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Any one with a perfect husband?

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LullyDully Tue 04-Oct-16 08:39:37

I have a lovely husband but he does tend to be "perfect" at times. Usually if I do something wrong I get lots of hindsight about how I could have prevented it happening....I call it " stating the bloody obvious!"

He can even sometimes find a way to blame me for things he does wrong by some sort of twisted logic of his own.

Anyway we have borrowed a hedge trimmer to cut the vast hedges in our temporary house. Yesterday he cut through the wire with some hand shears in his enthusiasm. He now has to buy a new set to return!

Am I right in feeling smug? Also so glad it wasn't me as I may not have heard the end of it.

Does anyone else have a husband who is a a "Perfect Percy"...What my Mum called my Dad.

jollyg Tue 04-Oct-16 08:56:34

Mine THINKS he is perfect.

I disagree.

We used to call his father St. xxxxx, as his mum thought he was.

Again I disagreed, but got to respect the old B,r in the end

Gagagran Tue 04-Oct-16 09:27:39

LullyDully I think we are married to identical twins! grin

tanith Tue 04-Oct-16 09:31:57

No he's not perfect but he tells me he has a 'perfect' wife grin

kittylester Tue 04-Oct-16 09:32:48

I can't believe that you weren't somehow to blame lully grin

Wobblybits Tue 04-Oct-16 09:35:59

My wife has a perfect husband grin

Nelliemoser Tue 04-Oct-16 09:39:39

Mine is not perfect but he knows about everything and will tell everybody all about it. Isn't that kind.

Teetime Tue 04-Oct-16 09:42:39

My girls call DH Peter the Perfect and my sister calls him St. Peter- he is pretty good I have to say but a bit clumsy at times I recorded on here one day when he walked into the patio door and I couldn't stop laughing!

annsixty Tue 04-Oct-16 09:42:46

When mine was capable of logical thought his mantra was " I may have faults but I'm never wrong". He has never apologized except in an ironic way. You know,' I expect this will be blamed on me "

DanniRae Tue 04-Oct-16 09:43:13

hmm

harrigran Tue 04-Oct-16 09:55:28

Mine is definitely perfect, can not find one thing to complain about grin

whitewave Tue 04-Oct-16 09:58:04

nellie grin

DanniRae Tue 04-Oct-16 10:02:59

Nelliemoser - mine too!

goose1964 Tue 04-Oct-16 10:09:32

me too , never ever wrong about anything. He will even say he said the correct thing if I ever find out he was wrong, eg she's wearing black, no look it's white , I said she was wearing white. Still he's a good cook & does the bins

annsixty Tue 04-Oct-16 10:12:33

If the puzzled look was for me Dannierae my H has dementia, so in some ways he is now perfect as I get very little opposition to any thing, and no conversation to bore me.

BPJ Tue 04-Oct-16 10:13:31

Sorry ladies but I have a wife like that, I can't remember a time in the last 50 years when she did something that wasn't right.

jackieok Tue 04-Oct-16 10:14:20

We had someone coming to do some work in the loft. My husband didn't seem to know whether it was boarded or not. He said it was my fault he didn't know because I wouldn't let him put any of his hoarding up there!

clareken Tue 04-Oct-16 10:17:08

Lullydully you will be blamed for distracting him at the crucial moment :-D

Mildred Tue 04-Oct-16 10:17:48

Mine too!

jenwren Tue 04-Oct-16 10:21:08

Gosh I had one like that. You said black he said white etc. Genorous to a fault, fabulous holidays lovely lifestyle BUT I lived in a state of anxiety. In the end I divorced him. Best thing I ever did.

LyndaB Tue 04-Oct-16 10:25:13

Snap Teetime. We all had silly nicknames in my family, which my DH found very amusing back then. He became known as Peter Perfect (behind his back), because he was always 'right'. My sister married an American and we called him Rupert, because of his preference (then) for checked trousers. As he hadn't come across Rupert Bear he never understood why.

Esspee Tue 04-Oct-16 10:25:38

I thought all men were perfect.shock
My OH has always said so therefore it must be true. nodding sagely

Lilyflower Tue 04-Oct-16 10:25:57

My DH thinks it is vital to his amour propre to be right all the time and so it is devastating for him to be found out as wanting. I couldn't give a stuff about being wrong as, after all, who is perfect? Making mistakes is also how we adapt and learn.

I made a huge batch of ginger marmalade from ginger Tesco's delivered and wouldn't take away when I said I hadn't ordered it. It tasted OKish but the 'bits' were stringy and I threw it without a qualm. My DH was very upset though on my behalf feeling shame for my 'bodge up' that I certainly did not feel. I felt this was counter productive as, without experimenting on a 'no judging' basis, nothing would move forward. And anyway, the ginger debacle made me feel even better about the other jams I have made which were successful.

What is it with men and their silly pride and 'face'? They all think they are what my dad used to call 'Body Every Self'.

inishowen Tue 04-Oct-16 10:26:30

Oh yes! I was out recently and when i came home the back door key was missing. He tried to blame me, even though it was there when I went out, and gone when I got home. After much searching there was no sign of it. The next day he suddenly rushed out to the car. He then came in and said he had worked out where the key was. I must have thrown it in the bin with the recycling. He then went to the bin and came back with the key! I was astounded, and told him it was obvious he had just found it in his car. It was so blatant he had to admit that's where he'd found it. He couldn't bring himself to admit he'd been the one to lose it.

LullyDully Tue 04-Oct-16 10:40:07

Not just me then!!! Mr LD is off to Tescos this afternoon for his clickncollect replacement hedge cutters !!!!