Thats insane... To consistently not close the door like that
Marriage saved.
It’d cause too much conflict otherwise!
I'm glad to have read this, it gives me a little comfort to see that other people deal with same issues. Sometimes I just close the door for her when she's in the restroom.
I feel like a lot of these habits come from having lived alone for a while after leaving home. I have a lot of habits that I'm 100% certain I didn't do growing up because my mom would tell me not to. I would probably have kept them if I had started living with other people later. My mom on the other hand now does the things she used to tell me not to and I can't help but think that it is related to not caring anymore after living in solitude for decades.
Anyway, women however, I feel like they build these neurotic behaviors - like learned things that just stick with them forever. Like ouch, the pan was hot, don't do that again, but for EVERYTHING. So by the time they are old, just nothing they do makes any sense, to anyone, even other women.
This is, of course, not a universal rule. It's just an observation about tendencies.
One gender difference is that when these quirks are presented to men, they're a bit more likely to change to a more sensible method. Women tend to get annoyed about the male tendency to suggest solutions to everything. Annoyance can motivate stubbornness.
One of my exes hated onion, and when I look back, this made my life way more insufferable than having to hear the (to me) weird political opinions. "Oh I'd like to have this salad but please no onion, and please don't use a knife that's used to cut onion when preparing!". "I think I smell onion, apparently they ignored the knife comment, can you tell them to pack this and maybe you can eat it back home and I'll just go to the [insert food stall name], so meet in 15 mins there?". Ugh.
Never underestimate how much some people hate onions, and no they won't start up a new dating site to find people like themselves :)
edit: I later saw your comment stating what you reacted to, and yup, that part is mean indeed^^
It would be a complete deal breaker if they actually complained about onion or imagined they could taste it.
Workaround: slightly ajar as default idle state for silent operation and intercept immediately before completion.
That's actually a problem with my dishwasher, which can't be left slightly open (it always closes shut), and me being a single, so it takes time to get a full machine. If I want to prevent mold I either have to start the dishwasher half empty (which is counterintuitive) or to collect the dirty dishes outside the dishwasher until enough have accumulated to fill it. But then you have all the dirty dishes lying around. Argh!
So? Hit the cancel button when you close it - you have to be right there to close it after all.
TBH, I do this too, because I hate putting in some milk to warm for cereal and getting out warm milk flavoured with and smelling of the curry we warmed last night.
Anytime the microwave oven is used for aromatic food or any meal with flavouring, leave the door open.
The idea of warming milk for cereal has never crossed my mind.
It sounds like it happened occasionally causing the battery to drain overnight. So not necessarily improper close every time, but a dice roll.