Husband leaves doors unlocked

[Anonymous]

I fell out of the habit of locking doors after a decade of living in small, controlled access apartment buildings. I'm going to try the post it trick since I just moved into a duplex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No amount of asking, pleading, cajoling, getting angry, stating the same "you don't care about our safety" conversations has changed my husband either. It all falls on deaf ears. It also drives me ballistically crazy. No advice to you, just a little misery loves company.

+1. My husband came from a pretty crappy neighborhood and his parents never locked the doors, so he takes this as proof that one need not lock one's doors (or even close them). He thinks I'm a nagging PITA for repeatedly asking him "When you come upstairs for the night, please make sure all the doors are locked." I put the kids to bed, so I usually go up first. I hate coming down at 9, after the kids are in bed and it's dark out, to find that half the doors are unlocked.

+1

My DH came from a crappy neighborhood too, where his mom still lives. Guess what? She leaves the doors unlocked, too. So, I think it is a combination of lazy, nothing to steal, if it worked there it will work here, and being passive aggressive - all rolled into one. I take the responsibility of locking up every night, for peace of mind. It doesn't matter how many times, or how nicely I ask, DH is not going to be the one that does it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like this is a guy thing; I've known a lot of men but only one woman who consistently left the doors unlocked in a major metropolitan area. The men seemed to think that nothing bad was likely to happen, and if it did, they could handle it. (The woman described herself as a flake who was always forgetting her keys. Eventually she was a flake who was robbed.)

No, it is not.

[Anonymous]

Mine does too!!! Sometimes windows too.

I am OCD so I usually check....but I also tend to go to bed before him

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine does too!!! Sometimes windows too.

I am OCD so I usually check....but I also tend to go to bed before him

Pp--I'm laughing. My DH definitely falls into the category of a guy that thinks he could handle anything. No talking sense.