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Tips needed how to get :dh to help me clean for Xmas

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ElfontheShelfIsWATCHINGYOUTOO · 03/12/2023 12:30

I can't do it alone, some issues physically etc.

He likes me to say what I want to done but when I leave him to it he doesn't want do it properly.

Eg, let's say the laminate floor has a large black mark. He will "clean the floor" but neglect the mark? He literally does nt seem to be able to to visibly see things like that.
. I do need him to work with me and just do as if say as harridan... As that sounds

Even asking him to help he gets bad tempered.

Please note : he's absolutely amazing in so many ways and more than pulls his weight in many other area. This is a bone of contention because I physically can't do it alone and he doesn't accept he can't do it alone.
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RantyAnty · 03/12/2023 16:19

DappledThings · 03/12/2023 13:25

Or he's doing it fine and OP has ludicrously specific standards. There is no way of knowing. She's not said he objects to doing it, just to doing it her way. If DH asked me to do some cleaning then asked me to listen to a podcast for instructions on how to do it I'd laugh in his face.

No, there really are set standards of cleanliness.

Every single hotel, restaurant, business has the same standards.

People who object to reasonable public standards of cleanliness are in the wrong.

DappledThings · 03/12/2023 16:25

RantyAnty · 03/12/2023 16:19

No, there really are set standards of cleanliness.

Every single hotel, restaurant, business has the same standards.

People who object to reasonable public standards of cleanliness are in the wrong.

OP isn't running a hotel.

Of course people can have different domestic standards and neither be wrong.

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