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OH - Can't live without him, but boy does he drive me crazy (semi rant warning!)

1234ABC, 23 May, 2011 at 15:11 Posted on Planning 0 8

Why are men so slow in doing anything you ask them to? I love my OH to bits, and i'd do anything for him, but i sometimes wonder why i'm the one getting stressed about the wedding and he's not. Infact, why is he causing me stress? Everything i ask him to do, it takes an age for him to get it done. I've told him i'm not having anything to do with the Groom side of things (Kilts etc), but find myself getting annoyed that he's made no progress with anything related to it when I do ask him how he's getting on, he just gives me this little grin and say's "i've not done anything yet..."

It took him 6 months to ask his uncle if he would play the acoustic guitar during our ceremony. - I asked him about this more times that i care to count, and even offered to do it for him but he said he would do it. Suppose i should be grateful that he did it at all.

When we got engaged, we asked a couple of his close friends to walk the bridesmaids down the aisle. One of them i don't really like that much, i find him to be a bit on the immature side, quite untrustworthy, very 'it's got to be about me' attitude and he's a horrible drunk too. (he threw a strop because one of our friends are getting married a week before his birthday)

So i asked my OH about 4 weeks ago to speak to them both and make sure that they were still up for the job of grooms men, and to make sure that we could count on the one of his friends that i don't like to be there and not f*** anything up, or try and make it all about him. Unsurprisingly the OH still hasn't done what i asked him to do and i'm starting to lose the plot with him. How is it so difficult to send a Facebook message to someone and organise a night to meet?

He still hasn't started looking at Kilt hire stuff. I know he's not going to physically book anything until September, but still, i'd rather he had a good idea of what he wanted, sooner rather than later because i know what he's like with remembering to do stuff. I know our wedding is about 6 and a half months away, but that means we have about 4 - 5 months to get all the important stuff ready, and given his track record, that's a couple of months short of his usual time line.

I just want to see him doing something that he says he's going to do when he says he'll do it, instead of it being several weeks down the line and i'm asking him how he's getting on and getting peeved because he hasn't done anything!!!

I'm maybe just a bit hormonal this week, but i really wish he would at least look like he's making some kind of effort in organising Our Day so his mother doesn't think it's me that's organising it and not letting him have anything to do with it.

Sigh (sorry for moaning)

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Latest activity by Vikster79, 23 May, 2011 at 16:07
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    Some people are just procrastinators in whatever they do, I work with a few guys like that and I know to do it myself if I want something quickly. Have you tried explaining to him why you're frustrated at his lack of urgency? Usually that works with me, if me and my bride to be are having different opinions on wedding priorities then she'll explain her side, i'll explain mine and we'll work it out.

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  • caweena
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    *huggles*

    I know the feeling, our engagement was only 7months, it took him 4 to decide on a BM,then took me nagging/telling his BM to organise kilts (BM's wife's family run a kilt hire business!) me asking about 3 billion times to get answers to various his family related questions (he wouldn't let me do it for him) etc etc, I think men are just generally a wee bit useless (not ALL men before someone jumps on me for saying this!) and they tend to take a lot longer to come round to the idea that things won't just happen, we have to MAKE them happen.

    A couple of hitchers have said recently that their men have finally stepped up to the challenge with about 2 months to go. Don't let it get to you and wait for him to realise it's actually happening - sending many patience vibes your way xx

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  • Kooks
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    I feel your pain!!!! I have lost count of the amount of times I have asked OH to check who from his football team is going on his stag do because I need to write them out a wedding invitation. I've given up now - his mates, his problem if they're not invited!! And he doesn't get that I don't want to write 'and partner' or 'plus one' when people have a long term girlfriend / wife!

    I just think most men don't get the amount of organisation and planning needed to pull off a decent wedding!!

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  • Browny
    Beginner June 2011
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    You are not alone! My OH is exactly the same! I had to nag and nag and nag before he did anything off his list. He did get the message eventually (but only about a week or so ago!) and now he does things off his list without me having to nag. I still have to nag but not as often!

    It did drive me insane and I had to have full on strops on a few occasions. But you are certainly not alone!

    xxx

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    I've tried to talk to him about it. When i asked him this morning about organising a night with his mate he said he would do it either at lunch or tonight. This is his usual response when i ask him abou things, so i'll be surprised if he actually remembers without me prompting him. and i think that's what bothers me the most, that it takes for me to remind him constantly.

    I find it almost ironic that he's the one who asked me to marry him, but i've to do all the work planning 'our' day?

    He's a very soft soul too which is why i find it so hard to properly talk to him about what's going on with organisation. If i say anything about his lack of doing anything he gets really upset, then i feel bad for upsetting him.

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  • MrsShark
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    I can totally and utterly sympathise with you hun as my OH is exactly the same!

    I adore him but he does frustrate the bejeezus out of me sometimes as he has a completely different way of dealing with everything….namely leave it til the last minute and then panic! Since we got together he has seen how being more organised does make life easier but I don’t honestly think he will change really, and if I am really honest (though would never tell him this… ) I wouldn’t want him to.

    As much as his piles of clutter around the house drive me crackers, I have to appreciate that most of the time, my endless need to tidy the piles of clutter probably do the same to him!

    Though one little devious trick I employed was when doing the checklist of things we needed to do for the wedding, I put the to-do date for the things OH was doing about a month earlier than they actually needed to be done, knowing that he would take longer to do them and/or leave them to the last minute…so doing it this way meant I didn’t actually have to nag him and the things got sorted in time!

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  • 1234ABC
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    That's sounds about the same as me MrsShark. I wouldn't change him for the world. I like the idea of making the dates of when he's to get stuff done by earlier so that he'll get them done....

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  • Vikster79
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    Oh trust me its not only men that have "task" avoidance! My OH is forever dragging her feet witht the simplest of things i ask her to do for the wedding, but i end up just laughing about it because thats just the way she is ? Anymore laid back and shed be horizontal.

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