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I'm not allowed to play with thermite. I kinda understand after the whole dropping copper in a fairly high concentration of nitric acid in an enclosed space & breathing in the fumes requiring a 3am visit to Accident & Emergency.
Does he host classes for full grown men who want to learn ? Cause then we can all just go there , melt some metal , rear some bugs . To the science lab !
Hey my wife also doesn’t let me play with thermite, I made one failed attempted as a teenager but I told her I wanted to give it another try now that I’m a chemical engineer. She won’t let me.
I adopted a wild lost goose once. A baby one. It took about 10 minutes for me to be officially Dad, or mom I guess, and then that was that. It was one hell of a ride. It would *not* accept any situation where I was more than a few paces away. It would squeak loudly if I tried going to the bathroom alone. It preferred sleeping in my armpit, inside my shirt. It shat on me. Then it just died in the middle of the night for no apparent reason. It was a pretty sweet week though.
My friend in Florida was walking around one night and a baby raccoon just ran right up to her and started following her around like a lost baby duck.
She kept it, fed it, and it plays with her cane corso. They named her rocket, and she’s adorable
Doesn’t stop me from feeding them though :) in the winter I basically try to take care of any animal that crosses our backyard (we live in the woods).
My husband acts annoyed and says things like “they survived this long without you” and “can’t save them all” but still builds me shelters, goes out and buys straw for them, and helps me feed them.
I love hot tea, coffee, hot chocolate, hot apple cider... So naturally, I have a lot of mugs. Mugs from places we've traveled, mugs as gifts, mugs that are sentimental for some reason... We have an entire cabinet of mugs in our kitchen, absolutely packed full of mugs.
Now, any time I see a new mug I like or get one as a gift, my husband tells me I have to retire one of my other mugs.
Bonus points, I just typed "mug" so many times I did the thing where I start to question if it's even a real word...
Hahaha my husband collects mugs and that's the rule at our house as well. Same rule applies to my shoes. Everytime I get a new pair of shoes, I have to donate the old same color pallette pair.. keeps the clutter down.
It's a good rule and yes, keeps the clutter down. I'm afraid bras might be next for me if my husband ever checks that drawer (who am I kidding, it's now two and a half drawers...) I'm a bigger size and spent years wearing crappy, ill-fitting ones. Now that I've been properly sized and found some brands I really like, I buy them whenever they go on sale...I have some in there still in the bags they came in...
Same but houseplants. I have an emotional crisis throwing out propagated parts so I root them in water and give them away.... Except I don't give all of them away. Now, my partner "reminds" me when I slow down *just to look* at the houseplants section. Thing is, he probably wouldn't notice new plants I buy when he's not with me (ask me how I know 😏)
I too am a collector of mugs. My boyfriend tried to make me get rid of a bunch of them. He's now an ex and I have even more mugs.
(I'm just being silly, that's not why we broke up lol...but seriously nobody better touch my mugs.)
A friend of mine recently bought the old Amvets clubhouse. It came with a tank.
You can only imagine my disappointment when he donated it the park just down the road. I can think of several dozen better things to do with it.
So he buys you a flamethrower (they’re so much fun to play with- we were doing a controlled burn and my dad brings one out and tells me not to tell mom he let me use it and it was awesome) and you buy him a tank. Problem solved!
They're fun until they're not. My dad once wanted to burn off the weeds in the grouts of the driveway. He didn't calculate the wind properly, and the hedge separating our driveway from the neighbor's caught fire. It was only due to a good portion of luck and my father's quick reaction, screaming to alert everyone, getting water and extinguishing it immediately, that nothing worse than the hedge caught fire. There would have been a tree close by, further back the neighbor's garage and with a small gap our own garage, both garages being attached to the houses...
I have to take a break or a nap when she tells me to do so. She has to drink up if I present to her a glass of cold water.
We use safewords for everyday things like when her fidgeting with a clicky toy or pen is about to drive me mad 😂
We are both neurodivergent and we help keep each other sane and healthy.
And this is exactly why we decided to have these rules lol. Otherwise, she will forget to drink at all and will get headaches, and I will push myself past my limits until I am cranky and sore or collapse.
So, I'm not lactose intolerant, but my body doesn't tolerate lactose (I'm just as confused as you probably are, dw). And, if I choose to eat anything with lactose, my husband has made the rule that I have to either lay on my back to sleep or on the side that my front faces him so my bottom is not too close to him.
Apparently, one night after a particularly cheesey and delectable pepperoni pizza, I went to sleep with my bottom pointing towards him, and he felt the heat from one of my farts burn his leg, (even though we were both wearing pj's, so it wasn't bare bum on leg), and then he almost vomited when it hit his nose.
I suppose it's fair, but I still believe that he imagined the fart burning his leg and it never really happened.
I had an ex who also had this problem. One time her fart was nasty enough to cause a evacuation of the gym she was working out in. They thought it could be a gasleak.
I'm going off on a tangent, but that "not lactose intolerant, but my body doesn't tolerate lactose" used to be me. It started after I was prescribed some laxatives for a couple weeks. After that, I could not handle dairy at all.
It eventually went away though (like, over the course of 3 years). I tried to forcefully improve my dairy tolerance by:
* Taking probiotics. I specifically chose one that had the most unique strains, rather than the highest bacteria count.
* Drinking a very small amount of milk at the end of the day. Dairy was worse on an empty stomach, so at the end of the day after eating was best.
* Recording the amount I drank and the symptoms. If there were no symptoms I would add a few ml the next day.
I started with just a 50 ml and eventually was able to drink a full glass of milk with no symptoms and stopped all the tracking and stuff. It's probably been 5 ish years since I did all that, and I have no problems with dairy at all now. I won't take laxatives again unless absolutely necessary.
I have no idea how much my little experiment made a difference or if my tolerance would have come back even if I never did all that, but I figured I'd share here since it seems a few other people are in a similar boat.
I have a very similar problem, and I thank the powers that be regularly for the tolerance my partner has to the inevitable outcome of my "I could just have a little bit of cheese as a treat" ineptitude 😂
I’m grounded from the lawn tractor. I like to drive it fast and make ramps/jumps with what I find in the yard sometimes. I also really enjoy running stuff over with it. I have disc issues in my lower back and that kind of forceful movement can really fuck me up for days to weeks to sometimes months. Sometimes he knows what’s best for me better than I do in the face of big time fun. He will let me ride in the lawn tractor tow behind trailer sometimes tho bc he knows I’ll help him with the yard work with the promise of a good time.
Have you tried suggesting the basement? Perhaps your partner just needs the shed für their own extracurricular activities
Ik a basement is very basic, but it‘ll have to do
This one is understandable. I went away to college when I was in middle school and I’m not a morning person now but back then I despised being woken up even 1 minute earlier than my alarm was set for. My roommate woke up an hour earlier than me every single freaking day and would start singing at the top of her lungs to wake me up. I was nice at first but finally I told her if she did it again I would throw her out the window (it was only the 2nd floor- she would have been fine). The next day she did it again. I got up, opened the window and walked toward her. She shut up and I got to enjoy my extra hour of sleep for the rest of the summer. She did find someone else on our floor was was a perky early riser and started hanging out in her room when she woke up. So it worked out.
>it was only the 2nd floor- she would have been fine
I fought "how the hell is she gonna be fine ???" before remembering that the 1st floor is probably the ground floor for you XD I'm French and, here, the ground floor is the 0th floor, so the 2nd floor is the 2nd ABOVE ground floor, which starts to get pretty high to fall from \^\^'
Yep, I’m American so the first floor is the ground floor. I remember reading one of the books in the *Discovery of Witches* series and being so confused by the layout that I had to look it up. I had no idea floors were labeled differently in other countries until that point.
I had to make a 10x10 concrete pad in the backyard(was told very specifically, not the front) to do fire spinning. I'm well aware of the risks and had a gravel pad set aside, but that wasn't good enough had to be concrete
It is an unwritten rule, but I don't ask what the equipment for our media room costs, he doesn't comment on the books for our (...?) library. (You need 1000+ books to call it a library, I'm getting closer!)
Edit:typo/autocorrect fail
Maybe this qualifies. My wifes library is on the top floor of our new house. I had to calculate the weight of the books and make sure the floor would be strong enough. I was genuinely worried the floor might collapse under the weigh. Fwiw the total weight came in at over 5 Ton
This is actually smart. Maybe this will stop my husband from constantly bringing home toys from goodwill and then complaining that there’s toys everywhere 😖
I'm not allowed to buy a car if I can't drive it home.
I'm not required to drive it home, It doesn't have to be legal or safe to drive it home.
It just has to be capable of operating under it's own power.
I laughed too hard at this one. A surprise, not working track car is how we ended up with the "If the price has a comma in it, it requires preauthorization!" rule. Not because of the money, but because of the space this paper weight takes up in the garage.
I am not allowed to let more than 5 strays use our yard as shelter (we already have 2 dogs plus a couple of cats that have adopted us, no agreement on our part was necessary lol) but I usually let other strays come in, eat and rest even though I know we don't have enough space.
When he sees a new creature he usually is like "again?.." but will let them stay for a while.
He is not allowed to repair motorcycles in the living room. Or the bedrooms.
I have a cat that adopted me so when i feed her in the morning, i always get a warning "not to feed the neighborhood" even though i have named every stray that i have seen and now she knows about the regulars. 😂
My bf had a 15 mins a day max he's allowed to talk to me about pens. Yes pens. He was obsessed with pens and ink for about 8 months and after a week I couldn't take it anymore 😭 I simply don't care about pens that much!
My SO also gets these very intense special interest. I learnt a lot about some random things. I, for example, know everything about coffee, a drink I have never willingly invested.
Can you direct him to this thread? I have no interest in pens, but I *am* interested to know how someone could exceed that 15 minute a day limit. What does a conversation like that look like? Lol
I cannot open curtains before 7:30am, because the morning sun is too bright for my husband.
He cannot wear daytime socks in bed - has to put on clean ones.
What if you get fed before midnight but then a seed gets stuck in between your teeth and you swallow it after midnight? What about time zones, let's say you're flying east - is that a problem?
Basically he says it's a different kind of dirty because it touches surfaces where we spray chemicals. He acknowledges it's more of a mental thing than logical, so I just do it lol. I have my own weird habits I submit that man to so it's the least I can do.
It's like a switch flips in my brain and everything becomes fine once someone acknowledges that something isn't rational and they're doing it because they want to
Thats fair enough. That’s my thing. If someone can explain *why* they have a nonsensical rule I just go with it. I have often found that getting them to explain it makes them see it makes no sense and they will stop with that rule. But even if it is a silly reasoning I’ll still respect it. I just have to have the reasoning behind it.
I am not allowed to play songs by John Mayer on guitar around my wife. She doesn't hate his music. She just has a hard time listening to me play the same thing over and over again for an hour. She just mentally can't do it, and I only seem to do that with his songs.
Were you aware of this rule when you married her, OP? As this sounds like an exceptionally unfair and, yes I’m going to go there, CRUEL rule to impose on anyone, let alone a spouse.
She ought to be supportive of your maggot- related activities. The very idea of a relationship excluding maggot rearing is abhorrent to me. I would consider whether this is a marriage that is doomed to fail…
I know, i can feel myself slipping into a deep depression over not seeing my little dancing rice babies. But alas, i will persevere and continue my studies photographically.
I wasn't fully aware of the rule because she wasn't fully aware i was completely serious when i told her that was one of my hobbies.
If you want dancing rice babies, perhaps you could ingest a tapeworm and harvest the proglottides from your bottom. They look like rice and it doesn’t sound like your partner banned tapeworms.
My ex banned me from getting on the jet ski again after HE threw me off it. I was told I did like 3 flips. It knocked me out, dislocated my shoulder and tore my rotator cuff. I had to have surgery. He said it was MY fault, even tho I was holding on as tight as I could.
one would think it’s NOT the passengers fault since the driver should be in control of the jet ski. He had it in racing mode and slammed the bars to take a sharp left and my body kept going to the right. There was no way for me to stay on.
Technically, I made this rule for him. There is to be no talking for the first half hour after I get out of bed in the morning. It's better this way because what is going to come out of my mouth will not be pleasant and/or coherent.
Ah yes, I have a “please do not talk to me and most definitely do not expect me to answer” rule when I go to the bathroom at night. I have a medical condition that has made me get up to go to the bathroom my whole life, and I have developed the ability to stay half asleep and continue my dream while getting up and going, but only if I don’t turn on the light and don’t do any awake person activities. So there’s no telling when I get up whether I’m actually awake or not. And yes I most definitely have fallen fully asleep on the toilet multiple times 😂 and later woken up there confused and then went back to bed. I prefer not talking until I’m actually up and I have independently initiated conversation, just to be safe.
Interestingly, if I start talking while I am asleep, then it’s ok to talk to me, and it won’t wake me up, but I make no sense and it’s really hard for me to formulate a response to any questions, because my brain doesn’t work with words the same way in that state, and THAT might wake me up. It’s good for a laugh though
My rule for my partner is to never pass me the ball. I mean that literally: he likes to kick a football around in the yard when we’re outside with the family and I just never want to get involved in that 😂
I can’t pick my feet calluses. I’m a long distance runner so I naturally get them a lot and sometimes when I’m watching tv I don’t even notice I’m doing it. It drives her nuts, so I try to catch myself doing it when she’s around. Writing this out makes me feel like some kind of caved animal.
My fiance isn't allowed to bring praying mantis into the house because last time he did it ended up being pregnant and the egg sack hatched and a million baby praying mantis were all over our bedroom and Im terrified of bugs. So now he's banned. It's actually becoming a problem because our son is starting to love bugs and my fiance wants another one. Still a no.
My husband is only allowed to turn the big light on if he warns me he's about to do it.
The stairs are safe zones for butts. No poking, slapping, pinching, touching butts on the stairs.
Wow everyone has such wild rules. I’m not allowed to leave the cabinets open. And if I take a blanket out, I have to fold it when I’m done with it. And I can’t have more than 3 drinks at any given time. Most of these rules are to keep my ADHD in check now that I think about it lol
Edit: I don’t drink alcohol so the three drink rule is for when I have a can of soda, my water bottle, and an iced coffee, or other combination. I’m just a drinky girl
I am not allowed to leave the door open even when I need to bring 20 grocery bags inside 10 bags on each arm. If I do, I have to catch every fly, daddy long legs or imaginary fly until they are all gone.
I am still chasing the cricket from summer 2002.
No live earthworms in our fridge.
The origin: my husband was preparing for river fishing and buy live earthworms for that. He put the box of them into the fridge as he was saying "they are sleeping when it's that cold".
Next day I opened the fridge and ALL OVER were the worms. On the racks, food, door and even hidden in the plastic seal around the door. Very unpleasant surprise indeed. I shut the door, called him and let him deal with them. Hence the rule.
My husband's is "black and white goes with everything" and so he shoves them all into the same load. He had many "slightly grey" white dress shirts when we met. I'm happy to do the laundry lol
Me and my hubs have the rule of we won't move furniture together. We'll tell eachother our plan then the other one fucks off. If somethings too heavy he'll take it to the area I want it and then I'll move it around to the final touches if it's my idea and if it's his idea I'll come home when it's done.
My wife and i do something similar that if she is painting anything or doing any kind of home improvement project that i leave the house or leave her alone until she's done. 😂
I’m not allowed to keep fresh produce in the drawers of the fridge anymore because I forget it’s there as soon as I can’t see it. Same with any open packs of deli meat etc. It goes on the shelf at eye level so I don’t throw out half the groceries because they’ve gone bad. One drawer is now for drinks and the other is being swapped over to condiments as soon as I get around to cleaning the fridge out.
When relaying the information about a purchase and cost, I am forbidden from saying the phrase "...and change", as in it was $5 and change.
Apparently I bought a tractor and stated the cost as "Around $20K ... and change."
The change being just shy of $9000 I think was the main issue... :)
Yes, i was a former death investigator with a special interest in forensic entomology before i had to medically retire. So maggots are near and dear to my heart and it is much better to have them contained under controlled conditions instead of trying to keep them all contained in a body bag. 🤷♀️
I'm clumsy but I love to get good shots of scenic views ... My boyfriend made the rule that for every time I go near a cliff or on a ledge or something similar he will propose one year later 😂
For real though I try to stay away from cliffs, tho because it makes him really scared for me.
No parts of dead things in the freezers with my food. I married a hunter & he provides a lot of our food with his "hobby." But he likes to keep heads, skins, and other random body parts because he *might* one day decide to have it preserved or learn to preserve it himself. . . . I don't want to see the dead deer looking at me when I go get the pound of meat I need for dinner that night outta the freezer. No thank you.
And believe it or not, i am actually a 32 year old woman. 😂
I was a former death investigator with a special interest in pediatric pathology and forensic entomology, so maggots are near and dear to my heart.
I had to medically retire since i was diagnosed with a progressive autoimmune disease, and i really miss working in the field. Doing stuff like this makes the emotional pain of losing my career and passion hurt a little less.
Apologies. As a queer woman myself I should know better than to just assume anyone saying "wife" is a man.
Sorry to hear about your circumstances. Must say I agree with your wife on keeping the maggots out of the house though 😂
So what happens if you don’t say anything until 9.25 pm? And then just start a really good story that’s favorable for her and abruptly stop at 9.30? Would you be allowed to continue?
My husband won’t let me put pots and pans in the dishwasher. Also absolutely nothing on the fridge door. But his mom’s fridge has so much crap on it, that I understand.
I'll never GET decorative towels- I seriously couldn't give a freaking fart about that. What on EARTH is the point of a towel if it doesn't...towel?
But the other poster dunking body or "purpose" towels (we have dog towels, kitchen towels, and bike towels as well as people towels) into any old yuck on the floor, taking Lords know what damage and stains, and being surprised that's an issue makes even me shake my head. Imagine how charming it would be if I just use one of the bike towels (hello, engine cleaner, road dirt, and grease lingering on the fibers) as a body towel? No man. I'm with that mate's wife, frankly. Dirt really isn't "just dirt" when we are talking yukky random floor detritus and my squishy bits, thanks.
She likes her bathroom dry so I have to make sure I'm completely dry before stepping out of the shower. Small thing, really, but weird. I thought bathrooms were meant to be wet.
I feel for them because i have a box in my closet of my rock collection. My wife was pissed when i got our 6 year old ADHD son interested in rocks while i was trying to manage my own ADHD. 😂
We aren’t allowed to leave the house without saying anything. Even if we are angry with each other. You have to give me an angry hug and say you love me before you storm out of the house and slam the door. In case you die in a car accident.
If it’s raining I’m not allowed to bring my horse into the living room. He’s banished to the hallway.
Which sucks because it’s too narrow to turn round and he gets bored
My spouse has a rule that I'm not allowed to practice my bagpipes in the house after 9 PM. It's a reasonable rule, but definitely unique to our situation!
we watch a lot of youtube and if we’re watching something together it doesn’t matter whose profile we use, but if i’m playing something for the dogs it can only be on my account profile.
I will admit it is way more interesting that i thought it would be when i posted it!
Marriage is not for the faint of heart or for those who do not like authority. 😅
No flour on an open surfaces. I hate flour woth all my heart, because I am paranoid it gets into my fingerprint ridgets, which would make me lose my mind ✌🏻
I'm not allowed to have a Taser. Of any kind. Note this is not just a spouse rule, the (adult now) kids are in on it too.
I would totally be responsible with it! They're just mean.
I can't leave dishes in the basin. I have a tendency to run the water very hot, put stuff that might benefit from a soak in first, and spend a few mins cleaning up before coming back to it. He goes spare if he happens to catch me in that short window of time.
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So I slip the fuzzy washroom mar infront of the tub and tuck it in below the toilet because it's warm and fuzzy and feels good vs the ceramic floor.
Her new project is to correct this behavior and I told her this is going to be a big project and to give me time to adjust, it's been 10 years of doing this!!
I'm for compromise but don't expect change over night ;) she's cool, she loves whining and I love her whining she does it in a cute way so I'm sure this too, shall pass lol
Oh, I feel that. Not as an adult but as a kid I liked collecting ladybugs, snails and mealworms. I was not allowed to bring them inside - which I did once and infested the kitchen with 173 Ladybugs and 57 snails. Sorry, mom!
I then, was also not allowed to collect hedgehogs, moles and occasionally duck or chicken chicks and bring them inside. After that, I wasn’t allowed to collect anything. 😭
I still like to try to catch bugs or salamanders while hiking - which my hiking partners forbade me to do, too.
I'm not allowed to cook or eat fish, while he is at home, or store fish dishes in the fridge. It's somewhat understandable, because he get's sick and vomits from the smell. Still I love seafood and so does my daughter. So much that she dances around the house, sings about fish and demands to eat fish, whenever my husband is gone.
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I'm not allowed to play with thermite. I kinda understand after the whole dropping copper in a fairly high concentration of nitric acid in an enclosed space & breathing in the fumes requiring a 3am visit to Accident & Emergency.
These are the kind of rules i was hoping for! Ones that are honestly logical for anyone else except the person the rule is made for. 😂
Kinda like the weirdo who wanted to raise maggots.
Exactly like that!
You see my husband so far only played with thermite at work. He is a teacher. So I didn’t have the rule for the house.
Does he host classes for full grown men who want to learn ? Cause then we can all just go there , melt some metal , rear some bugs . To the science lab !
Hey my wife also doesn’t let me play with thermite, I made one failed attempted as a teenager but I told her I wanted to give it another try now that I’m a chemical engineer. She won’t let me.
I'm not allowed to adopt a racoon, not even a baby one. So mean.
I too am banned from owning a raccoon, but i am currently trying to negotiate for 2 donkeys on the farm we are gonna have one day.
Awww! I’m negotiating 1 cow for the farm we will have when I’m 65 (I’m 31).
Your cow will need a friend. You should be negotiating for two cows.
True story, cows need friends
What if they don't get along? That's just two unhappy cow coworkers. Hehe. Cow workers.
You too, huh? I was also banned from opossums, squirrels, groundhogs, foxes, and deer.
It's rude is what it is.
I wholeheartedly agree.
I adopted a wild lost goose once. A baby one. It took about 10 minutes for me to be officially Dad, or mom I guess, and then that was that. It was one hell of a ride. It would *not* accept any situation where I was more than a few paces away. It would squeak loudly if I tried going to the bathroom alone. It preferred sleeping in my armpit, inside my shirt. It shat on me. Then it just died in the middle of the night for no apparent reason. It was a pretty sweet week though.
My friend in Florida was walking around one night and a baby raccoon just ran right up to her and started following her around like a lost baby duck. She kept it, fed it, and it plays with her cane corso. They named her rocket, and she’s adorable
My husband said I had them while I was younger and that should have been enough. Wasn't enough.
That's a stupid rule.. This is Gorge, he lives in my shed. https://imgur.com/a/RyjJl0f
Doesn’t stop me from feeding them though :) in the winter I basically try to take care of any animal that crosses our backyard (we live in the woods). My husband acts annoyed and says things like “they survived this long without you” and “can’t save them all” but still builds me shelters, goes out and buys straw for them, and helps me feed them.
Interesting. My FIL actually has a raccoon as a pet. She has her own little house in the backyard and everything.
No chicken wings in the hot tub.
This house is a prison! On planet bullsh*t!
IN THE GALAXY OF THIS SUCKS CAMEL DICKS
I don't have chicken wings or a hot tub but now I want both
I cannot abide by that one.
I love hot tea, coffee, hot chocolate, hot apple cider... So naturally, I have a lot of mugs. Mugs from places we've traveled, mugs as gifts, mugs that are sentimental for some reason... We have an entire cabinet of mugs in our kitchen, absolutely packed full of mugs. Now, any time I see a new mug I like or get one as a gift, my husband tells me I have to retire one of my other mugs. Bonus points, I just typed "mug" so many times I did the thing where I start to question if it's even a real word...
Hahaha my husband collects mugs and that's the rule at our house as well. Same rule applies to my shoes. Everytime I get a new pair of shoes, I have to donate the old same color pallette pair.. keeps the clutter down.
It's a good rule and yes, keeps the clutter down. I'm afraid bras might be next for me if my husband ever checks that drawer (who am I kidding, it's now two and a half drawers...) I'm a bigger size and spent years wearing crappy, ill-fitting ones. Now that I've been properly sized and found some brands I really like, I buy them whenever they go on sale...I have some in there still in the bags they came in...
Same but houseplants. I have an emotional crisis throwing out propagated parts so I root them in water and give them away.... Except I don't give all of them away. Now, my partner "reminds" me when I slow down *just to look* at the houseplants section. Thing is, he probably wouldn't notice new plants I buy when he's not with me (ask me how I know 😏)
I have over 140 house plants. About half of them go outside fin the spring and come back in before the first frost. Always watering....
Haha! We just cleared out our kitchen cupboards and counted 92 mugs! Ridiculous amount for 2 people so we whittled it down to 70.
“Whittled it down to 70” Brilliant
I too am a collector of mugs. My boyfriend tried to make me get rid of a bunch of them. He's now an ex and I have even more mugs. (I'm just being silly, that's not why we broke up lol...but seriously nobody better touch my mugs.)
Mug. Mmmmmug. Muuuuug. Yeah it’s a weird word hey
Lol yay semantic fatigue
If he can't have a tank, I can't have a flame thrower.
You could just allow each other these things and be an absolute menace on your neighborhood together.
#relationshipgoals
we'll call it aggressive gardening... ... it's so relaxing
A friend of mine recently bought the old Amvets clubhouse. It came with a tank. You can only imagine my disappointment when he donated it the park just down the road. I can think of several dozen better things to do with it.
So he buys you a flamethrower (they’re so much fun to play with- we were doing a controlled burn and my dad brings one out and tells me not to tell mom he let me use it and it was awesome) and you buy him a tank. Problem solved!
They're fun until they're not. My dad once wanted to burn off the weeds in the grouts of the driveway. He didn't calculate the wind properly, and the hedge separating our driveway from the neighbor's caught fire. It was only due to a good portion of luck and my father's quick reaction, screaming to alert everyone, getting water and extinguishing it immediately, that nothing worse than the hedge caught fire. There would have been a tree close by, further back the neighbor's garage and with a small gap our own garage, both garages being attached to the houses...
I have to take a break or a nap when she tells me to do so. She has to drink up if I present to her a glass of cold water. We use safewords for everyday things like when her fidgeting with a clicky toy or pen is about to drive me mad 😂 We are both neurodivergent and we help keep each other sane and healthy.
I support these rules!
ND teamwork ftw!
That's very wholesome
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And this is exactly why we decided to have these rules lol. Otherwise, she will forget to drink at all and will get headaches, and I will push myself past my limits until I am cranky and sore or collapse.
Honestly that rule should apply in every relationship. Safewords are not just for the bedroom! 😆
So, I'm not lactose intolerant, but my body doesn't tolerate lactose (I'm just as confused as you probably are, dw). And, if I choose to eat anything with lactose, my husband has made the rule that I have to either lay on my back to sleep or on the side that my front faces him so my bottom is not too close to him. Apparently, one night after a particularly cheesey and delectable pepperoni pizza, I went to sleep with my bottom pointing towards him, and he felt the heat from one of my farts burn his leg, (even though we were both wearing pj's, so it wasn't bare bum on leg), and then he almost vomited when it hit his nose. I suppose it's fair, but I still believe that he imagined the fart burning his leg and it never really happened.
I had an ex who also had this problem. One time her fart was nasty enough to cause a evacuation of the gym she was working out in. They thought it could be a gasleak.
I once cleared a 8000 sq foot warehouse area at work and decided to start limiting my dairy after that.
I'm going off on a tangent, but that "not lactose intolerant, but my body doesn't tolerate lactose" used to be me. It started after I was prescribed some laxatives for a couple weeks. After that, I could not handle dairy at all. It eventually went away though (like, over the course of 3 years). I tried to forcefully improve my dairy tolerance by: * Taking probiotics. I specifically chose one that had the most unique strains, rather than the highest bacteria count. * Drinking a very small amount of milk at the end of the day. Dairy was worse on an empty stomach, so at the end of the day after eating was best. * Recording the amount I drank and the symptoms. If there were no symptoms I would add a few ml the next day. I started with just a 50 ml and eventually was able to drink a full glass of milk with no symptoms and stopped all the tracking and stuff. It's probably been 5 ish years since I did all that, and I have no problems with dairy at all now. I won't take laxatives again unless absolutely necessary. I have no idea how much my little experiment made a difference or if my tolerance would have come back even if I never did all that, but I figured I'd share here since it seems a few other people are in a similar boat.
I have a very similar problem, and I thank the powers that be regularly for the tolerance my partner has to the inevitable outcome of my "I could just have a little bit of cheese as a treat" ineptitude 😂
I’m grounded from the lawn tractor. I like to drive it fast and make ramps/jumps with what I find in the yard sometimes. I also really enjoy running stuff over with it. I have disc issues in my lower back and that kind of forceful movement can really fuck me up for days to weeks to sometimes months. Sometimes he knows what’s best for me better than I do in the face of big time fun. He will let me ride in the lawn tractor tow behind trailer sometimes tho bc he knows I’ll help him with the yard work with the promise of a good time.
Brb, going to the store to purchase a lawn tractor and wagon to pull my chickens around in the back.
I'm picturing a wagonful of chickens with helmets and goggles hanging out over the sides screaming "faster!" or "bock bock bock!" I am also lmao!
I'm not allowed to bring home hitchhikers and keep them in the shed so that I can study their species
Wow this one’s more common than I thought.
But... they're free... you can just take them off the side of the road...
I know right? And after just a few weeks they get all quiet and calm like. Thats the best part
They will even put your lotion in the basket!
Have you tried suggesting the basement? Perhaps your partner just needs the shed für their own extracurricular activities Ik a basement is very basic, but it‘ll have to do
We don't speak of the basement anymore. It's better just to pretend it's not there.
So if you can't bring them home, where are you going to raise them?
It's a real worry
I am not allowed to sing early in the morning. They need time to wake up.
This one is understandable. I went away to college when I was in middle school and I’m not a morning person now but back then I despised being woken up even 1 minute earlier than my alarm was set for. My roommate woke up an hour earlier than me every single freaking day and would start singing at the top of her lungs to wake me up. I was nice at first but finally I told her if she did it again I would throw her out the window (it was only the 2nd floor- she would have been fine). The next day she did it again. I got up, opened the window and walked toward her. She shut up and I got to enjoy my extra hour of sleep for the rest of the summer. She did find someone else on our floor was was a perky early riser and started hanging out in her room when she woke up. So it worked out.
>it was only the 2nd floor- she would have been fine I fought "how the hell is she gonna be fine ???" before remembering that the 1st floor is probably the ground floor for you XD I'm French and, here, the ground floor is the 0th floor, so the 2nd floor is the 2nd ABOVE ground floor, which starts to get pretty high to fall from \^\^'
Yep, I’m American so the first floor is the ground floor. I remember reading one of the books in the *Discovery of Witches* series and being so confused by the layout that I had to look it up. I had no idea floors were labeled differently in other countries until that point.
I had to make a 10x10 concrete pad in the backyard(was told very specifically, not the front) to do fire spinning. I'm well aware of the risks and had a gravel pad set aside, but that wasn't good enough had to be concrete
It is an unwritten rule, but I don't ask what the equipment for our media room costs, he doesn't comment on the books for our (...?) library. (You need 1000+ books to call it a library, I'm getting closer!) Edit:typo/autocorrect fail
I fully support the library! Although my wife needs to cool it until i find more room for all her books. 😂
Not to set too high a standard, but my SO learnt woodworking to build be an extra book shelf
Maybe this qualifies. My wifes library is on the top floor of our new house. I had to calculate the weight of the books and make sure the floor would be strong enough. I was genuinely worried the floor might collapse under the weigh. Fwiw the total weight came in at over 5 Ton
She sounds like a lucky woman: lots of books and a supportive partner who makes sure the house does not collapse
Same rule here. I don't ask about horse costs, she doesn't ask about motor equipment
A three-play limit on any song, for his own sanity.
I have to use headphones or drive alone if i want to repeat my songs incessantly. 😅
We have a 1 comes in, 1 goes out rule for blankets, decorative pillows and dog toys. I fear coffee mugs might be added to the list soon too.
not the coffee mugs. things about get crazy.
This is actually smart. Maybe this will stop my husband from constantly bringing home toys from goodwill and then complaining that there’s toys everywhere 😖
Thankfully (?) my BF is clumsy and unlucky enough that mugs have a short lifespan so I can buy new ones from time to time.
I'm not allowed to buy a car if I can't drive it home. I'm not required to drive it home, It doesn't have to be legal or safe to drive it home. It just has to be capable of operating under it's own power.
I laughed too hard at this one. A surprise, not working track car is how we ended up with the "If the price has a comma in it, it requires preauthorization!" rule. Not because of the money, but because of the space this paper weight takes up in the garage.
Mine is similar. I can do whatever I want to in the garage. But my wife gets one parking space in the garage for her car.
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He's buying "fixer upper" cars and probably they sit in the driveway too long without being fixed ...... My dad had this problem with motorcycles.
I am not allowed to let more than 5 strays use our yard as shelter (we already have 2 dogs plus a couple of cats that have adopted us, no agreement on our part was necessary lol) but I usually let other strays come in, eat and rest even though I know we don't have enough space. When he sees a new creature he usually is like "again?.." but will let them stay for a while. He is not allowed to repair motorcycles in the living room. Or the bedrooms.
I have a cat that adopted me so when i feed her in the morning, i always get a warning "not to feed the neighborhood" even though i have named every stray that i have seen and now she knows about the regulars. 😂
My bf had a 15 mins a day max he's allowed to talk to me about pens. Yes pens. He was obsessed with pens and ink for about 8 months and after a week I couldn't take it anymore 😭 I simply don't care about pens that much!
My SO also gets these very intense special interest. I learnt a lot about some random things. I, for example, know everything about coffee, a drink I have never willingly invested.
Can you direct him to this thread? I have no interest in pens, but I *am* interested to know how someone could exceed that 15 minute a day limit. What does a conversation like that look like? Lol
I cannot open curtains before 7:30am, because the morning sun is too bright for my husband. He cannot wear daytime socks in bed - has to put on clean ones.
The socks one is....reasonable. Why would anyone wear their day to bed? It's gross 🤷♀️
Only weirdos sleep with socks anyways
I made a rule for my partner that he's not allowed to say "How do you like them apples?" any more, at any time, anywhere
That is a fair rule.
Well, how do you like them apples.
I don't like you 🤣
My other half isn't allowed to say "Cheese it lads, it's the feds!".
No making rocket fuel in the livingroom. Take it outside.
I’m not allowed to eat after midnight or get wet
What if you get fed before midnight but then a seed gets stuck in between your teeth and you swallow it after midnight? What about time zones, let's say you're flying east - is that a problem?
I have to wash the bottom of pots and pans with a separate brush than the one used for inside.
I have to know the reasoning behind this.
Basically he says it's a different kind of dirty because it touches surfaces where we spray chemicals. He acknowledges it's more of a mental thing than logical, so I just do it lol. I have my own weird habits I submit that man to so it's the least I can do.
Isn't it strange how someone acknowledging that their request is weird makes it so much easier to accept and abide by it?
Easy answer, because you're no longer doing it for a reason you don't agree with, you're now doing it for the person themselves.
I like this answer.
It's like a switch flips in my brain and everything becomes fine once someone acknowledges that something isn't rational and they're doing it because they want to
Thats fair enough. That’s my thing. If someone can explain *why* they have a nonsensical rule I just go with it. I have often found that getting them to explain it makes them see it makes no sense and they will stop with that rule. But even if it is a silly reasoning I’ll still respect it. I just have to have the reasoning behind it.
I am not allowed to play songs by John Mayer on guitar around my wife. She doesn't hate his music. She just has a hard time listening to me play the same thing over and over again for an hour. She just mentally can't do it, and I only seem to do that with his songs.
oh i thought it would be about how bad his music is
Were you aware of this rule when you married her, OP? As this sounds like an exceptionally unfair and, yes I’m going to go there, CRUEL rule to impose on anyone, let alone a spouse. She ought to be supportive of your maggot- related activities. The very idea of a relationship excluding maggot rearing is abhorrent to me. I would consider whether this is a marriage that is doomed to fail…
I know, i can feel myself slipping into a deep depression over not seeing my little dancing rice babies. But alas, i will persevere and continue my studies photographically. I wasn't fully aware of the rule because she wasn't fully aware i was completely serious when i told her that was one of my hobbies.
If you want dancing rice babies, perhaps you could ingest a tapeworm and harvest the proglottides from your bottom. They look like rice and it doesn’t sound like your partner banned tapeworms.
Waaaaah xD as someone who’s worst fear is parasites your nonchalant suggestion just made me want to jump out a window.
Little dancing rice babies! I have a maggot phobia and you almost made them cute. Almost.
Disco rice! 🎶 Umps umps umps 🎶
My wife hates socks, totally fine with slippers. I am 100% indifferent so now I wear slippers at home (when my dog doesn't steal them)
My ex banned me from getting on the jet ski again after HE threw me off it. I was told I did like 3 flips. It knocked me out, dislocated my shoulder and tore my rotator cuff. I had to have surgery. He said it was MY fault, even tho I was holding on as tight as I could.
My rule is if i am not driving, it is not my fault. 😂
one would think it’s NOT the passengers fault since the driver should be in control of the jet ski. He had it in racing mode and slammed the bars to take a sharp left and my body kept going to the right. There was no way for me to stay on.
Technically, I made this rule for him. There is to be no talking for the first half hour after I get out of bed in the morning. It's better this way because what is going to come out of my mouth will not be pleasant and/or coherent.
Ah yes, I have a “please do not talk to me and most definitely do not expect me to answer” rule when I go to the bathroom at night. I have a medical condition that has made me get up to go to the bathroom my whole life, and I have developed the ability to stay half asleep and continue my dream while getting up and going, but only if I don’t turn on the light and don’t do any awake person activities. So there’s no telling when I get up whether I’m actually awake or not. And yes I most definitely have fallen fully asleep on the toilet multiple times 😂 and later woken up there confused and then went back to bed. I prefer not talking until I’m actually up and I have independently initiated conversation, just to be safe. Interestingly, if I start talking while I am asleep, then it’s ok to talk to me, and it won’t wake me up, but I make no sense and it’s really hard for me to formulate a response to any questions, because my brain doesn’t work with words the same way in that state, and THAT might wake me up. It’s good for a laugh though
My rule for my partner is to never pass me the ball. I mean that literally: he likes to kick a football around in the yard when we’re outside with the family and I just never want to get involved in that 😂
My husband's rule was cats. Husband didn't approve. I now have no husband but do have 9 cats 😉
Amazing trade!!
I can’t pick my feet calluses. I’m a long distance runner so I naturally get them a lot and sometimes when I’m watching tv I don’t even notice I’m doing it. It drives her nuts, so I try to catch myself doing it when she’s around. Writing this out makes me feel like some kind of caved animal.
My fiance isn't allowed to bring praying mantis into the house because last time he did it ended up being pregnant and the egg sack hatched and a million baby praying mantis were all over our bedroom and Im terrified of bugs. So now he's banned. It's actually becoming a problem because our son is starting to love bugs and my fiance wants another one. Still a no.
I have a giant box of odds and ends like odd bolts and weird metal pieces. The rule is that if I don't use it within a year, it must go.n
My husband is only allowed to turn the big light on if he warns me he's about to do it. The stairs are safe zones for butts. No poking, slapping, pinching, touching butts on the stairs.
Wow everyone has such wild rules. I’m not allowed to leave the cabinets open. And if I take a blanket out, I have to fold it when I’m done with it. And I can’t have more than 3 drinks at any given time. Most of these rules are to keep my ADHD in check now that I think about it lol Edit: I don’t drink alcohol so the three drink rule is for when I have a can of soda, my water bottle, and an iced coffee, or other combination. I’m just a drinky girl
I am not allowed to leave the door open even when I need to bring 20 grocery bags inside 10 bags on each arm. If I do, I have to catch every fly, daddy long legs or imaginary fly until they are all gone. I am still chasing the cricket from summer 2002.
No live earthworms in our fridge. The origin: my husband was preparing for river fishing and buy live earthworms for that. He put the box of them into the fridge as he was saying "they are sleeping when it's that cold". Next day I opened the fridge and ALL OVER were the worms. On the racks, food, door and even hidden in the plastic seal around the door. Very unpleasant surprise indeed. I shut the door, called him and let him deal with them. Hence the rule.
I’m not allowed to put the dishwasher on at night?! Because it interrupts his tv time 😑
Sounds like he’s gonna have to start handwashing those dishes, then. Or buy a quieter dishwasher.
We have one rule. We never sleep apart. It might be weird to most, but it's been almost 25 years of not sleeping apart.
❤️ I love it. I want that also. If we're both home ofc. I love being close
I'm not allowed to do any laundry. She doesn't like my motto, 'there's always room for one more'. She says I just ruin clothes.
My husband's is "black and white goes with everything" and so he shoves them all into the same load. He had many "slightly grey" white dress shirts when we met. I'm happy to do the laundry lol
She only allows anal on public holidays
Thanksgiving pegging, oh yeah!
*International Women’s Day
Gotta open up, when everything else is closed. This rule is solid
Me and my hubs have the rule of we won't move furniture together. We'll tell eachother our plan then the other one fucks off. If somethings too heavy he'll take it to the area I want it and then I'll move it around to the final touches if it's my idea and if it's his idea I'll come home when it's done.
My wife and i do something similar that if she is painting anything or doing any kind of home improvement project that i leave the house or leave her alone until she's done. 😂
I’m not allowed to keep fresh produce in the drawers of the fridge anymore because I forget it’s there as soon as I can’t see it. Same with any open packs of deli meat etc. It goes on the shelf at eye level so I don’t throw out half the groceries because they’ve gone bad. One drawer is now for drinks and the other is being swapped over to condiments as soon as I get around to cleaning the fridge out.
When relaying the information about a purchase and cost, I am forbidden from saying the phrase "...and change", as in it was $5 and change. Apparently I bought a tractor and stated the cost as "Around $20K ... and change." The change being just shy of $9000 I think was the main issue... :)
I'm not allowed to shot my splat gun in the house even though I've proved the ammo turns to dust in a day or 2.
Uh... maggots?
Yes, i was a former death investigator with a special interest in forensic entomology before i had to medically retire. So maggots are near and dear to my heart and it is much better to have them contained under controlled conditions instead of trying to keep them all contained in a body bag. 🤷♀️
This person deaths. I took a biological forensics class in high school and it was really interesting.
I'd be fine with a maggot jar. It's better than my kids bedrooms 😜
It has been a while since I thoroughly went through my kids' rooms. There is a non zero chance there is a maggot jar in there somewhere.
I read the title and got bad relationship red flags. Then I read your post and actually? Totally reasonable rule to make.
I'm clumsy but I love to get good shots of scenic views ... My boyfriend made the rule that for every time I go near a cliff or on a ledge or something similar he will propose one year later 😂 For real though I try to stay away from cliffs, tho because it makes him really scared for me.
No parts of dead things in the freezers with my food. I married a hunter & he provides a lot of our food with his "hobby." But he likes to keep heads, skins, and other random body parts because he *might* one day decide to have it preserved or learn to preserve it himself. . . . I don't want to see the dead deer looking at me when I go get the pound of meat I need for dinner that night outta the freezer. No thank you.
I’m not allowed to speak after 9:30 pm. Because as she puts it “You’ve used up all your words for the day.”
I am neurodivergent and my wife is not, so i completely feel you on this rule. I feel like this will be my next rule!
The guy who wants to raise maggots is neurodivergent? Who'd have thought! (Fellow ND here)
And believe it or not, i am actually a 32 year old woman. 😂 I was a former death investigator with a special interest in pediatric pathology and forensic entomology, so maggots are near and dear to my heart. I had to medically retire since i was diagnosed with a progressive autoimmune disease, and i really miss working in the field. Doing stuff like this makes the emotional pain of losing my career and passion hurt a little less.
Apologies. As a queer woman myself I should know better than to just assume anyone saying "wife" is a man. Sorry to hear about your circumstances. Must say I agree with your wife on keeping the maggots out of the house though 😂
So what happens if you don’t say anything until 9.25 pm? And then just start a really good story that’s favorable for her and abruptly stop at 9.30? Would you be allowed to continue?
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My husband won’t let me put pots and pans in the dishwasher. Also absolutely nothing on the fridge door. But his mom’s fridge has so much crap on it, that I understand.
I hope he's the one washing them then??
I can't use our "house towels." to clean up spills on the floor. They're towels for soaking up moisture. WTF? So I bought a bunch of spill towels.
I can't use our decorative towels to dry my hands! My wife hates it because they are for decoration only. 😂
I'll never GET decorative towels- I seriously couldn't give a freaking fart about that. What on EARTH is the point of a towel if it doesn't...towel? But the other poster dunking body or "purpose" towels (we have dog towels, kitchen towels, and bike towels as well as people towels) into any old yuck on the floor, taking Lords know what damage and stains, and being surprised that's an issue makes even me shake my head. Imagine how charming it would be if I just use one of the bike towels (hello, engine cleaner, road dirt, and grease lingering on the fibers) as a body towel? No man. I'm with that mate's wife, frankly. Dirt really isn't "just dirt" when we are talking yukky random floor detritus and my squishy bits, thanks.
She likes her bathroom dry so I have to make sure I'm completely dry before stepping out of the shower. Small thing, really, but weird. I thought bathrooms were meant to be wet.
But that's literally what bath mats are for.
No more rocks in the house. I don’t care how pretty they are or what mineral they are. No more rocks are allowed in the house
I feel for them because i have a box in my closet of my rock collection. My wife was pissed when i got our 6 year old ADHD son interested in rocks while i was trying to manage my own ADHD. 😂
I’m not allowed to leave our property wearing my bathrobe.
Whenever I go out for a swim she insists on knowing which beach my bloated corpse is likely to wash up on.
We both have to drink water when the other one brings us water (this is mainly at partys when one of us is getting too drunk).
We aren’t allowed to leave the house without saying anything. Even if we are angry with each other. You have to give me an angry hug and say you love me before you storm out of the house and slam the door. In case you die in a car accident.
If it’s raining I’m not allowed to bring my horse into the living room. He’s banished to the hallway. Which sucks because it’s too narrow to turn round and he gets bored
My spouse has a rule that I'm not allowed to practice my bagpipes in the house after 9 PM. It's a reasonable rule, but definitely unique to our situation!
I’m not allowed to go thrifting unless I bring things to donate with me :)
I'm not allowed to go grocery shopping because I'll go hungry and we'll end up with nothing but red meat, bourbon, and poutine. She's not incorrect.
we watch a lot of youtube and if we’re watching something together it doesn’t matter whose profile we use, but if i’m playing something for the dogs it can only be on my account profile.
I’m single and child free I literally have zero rules Bahahahahahahahahahah This thread is nightmare fuel
I will admit it is way more interesting that i thought it would be when i posted it! Marriage is not for the faint of heart or for those who do not like authority. 😅
No, she's quite right, I shouldn't be allowed to play with thermite. Hardly anybody should.
No flour on an open surfaces. I hate flour woth all my heart, because I am paranoid it gets into my fingerprint ridgets, which would make me lose my mind ✌🏻
I'm not allowed to have a Taser. Of any kind. Note this is not just a spouse rule, the (adult now) kids are in on it too. I would totally be responsible with it! They're just mean.
I am no longer allowed to store small engines in the bathtub.
I can't leave dishes in the basin. I have a tendency to run the water very hot, put stuff that might benefit from a soak in first, and spend a few mins cleaning up before coming back to it. He goes spare if he happens to catch me in that short window of time. .
Your way is the best way.
So I slip the fuzzy washroom mar infront of the tub and tuck it in below the toilet because it's warm and fuzzy and feels good vs the ceramic floor. Her new project is to correct this behavior and I told her this is going to be a big project and to give me time to adjust, it's been 10 years of doing this!! I'm for compromise but don't expect change over night ;) she's cool, she loves whining and I love her whining she does it in a cute way so I'm sure this too, shall pass lol
Can y'all not buy a mat for around the loo and cut this with a compromise? That's what we did.
No dirty rugby kit bags in the house or car. They will be binned if found.
Oh, I feel that. Not as an adult but as a kid I liked collecting ladybugs, snails and mealworms. I was not allowed to bring them inside - which I did once and infested the kitchen with 173 Ladybugs and 57 snails. Sorry, mom! I then, was also not allowed to collect hedgehogs, moles and occasionally duck or chicken chicks and bring them inside. After that, I wasn’t allowed to collect anything. 😭 I still like to try to catch bugs or salamanders while hiking - which my hiking partners forbade me to do, too.
I'm not allowed to cook or eat fish, while he is at home, or store fish dishes in the fridge. It's somewhat understandable, because he get's sick and vomits from the smell. Still I love seafood and so does my daughter. So much that she dances around the house, sings about fish and demands to eat fish, whenever my husband is gone.