I'm surprised how many of these relate to the woman doing housework/cleaning/cooking & man watching tv/gaming. Also, " I buy expensive things with HIS money". It's not the f**king 1950s!

From the comments it sounds like people don't have any sense of humour!! I do these things with my boyfriend and he does them also with me... what's wrong with being a little childish and have fun in your relationship??

When he's being petty, my husband will rearrange the action figures on my desk, mixing Star Trek with Star Wars. When I'm being petty I'll take his "good" D20s and replace them with the ones in the dice jail (D&D nerds will understand.)

I was mad at my brother once so I removed certain legos from the set he was trying to build.

Some of these were cute - like the guy who saves all the cute memes so he can send them to his gf/wife when he's no longer mad...

I never do it when I'm angry, but when I want to tease/aggravate my husband I seriously explain to him key parts of battles all wrong. He's a historian who gives battlefield tours and it drives him crazy.

When my fiancée p*sses me off I buy her something cool for her bike. She loves her bike. Lately it's been click and collect or one of the three things I keep stocked up that I've had delivered. I then give it her. This has three effects. 1: She thanks me profusely and kisses me. 2: She spends 30 minutes or so fitting it. I'm not allowed to fit it as I bought it her and she thinks it's not fair for me to fit it as well. 3: Afterwards she f**ks off out on her bike for about 3 hours while I sit at home in blissful quiet while she is grinning her head off with her new bike attachment or upgrade. Recently it was a new bike (£900) but that was only because I was running out of ideas for what to buy for her other bike. Now I have a blank slate!

Why is so much about chores the woman does for the man? Him adding extra laundry, her not doing the laundry... I hate laundry. He can help just as much doing it.

When I’m mad at my brothers or friends, I bake bread and don’t share. The kneading is also therapeutic because it’s simple, repetitive, and oddly comforting to squish my gooey and sticky bread into a more soft and almost pillow like ball. Note- I also don’t tell them I baked it so they don’t get upset. I just eat my bread in my house without them and smile to myself. When I cheer up from whatever I got mad about (it takes maybe a couple of hours or a day or two at most to forget) I give them some. Most the time it’s petty upset- ie, my friend put me into a glorious checkmate for chess and I’m a little annoyed because it’s so good and I have no choice but to deal with his proud smile.

Not a thing about partners, but I used to spit in my abusive fathers lunch when he wasn't looking. It just isn't satisfying though when people don't know you did it, how can they get flustered and let me drink in their defeat?

I can't think of anything petty I may do when I'm pissed at my husband. Many people think these are too childish. I can definitely see that, but I think they're funny as they're SO minor, it isn't that bad, and they probably do it with love, and they have a good relationship that can withstand all that. I know my husband and I don't have that kind of relationship--we don't go around doing that, playing pranks, etc, that can work really well with some couples.

Most of these people come across as horribly toxic.

It's called being passive aggressive and it's not healthy for a relationship.