It’s a bit of a weird and random thing. But it winds me up.
So we have a teenage ds. He can be a pita. Things like an untidy bedroom, leaving the kitchen in a mess after cooking, complaining when asked to help round the house. Losing things, bring messy. It’s probably things a lot of parents of teens have to deal with. Though I’m sure there are some perfect teens out there. Ds does attempt to do certain things but it’s always a sloppy job.
Dh and I will be discussing it at times, just generally about how frustrating it is and how to deal with it.
Dh likes to make out that he himself was a perfect teen. That he helped out without being asked, that he always cleaned up after himself.
I know this not to be true. I met dh when we were both still young. He still lived with his parents and I know for a fact he was messy, lazy round the house and so on. He then lived on his own for a while before we moved in together and he was lazy then. His mum would go round and clean his house.
After we moved in together it took years for him to start doing his share. I won’t tell you some of the disgusting habits he had and ridiculous ideas he had about cleaning.
We are in a place now where we’ve reached a compromise and dh is a lot better.
It’s the rewriting of history and pretending that he was perfect it sickens me a bit tbh.