Losing my mind

Now I love my partner I really do but my god he is doing my head in! So recently he has this thing where he keeps accidentally taking things I need to work with him, so far 3 times he’s taken my car keys with him so he’s had to come all the way back to drop them off so he ends up late for work (20 minute drive each way) but today he took my phone to work with him, after he left I was trying to find it as he messages me when he gets to work so I know he gets there all good but I couldn’t find it anywhere and I don’t have a spare working phone or a landline to be able to call it or contact someone to call it for me to find it, about 40 minutes after he left he turns up with it! But he’s just so unorganised when getting sorted for work and his things are just everywhere! I’m just ranting really but has anyone else had this with their partners?

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Are these things you’ve left in his car and he’s forgotten about, or is he literally picking them up and leaving with them?! The only time my partner has done this is when I left my keys in his glovebox. Surely it shouldn’t be difficult for him to look at his hands before leaving and checking only his own belongings are in them. I’d lose my mind too!

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Sounds silly but maybe your own phone and keys lock box? Lol this would be annoying though

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do y’all have the same phone or something? 😭 that just sounds insane like something a toddler would do. if y’all don’t have the same phone then that definitely seems like an abuse tactic. if you do have the same phone, get very obviously different phone cases(like his is black and yours is neon orange), get an eye catching key ring, make all of your things obviously not look like his so that there’s no more chance of him being too distracted or not paying enough attention.

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Agree with if it’s not accidentally in his car or bag then he is purposefully picking your items up and taking them with him. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Is your partner neurodivergent in any way? Asperger’s? Autism?

Has he always done this since you’ve been together or is it a recent behaviour? If it’s recent, tell him to go see his GP and ask for a neurologist referral, get his brain scanned and checked out to make sure medically he is ok.

Never in my life have I ever picked up someone else’s set of keys and taken them with me. You would know just from sight that those aren’t your keys! What’s his excuse for taking them? Because even if he *thought* they were his, when he tried to use them to open his car and realised they didn’t work, why didn’t he put them back??

The same goes for a phone. Even if you had the same phone, when you pick it up, you’d tap the screen to see if it’s yours!

Are you sure he’s not doing it on purpose to inconvenience you? 🤔 Does he not like you working?

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Since he's been back I've just felt unable to rebuild that connection with him. He's pretty lazy and won't do anything I ask, I'm working and he's on annual leave for a few months. I'll ask him to do simple tasks whilst I'm at work like turning the washing machine on, I'll fill it before work so all he has to do is press start and he 'forgets'.

He is good with our baby, he does every bedtime, stays up with him if I have work the next day etc but I don't feel a connection with him

Without sounding harsh it's like he lacks common sense. He asks where the baby bottles are although they've been in the same place for 6 months, we have a tommee tippee travel blind and he put it up wrong as in he put the blind over the net curtain and ripped the net curtain down

I can say something to him and he just doesn't listen

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