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To find it really gross when DP doesn't shower?

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codsworth · 27/01/2011 12:07

Personally I get a shower every night, I wouldn't feel clean going to bed without a shower. DP on the other hand doesn't seem to care. When I first met him he only used to shower once or twice a week. He began showering every other night but I think only for my benefit. Now he's going back to his old ways and if I don't mention it, he'll happily go two or three days without a shower. He has a physical job, works in a supermarket all day and is kept active all day (not sat at check-outs) so I really think its gross that he doesn't feel the need to get a shower when he comes home. A few weeks ago I went to cuddle him in bed and he absolutely stunk. I told him so and moved away disgusted, his excuse was that he'd run out of deoderant THREE DAYS AGO!! and he'd not thought to get a shower in those three days either. He says I'm OTT but am I really?? I just think it's so gross. Last night he got changed out of his work clothes, had a shower (under protest) and put on some clean boxers. This morning he took the same pair of boxers off the bedroom floor and put them on again for work! his excuse was "I only wore them for a couple of hours last night"

So who's in the wrong then, me or him??

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diddl · 28/01/2011 08:26

How do these revolting men attract women?

GeekLove · 28/01/2011 08:28

codsworth Are you in fact in a relationship with my ExP from school?!
Only I remember him not washing/changing his clothes in the last two months before I saw sense and dumped him.
I also remember you from another thread about how critical he is of you.
I am not sure whether you really want to stay with him but when someone has got to the stage of being that critical, cannot take criticism from others and is not washing then it is circling the drain. You can spend shedloads of mental energy in being his 24-7 live-in councillor/carer but it really is no use, you will just feel utterly miserable.
Either he has such crippling low self esteem that he realises he is not good enough for you and is therefore using the power of guilt transference or he is actually trying really hard for you to dump him.
Whatever path you follow I wish you luck on behalf of you and your DCs.

southeastastra · 28/01/2011 08:38

no wonder we have a nation with so many allergies - some of you seem to wash far too often Wink

SalvadorDalek · 28/01/2011 20:59

oh do fuck off
Nobody needs a shower every night unless they have really dirty jobs

I shower twice a week once at home and once with ds when we go swimming.
I wash under my armpits when I shave and if my nallocks are a bit smelly I give them a splash of aftershave

You cleanfreaks are killing the plannet by excess using water and power

Wake up and smell the sweat

Frizzbonce · 28/01/2011 22:35

Onetoomanycornettos - re the 70s, yes I can remember a Lifebouy ad where this bloke stinks until he learns that application of soap + hot water = pulling a 'bird'.

I remember travelling through India years ago and being squashed in buses but nobody smelled at all. Over here, you only need two days of warm weather for there to be a mass outbreak of BO on the tube.

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