What Really Makes Women Mad at Their Husbands

Why choose to write about this at all, right? I mean, everybody knows what really ticks women off. Leaving the toilet seat up, squeezing the toohpaste from the wrong end or the middle, and wearing socks to bed, right? Well, maybe. But I got to thinking, and while I get irriatated about those things, it's more because I'm really irritated about something else and just use something minor like that instead of addressing the issue. So I decided to make a list of secret irritations that REALLY make women angry at their husbands that we won't usually talk about.

These are in no particular order. Vote in the poll at the bottom to see how many people share your #1 secret irritation-or are guilty of it!

1. Comparing us to your mother. We know you were around your Mom for about 18 years, while we've only had you for a bit, but we know we're not as good as she is. I mean, the woman's at least 20 years our senior. She's had a lot more practice! And if you don't like the way I make spaghetti, or pizza, or meatloaf, or banana bread, because it's "not like Mom makes it," TOUGH. It's how I make it, and we're not at your Momma's, now are we?
2. Leaving your dirty clothes BESIDE the hamper. Really? I mean, it's almost like you think we get bored and don't have enough work to do, so you're going to make some more for us. Thanks, but no thanks. I've got a full enough plate, and when I don't have something pressing to do, I DO have a life outside of taking care of you. And when I just leave them there for a few days, you don't do anything about it, and then complain when I do the laundry and your clothes are still dirty!
3. Putting your dark clothes in the whites. When I have the clothes sorted, and you mix them up, it is once again just making a lot more work for me. I have a pile you can dump your clothes in that's NOT sorted, thanks.
4. When you ask me where something is, and it's not my responsibility, but yours. No, I most likely will NOT know the location of your keys, where did you put them? Is it my job to keep track of all of your stuff, too? You never are any help when I ask you where you put my stuff.
5. When it's your turn to do the dishes, it's YOUR TURN. If you decide to wait for 3 days and there's a ton of dishes in the sink when you finally do them, and then when it's our turn we do them right away, and so we don't have as much to do, don't complain when it's your turn right away again.
6. We hate it when you don't do what you say you're going to do for a really long time, and so we wind up just doing it ourselves, and then you come along and say "I was going to do that, but thank-you so much honey. " We don't want to get mad at you because you're so sweet about it, but at the same time WHEN WERE YOU PLANNING ON DOING IT? It's only been sitting there for 3 days or so.
7. Almost as bad is when you say you're going to do a job, and then only do half of it. You take out the trash, but forget to replace the bag, or you hang the picture and leave your tools all over tarnation. Yes, you did what we asked, but you only did the half of it we specifically pointed out to you to do. You're a responsible big boy. Do the whole thing!
8. We are jealous. Not of your friends, but of your electronics. We do our best not to be and to use them with you, but we want your undivided attention occasionally. When you're home with us, we want you to be with us, not in some fantasy world. Make time for us, please!
9. You are the King of the house, and you know it, because I show you all the time. I rub your feet and your back, and I do little things to spoil you. But when you come to expect those little things, I feel like it's not appreciated as a gesture of love and appreciation, but it's more just expected now. And when I tell you I don't want you to spoil me in return, I'M LYING, and I just want you to surprise me so that I don't feel guilty about it.
10. I. AM. NOT. YOUR. MOTHER. You are a grown man, and I am your wife. I do not like you needing- or at least wanting- a mother. A wife will help take care of you and the house, it's true, but nowhere in the description does it say I have to be an alarm clock, or a lunch lady, or the person who makes sure you have everything before you leave in the morning, or the person who makes sure you have enough clothes and underwear, or the person who cleans your room and puts away your laundry. That is what a Mom does, and usually, those things aren't all done for a teenager even. Yes, you have somebody taking care of you again, but being in a mothering role towards you is really, really awkward. We're not Jocasta and Oedipus you know!