My husband [26M] of 5 years doesn't follow instructions well and it's driving me [24F] crazy. I feel like I can't count on him to complete basic tasks unless I go into an in-depth explanation of why it needs to be done the way I want it to.

ah so he's a grown up who can't be responsible for his own house maintenance while he's at the house but she's also responsible for it while she's not even home

Or he was simply busy working, like a rational person could reason? Is he supposed to do everything she says, without question, the second she demands it?

She told him to close the windows and said nothing else at all. She wasn't even home, but he is just supposed to be a mindless drone? Right.

Cool whip isn't cream it's a non-dairy whipped product that isn't even close to cream.

It's nice that you know that. You have zero proof that he knows the difference between whipped and whipping cream. The fact that she can't realize that says way more about her than him. That an innocent mistake that I'm sure millions of people have made that never made the slightest splash in their relationship and she's actually bitter over it.

So does that mean he can change her dinner order? She wants steak and tells him so while she goes to teh bathroom and he decides to order her chicken and it's her fault because she didn't specificy that she didn't want chicken.

Uh, did you even read what I said or are you so busy pretending that OP shouldn't communicate that you assumed something yet again?

So, your advice is -instead of being a grown up and working on communication like partners- is to act like a child and throw a passive aggressive fit.

Lord.

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