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Dear DH,
Dearest DH,
Sometimes I wonder what hole you've been living under. When I ask you to assist me in tidying up the house... why do you walk around in circles staring at stuff? See that bag that has been on the kitchen floor for WEEKS that I purposely didn't pick up? No, it does not belong there. Don't say "well i don't know. you have to tell me" in response to me pointing out said bag.
I find it infuriating that a grown man doesn't know that the canvas bag we use to put the dog's possessions in when we travel, does not belong on the kitchen floor where it was tossed when we got home from our trip weeks ago.
Where do I locate a cleaning school to send you to? Because I really don't know what to do about this "cluelessness" regarding where things belong. *Sigh*
Love, Your Wife
Re: Dear DH,
TTC #1 since February 2011
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Yeah, that's a near universal male trait. The only men who don't have it are those who are massively OCD about cleanliness, and I'm too messy to live with a guy like that.
I complained to my mom once about how DH can walk through the house, realize that it's messy but not know what to do about it. She laughed and said, "I'd lie to you and tell you it gets better, but it doesn't. Your dad and I have been married for 35+ years, and he still does that."
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Ha! FI is pretty OCD about cleanliness, yet when I asked him to vacuum the other day while I was sweeping the kitchen, he said 'vacuum what?" How about the fur covered floors you are always complaining about?
shoot me now.
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seriously. *sigh*
It's like that at our house, too. I'm sorry y'all have it to deal with, but hearing that other husbands are the same way makes me feel better about it.
There's a ladder leaning against the wall in our bedroom that's been there since we remodeled William's nursery, which obviously was over three months ago. I'm not moving it. It's my "test object", like Fly's canvas bag. One evening last week DH finally looked at it and said, "You know, there's no reason for that to still be there. I need to be better about helping you pick things up and put them away." The ladder? It's still there. ::sigh::
It's a good thing we all love our husbands so much!
My H is totally OCD. The grass isn't always greener.
Meeeee tooooo!!