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Oh to be a guy for a day...
I wonder what it would be like to be able to walk past the laundry, dirty floors, sink full of dishes, etc and just not see them? I love DH but he is such a slob. I am a clean freak and can't stand to see these things but he doesn't seem to notice them until I point them out. I have talked with my girlfriends and their guys are the same way. Do any of you have this problem?
Re: Oh to be a guy for a day...
I can't say I do. I'm a clean freak, but so is HH. He wasn't really when we met, but he kept telling me he loved how clean I am (his ex-gf was a bit of a slob actually). I guess I must have rubbed off on him because very very quickly he got into the whole cleaning thing with me! I think he realizes how important it is to me, and he really likes living in a clean house too. So he's the one who does the dishes, he hates if they're sitting there dirty for more than 15 or 20 minutes. He is so extreme that he FOLDS his dirty laundry before putting it in the laundry bin!!
I have to say, I'm really glad we're so compatible in this respect. If we weren't on the same page, I could see it being such a huge bone of contention. Instead, it's something we've never once had to argue about. I'm really lucky to have found a guy who doesn't think that my cleaning is bat sh!t crazy!
I have a housekeeper come every other week in order save my relationship:) I'm a clean freak, and HH isn't really a slob but just not as neat as I am. Our comprimise is to pay a housekeeper every other week, so I won't lose my shi!t.
I am able to relax bc I know I am not the only one doing all the cleaning, but of course I still pick up/clean in between visits.
I was JUST thinking this as I just finished vacuuming the entire house (I HATE doing the stairs) and brushing our beast of a dog (we just gave her a bath). While he plays his video games. Occasionally he'll unload the dishwasher or clean the kitchen for me when I work a saturday or sunday, but usually I'm doing everything. I hate that our house is not super clean all the time, but with 2 cats and a dog, I can't keep up. Plus, I too, am super lazy sometimes and jsut walk by the pile of stuff to take upstairs.
I wish we had started keeping our places cleaner when we first started living together so that we would have a cleaner house.
You've heard what I've done, not what I've been through.
If you were in my shoes, you'd fall the first step."
We are the same person.
H would never allow me to be cleaning by myself without getting up to help. If he sees I am cleaning the kitchen or something, he'll take the recycling out, etc. But I never ask and his mother never trained him on this. Until we got married, she still cleaned his apartment. He also does all the laundry more or less.
The house still isn't up to my perfect standards, but I had to give in on that a bit. I also rarely ask him to help and if I do, I only ask him once, with him knowing that I don't expect him to do something right away, but I do expect him to do it.
I think I am just lucky he likes to keep busy in general.