Let me preface this by saying that my DH is wonderful and supportive and caring, and basically everything I could really ask for in a husband, but there's one thing that I find recently that's ticking me the eff off.

So my parents don't really speak english, and if they do it's like a weird mixture of chinese and english that no one but myself and my sister can decipher, which means I switch to chinese when I talk to them on the phone.

Every time I'm on the phone with my parents (which has been a lot lately because they're helping me finance a house and my mom is up my butt about my pregnancy), and honestly, we can get a bit rambunctious so it sounds a bit angry even though we're not, DH starts asking me on the side "What? What's going on? What are you guys talking about?" and he does it over and over and over again until I mute my parents and ask him if he sees that I'm on the effing phone. He gets more and more agitated and angry that I don't answer him and it pisses me off because what the heck?

And then he'll say, yes but I can't understand what you're saying so what's wrong?

NOTHING. WE'RE TALKING ON THE EFFING PHONE AND WHY DO YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON? I'LL TELL YOU AFTER I'M FREAKIN' DONE SO STOP INTERRUPTING ME.

And he's all, well it sounds angry and I want to make sure everything is okay. And I'm telling him if it was an emergency, I'd tell him. He says he understands and won't do it next time. And then he does.

But seriously, wtf, didn't anyone ever teach him you don't interrupt someone when they're on the phone? I've tried to explain this to him multiple times and I've even done it to him once which made him really upset and he asked me to not interrupt him again and he'll TELL ME AFTER HE'S DONE. (Which is EXACTLY what I said.)

His excuse is at least I can understand the language he's speaking in (he's caucasian so he speaks only english.) Ugh and today he rolled his eyes when I was on the phone for more than 25 minutes and he was in the room and he looked like he wanted me to get off the phone because it agitated him. He's even confessed that sometimes when I'm on the phone with my parents he has the urge to cover his ears. It apparently gives him anxiety.

Then go. to. another. room.

This house has more than one room.

And I'm all, WT actual F did you expect when you married someone who comes from a different culture than you? Did you think because I married you my entire family will automatically become fluent in english? Have you met my parents? Have you met me? Do you not see our squinty eyes and chopstick wielding prowess? Seriously, what the heck are you thinking?!?

If you wanted someone who spoke english to her parents, you could have married a few million other girls out there. But you didn't, and you like every other aspect of the fact that my culture is big in our house, so you'll just have to contend with the fact that I have to speak chinese to my parents or we basically won't talk at all. You can't pick and choose which aspects of my damn ethnicity I bring into this house.

Phew. Thank god I got that off my chest.