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For feeling guilty about DS1?

15 replies

OverTheHammer · 31/07/2017 12:41

He's 18.

He's the scruffiest git going, bedroom looks like a junkie den with takeaway wrappers, crisp packets, bottles and cans all over the floor. No sheet or duvet cover on his bed (I washed it, he just couldn't be arsed to put it on). He pisses all over the bathroom floor, down the side of the bog, on the wall, the radiator is rusting because it's constantly been splashed with piss. He gets a shower and leaves wet towels on the floor, in the bath, in the sink or on his bedroom floor, makes food and leaves shit all over the kitchen, wipes grease up with a tea towel, burns the pans or just doesn't but clean them so they get ruined ...

Apart from the mess he's loud, slams doors (not in anger, just because he's such a loud person), stomps around, slings doors open at 2/3 o clock in the morning, gets up for work and wakes everyone up slamming and stomping around ...

He torments the dog, always needs to be "in" if people are busy (small kitchen, someone goes to make food so he decides he needs to be in there at the same time and all hell breaks loose ...

Anyway I feel guilty because I've found myself hinting at him to move out. I would never kick my kids out and I love him dearly but he's just so hard to live with - so loud, so messy, so dramatic ... I gave him a lift yesterday and after yet another discovery of pissy bathroom and wet towels, ironing board stuck out in dining room, clothes on the table ... I found myself ranting at him about needing to be more considerate with the rest of the family and "flats are not that expensive you know ... I could help you with it ... " Sad he went quiet and now I feel dead guilty but the noise and mess stresses me out so much and nothing I say makes any difference!! Was I out of order?

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RebornSlippy · 31/07/2017 12:44

No you are not out of order at all. I'm surprised you got this far. I imagine it takes quite a bit of time for a radiator to rust from piss splashes. I understand your guilt, but I couldn't live with him either. He needs to shape up or ship out.

upperlimit · 31/07/2017 12:46

Guilty?

I'd put him in a tent in the back garden and tell him it's in his best interest to become house trained before winter.

OverTheHammer · 31/07/2017 12:49

He's a lovely lad, never in trouble, lovely girlfriend, hard working but god the mess and noise. The other morning he woke everyone up getting ready for work slamming doors, running up and down stairs, rarving at cupboard doors, dropping things ... DH goes in a mood over it and I always feel stuck in the middle, I find him annoying too but he's my son and I love him - but I can't but feel everyone (including him) would be happier if he had his own place (with support obviously)

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ShutUpBaz · 31/07/2017 12:49

Tent? Sounds like he needs a kennel?!
I'd kick him out. Sounds unbearable!

BertrandRussell · 31/07/2017 12:54

No one who expects other people to clean up their piss is a "lovely lad".

bigbluebus · 31/07/2017 12:56

I feel your pain. I have one very similar - although he is not scruffy - just everything else he touches. If he spent as much time tidying up everything else as he does in the shower and preening himself then there wouldn't be a problem. I'm afraid I have a fairly low threshold for tolerating this sort of stuff so he gets called back to clean up his mess in the kitchen/ piss off the toilet seat/bring down crockery and food waste on a regular basis - and he too gets told that if he doesn't like the 'nagging' he has 2 choices - do it without having to be told or find a flat. I don't feel guilty about it OP and neither should you. YOur DS is BU.

Pengggwn · 31/07/2017 13:05

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CauliflowerSqueeze · 31/07/2017 13:10

He doesn't sound very socialised.

Aquamarine1029 · 31/07/2017 13:11

Why do you allow him to live like this in your home?

livefornaps · 31/07/2017 13:12

He sounds disgusting and as if he was due for a wake up call.

BigSandyBalls2015 · 31/07/2017 13:14

How on earth did he bag a 'lovely girlfriend'!!

Mumof56 · 31/07/2017 13:30

Next time his lovely girl friend is over; ask him in front of her to clean up his puss and explain about the rusting radiator.

This guy needs a kick up the ass. Encourage him to move out and stop giving him lifts. He acts like a selfish child because he is allowed to.

He's working and should be eager to get his owb place. Why would you feel guilty. It's the next step in adulthood. Stop running around after him, pandering to him

errorofjudgement · 31/07/2017 13:30

Definitely not unreasonable to be fed up, but you've raised him and enabled him to behave this way.
Why on earth have you put up with it for so long?
By 11 or 12 he was definitely old enough to make him clean the bathroom - every single time he left it in such a state.
Same with the kitchen.
Bedrooms are a bit different I think because they're not of a shared space (although it sounds as though it's disgusting in there too)
I'm sorry but unless there are additional factors that you haven't mentioned, you've created this man-child, you and your DH need to work with him to improve his attitude.

DSHathawayGivesMeFannyGallops · 31/07/2017 13:37

If that's how he treats your house, you'd better warn him that a landlord might not be so tolerant of his pissy, radiator corroding ways when it comes to giving a deposit back. Although it might buck him up a little in that area (he sounds a gem otherwise).

AlphaBites · 31/07/2017 13:43

You've mentioned 'with support' for him to live out. Does he have additional needs or is this support in the form if someone helping tidy up after himself ?
I'm going to assume it's the latter as you say he works and has a gf.

Mine would have been read the riot act for such a mess in the bathroom alone ! Has he done any cleaning chores as a teen himself ? If not. Start NOW - it sounds grim.

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