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To want to leave and not come back until it's clean?

40 replies

Eeyore86 · 31/10/2015 20:31

Boyfriend and I have been together for a year, and we are looking for a place of our own in January once his contact on his current flat runs out

He currently shares a house with his ex girlfriend and her boyfriend of around 18 months (he has his own flat but spends the vast majority of time in their shared flat, brings his washing to the flat etc) his ex girlfriend does have a mental health problem with a diagnosis and does seem to be in a manic phase at the moment but is managing to go to college and do a course a couple of days per week.

My problem is that every time we go to cook something it involves cleaning everything in the flat, flat mate and her boyfriend don't clean anything up and in order to have a clean environment to cook In you need to wash everything I have done this for weeks, I know it is boyfriends flat and he does do some cleaning when he is here (he works full time running his own company so often has 12-18 hour days) but I am sick of having to wash everything in order to cook a meal

Boyfriend tells me I shouldn't and to only wash what I need but in order the clean the worktops and cooker to be used everything needs moving so once that's been done you may as well have washed the damn things to start with. Boyfriend says he has done everything to sort this situation and now doesn't bother and that I shouldn't either but the kitchen literally makes me feel sick and I've ended up tonight (after cleaning for over an hour) telling him that I won't be back to stay over unless he sorts this out, he tells me he's tried and that even if he says anything it'll only change for a couple of days

Am I wrong to feel so frustrated and angry? It isn't for much longer until we get our own place but this is a huge issue for me and right now we aren't even speaking Sorry it's so long

OP posts:
Sansoora · 01/11/2015 10:32

Are you convinced he's going to pull his weight when you move in together?

Im more concerned that he seems to be a bloke who's had successive relationships with someone who has mental health problems, and now someone who has a disability.

He seems to concentrate on people who are vunerable.

Floggingmolly · 01/11/2015 10:36

Why is your bf paying rent on a flat when he's happy to continue living with his ex until his tenancy ends? and in fact has never actually left? Confused
Why don't both of you move in there?
All sounds ridiculously unnecessary.

SalemSaberhagen · 01/11/2015 11:03

Sansoora don't be so ridiculous.

Gruntfuttock · 01/11/2015 11:04

Floggingmolly It's the ex-girlfriend's boyfriend who has his own flat, not the OP's boyfriend.

Gruntfuttock · 01/11/2015 11:05

Sansoora what a nasty twisted way to look at things.

SalemSaberhagen · 01/11/2015 11:06

Sent too early.

concentrate on people who are vulnerable?

You make him sound like he is in the relationship with a sinister intent when there is nothing to suggest that in the OP's post. What a ludicrous response.

GashleyCrumbTiny · 01/11/2015 11:06

I totally get why it's annoying - but why would the people who live in the flat and don't care about the mess change their habits for the sake of a guest who doesn't live there? Their manky flat, their business.Either eat together less often, eat out, or have him round to your parents' till Jan. It's not far.

Eminado · 01/11/2015 11:10

I am not too sure what you are raging about tbh?

Why do you want to enforce cleaning standards on random people who owe you nothing?

  1. You have a plan w a fixed timeline ie an end point
  2. You have somewhere else to go until then (your place)

What are you hoping to achieve with this battle? Confused

Eminado · 01/11/2015 11:16

As someone said above, I too think it is convenient that the mess is all theirs but never your boyfriend's.

I think you should concentrate on this and clarify expectations before you move in together.

BlueBananas · 01/11/2015 11:25

This is all just too weird!

Sansoora · 01/11/2015 11:45

I accept my opinion has caused raised eyebrows but Im not going to change my mind. And for the time being I cant find the words to explain what I mean.

Floggingmolly · 01/11/2015 11:54

Do you need a carer, op? There does seem to be some issue with you living alone?

Gruntfuttock · 01/11/2015 12:00

She lives with her parents, Flogging Molly

Floggingmolly · 01/11/2015 12:41

But she said it's a "horrible situation" but necessary due to her disability...

Mintyy · 01/11/2015 12:54

This boils down to "my boyfriend lives in a flat with two other people who always leave the kitchen in a filthy state! We're moving to our own place together in January but in the meantime aibu to say to boyfriend that I don't want to eat or cook at his place?"

In answer to which I would say yabu, but, like others have noted, is he telling you the truth about the filth?

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