (and we live in the country, so they’re not really close by) The coyotes howl. The owls answer. The squirrels scatter. We have a nut tree out back, I swear I have seen that tree drop several nuts after a yawn. And he does it several times a day.

It’s so annoying, I say nothing because he will take offense.
25points

#30

“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore
Snorting (clearing his sinuses). Not just when he has a cold but ALL THE TIME.

prometheuses_liver:
I think my husband's used to it but my dad and I sniffle and snort all the time. We have similar issues. I'm not sorry anymore, I know it's annoying but I have to live with it. All my life, as my dad took until he almost died of pneumonia to be taken real seriously, while no one seems to be able to identify the cause of my swollen sinuses and nasal drip. Had it since I was ten. In my 30's now. It blows. Sometimes literally.
25points

#31

“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore
Messy eating. Looked up once during dinner and there was piece of rice in his eyebrow. Never uses a napkin, eats like a 3 year old with salad dressing smeared around his mouth from too big a bite. After 40 years of marriage I no longer tell him he has food on his face, even when we eat out with others. Sure, it’s embarrassing in public and sometimes the people we are eating with will tell him he has food on his face during eating because it’s on there for the entire meal. One time our 14 year old nephew told him that he had sauce on his face and he was mildly angry for being told by a kid. He never even unfolds his napkin at the table.
23points

#32

“One Slice Of Bread”: 45 People Share Annoying Habits Of Their Spouses They Choose To Ignore
We will have a completely empty dishwasher and she will fill the sink with every dirty dish and leave it there.
21points

#33

No longer have a spouse or SO, but WHY do men NOT WASH THEIR HANDS after using the bathroom? It is so gross!
21points

#34

Not putting things back, leaving half empty drinks everywhere, and not putting his clean (and folded by yours truly) laundry away.
17points

#35

When my wife plugs in air fresheners, she always puts them in the bottom outlet so that it sticks up and blocks the other outlet from being used.
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15points

#36

We get ready in the bathroom together each morning. I’ve accepted it’s normal for her to drop a deuce in the toilet, and whilst doing this, pull out her tampon as I’m shaving or brushing my teeth. You just pretend like it’s not happening right in front of you.
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15points

#37

Farting. 😁. Day in day out. He does it purposefully and asks opinion about the smell and sound. It's disgusting. But what could I do. I love this man. And I know I have to deal with it for the rest of my life.
14points

#38

He uses q-tips to clean out his ears after his morning shower and will sometimes leave them out like a little gift for me to find when I walk in.
14points

#39

He has long hair and a beard. When he washes his hair there is hair all over the tub. When he trims his beard he leaves the clippings all over the sink. When I wash my hair or our daughter’s I clean up all the hair mess; wet, loose hairs everywhere really give me the ick. Unless I fuss at him about it he will leave it there. Grosses me out every time.
14points

#40

My partner is the most disgusting eater I’ve ever witnessed in my entire life. He inhales and slurps every single bite. He belches loudly, his mouth is open the whole time, he drops so much food trying to shove it all in at the speed of light. I can’t really describe it, the closest thing would be a pig eating slop from a trough maybe..? It’s really just an absolutely grotesque affair, so much that you lose your appetite for your own food. It’s so loud and it takes up so much space, audibly, visually, and emotionally. Going out to eat in a restaurant is extra embarrassing. It’s like nobody told him as a child that eating like a wild animal isn’t appropriate.

I’ve tried to politely mention that it’s a bit much (there’s really no tactful way to tell someone without offending them so I just should’ve never brought it up) and he’s naturally very defensive and he claims there’s noting wrong with how he eats. Okay 🙃

I try so hard to accept it but I struggle with every. Single. Bite. He. Takes.

He’s also a mouth-breather and he thinks this is normal as well. But it’s not. It’s gross. He’s always slack-jawed, just breathing his breath in my face and everyone else’s. Again, I’ve accepted it, but very grudgingly. I’ve suggested he had sinus issues but he’s defensive about that as well and says there’s nothing wrong with his mouth-breathing or his sinuses (there 100% is a problem with his sinuses).
13points
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