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Do all men live like this or just mine?

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Bananaramallamakarma · 15/04/2024 07:19

My dh lives in a mess, he lives like a pig. His personal hygiene is good, he never smells but that’s where it ends. We have seperate rooms and his room is dirty and messy, piles of clothes everywhere, surfaces thick with dust, he never vacuums. He never cleans or tidies or even changes his bed. His car is also filthy. He runs his own business so is quite busy with that all the time but I also run a small business plus do the majority of the child care and housework but I won’t clean his room. I used to clean it for him but I’ve stopped as he just lets it get bad again and I have enough to do - and I am not his mother. It’s starting to give me the ick that he can live like this at his age. He is 45 years old, he was messy when I met him but he was young so I assumed he would get better with age. He hasn’t. Is it normal for men to live in their own filth and not be bothered by it? It can’t be good for his health, mental health or physical health.

OP posts:
Thomasina79 · 15/04/2024 07:25

No it’s not a masculine trait. I know plenty of tidy men and have known women whose houses I would not enter! Some people just don’t notice a mess.

AnnoyingPopUp · 15/04/2024 07:22

I think a lot of people are like this!

neverknowinglyunreasonable · 15/04/2024 07:22

He sounds like a bad flatmate not a husband.

EveryoneJapan · 15/04/2024 07:22

I’d say some people do live like that, it’s not exclusive to men. I have a female friend whose house is such a tip that I wipe my feet on the way out.

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