Love and Pet Peeves

Love and Pet Peeves

January 22nd, 2007 @ 8:33 am by Mrs. Hibiscus
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Mr. Hibiscus and I have been together over 6 years, and have lived together about half that time. For the past 3.5 months we’ve been long distance, and thus I have been living alone for 3.5 months. It’s given me a lot time to think about how much I love him and also, the little pet peeves that I don’t miss haha.

I really miss having him around the house so I can pretend I don’t know how to fix things (when in reality now that I’m alone I can fix everything just fine). I miss going on the computer together in the same room (him on his laptop, me on my desktop) and chatting online with each other while talking to each other. I miss hearing his keys while he struggles to open the door when he comes home from work, and the loud greeting he gives to the cats like they’re little people. I miss how we’d take turns cooking dinner for each other and washing the dishes. I miss how he always moves his feet back and forth right before he falls asleep. And most of all, I miss how he would kiss me on the cheek before he left for work in the morning and when he tucked me in at night. I miss pretending I was asleep and him pretending he didn’t know I was pretending I was asleep. I think about that every morning, and I can’t wait to finish school so I can be with him again.

Now, there are things I defnitely don’t miss. The number one thing I can definitely live without is his dirty socks. He would come home from work, working out, going out and sit down on the couch, turn on the television and throw his socks on the couch, floor or coffee table. Disgusting. He’d remember to put them with the rest of his laundry about half the time. But the socks still add up. I really hate to be a nag. I hate it. I like to ask once and that’s it. He just can’t seem to remember 100% of the time. Sigh. Now, is it the most horrible thing in the world? No. But, it’s nice living alone and sitting on a sock free couch. haha.

What is your favorite thing that your boyfriend/fiance/husband does that you can’t imagine living without? Also, what is the biggest pet peeve about your significant other that you can definitely live without?

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11 Responses to “Love and Pet Peeves”

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Jenny

Ewww socks! There are quite a few things that bug me … the biggest one is when he cleans he thinks he can put the garbage cans on the dinner (or any other table) to get them out of the way. The thought of it is just gross. I’ve solved that problem by doing the cleaning myself.

1/22/07 @ 9:14 am (reply)

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Jamie

One of my pet peeves about my fiance is how cold he keeps his room/house! I’m always freezing when I’m over there. He’ll turn on the heat for five minutes and then turn it off because “the room is too hot.” But I really can’t live without the hugs he gives me when my day was bad.

1/22/07 @ 9:40 am (reply)

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connie

my SO does the same exact thing! the socks drive me CRAZY!!!

1/22/07 @ 9:45 am (reply)

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Miss Blue Bear

I would definitely miss my FI’s kisses on my forehead at night right before I fall asleep, but I would not miss finding his used papertowels everywhere….if you find a tissue/paper towel lying around, you know he’s been there! But the funniest part is when I would confront him and he’d tell me he was going to “use it again”. Can someone please explain to me when they made papertowels “reusable”????

1/22/07 @ 9:56 am (reply)

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My boyfriend always has work earlier than I have classes, so when we’re not together I miss the way he comes back to lie in bed with me for 5 minutes to cuddle and chat before he leaves for work. I do not miss, however, the way he eats. Everything he eats is with his mouth open! He slurps cereal worse than anyone I knew…Ugh!

1/22/07 @ 10:29 am (reply)

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thistleorchid

It can be hard to find a pen in my house that hasn’t been taken apart - thankfully it is normally been put back together, but not always in working order. It’s that whole goign to an engineering school, he needs to see what’s on the inside making it work. He’s been in meetings and asked to do something, so he goes to pick up his pen and it’s in 20 pieces on the table. . .

But really, that’s about it. So I’m pretty thankful. I would totally miss the way he strokes my cheeck when we’re driving or just sitting on the couch. Once he did it and asked what was wrong because I didn’t smile at it, and apparently I always instinctually smile when he does it. I think I was just about asleep that time…

1/22/07 @ 10:39 am (reply)

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Miss Blueberry

Most annoying? The dishes! We don’t have a dishwasher (yay for college apartments!) and our deal is that he does trash and dishes, and I do all other chores (cleaning, vacuuming, whatever). But he’ll go without doing dishes for (no exaggeration) two weeks at a time. If I plead, he’ll wash a spoon so I can have a cup of yogurt, but he’ll go to great lengths to avoid washing dishes…even to the point that we’re drinking milk out of whiskey glasses, and using tupperware containers like bowls. Soooo annoying!

But I would miss him setting my morning alarm clock, and how when he comes in from smoking outside his nose and cheeks are so cold, and (I know this’ll make you girls jealous!) how he almost always puts his dirty clothes straight into the hamper.

1/22/07 @ 11:38 am (reply)

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twelvetigers

My FI had a sock problem too, but our cat EATS socks. Seriously, like a little puppy dog. He can destroy a pair (or one of a pair, because that’s all it takes for matching socks) in under a minute. And he’s sneaky too - he hides when he does it. So, if the FI wants to KEEP his socks, then he picks them up. But he still leaves them in little balls or inside out, and if he does the laundry he WASHES them that way. Now how clean can they get when they’re all wadded up? Sheesh.

He also sits in the recliner and rocks. And rocks and rocks and rocks. And it goes “creak, creak, creak” because it’s leather. It drives me bonkers. I’m like, “put out the footprop!” or whatever it’s called. Footrest? I dunno.

1/22/07 @ 12:55 pm (reply)

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Tea

my bf is so incredibly slow in the morning. if i say we’ll leave around 9:30, he’ll wake up at 9:15 to shower…and he takes long showers.

but i would definitely miss the way he kisses my forehead when we hug and how he’s always up for cuddling [i'm so freaking lucky]. i love the way his eyes light up when i call him my nickname for him or when i tell him how much i love him. he’s so adorable.

1/22/07 @ 1:08 pm (reply)

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Jenna

I hate hate hate hate hate when my fiance leaves his clothes on the bathroom floor….gross! he even reuses them sometimes

1/22/07 @ 1:44 pm (reply)

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grace

My FI is constantly making puns… I know this is silly, but I love it. He says so many ridiculous things that would never cross my mind that I just can’t help but laugh.

When we’re out driving somewhere, though, and we need to get gas, every time he leaves the car, he leaves the freaking door OPEN. It doesn’t matter if it’s freezing and windy and all the heat in the car is gone, or if it’s 99 degrees and the AC just started cooling the car down. He says it’s so he can get back in faster and open the door for a shorter amount of time, but I don’t know what the heck he’s talking about.

1/22/07 @ 3:09 pm (reply)