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Tidiness Boyfriend and sex

112 replies

Mushybanna23 · 12/09/2017 11:23

Live with my boyfriend have done for a year now. He moved in with me and my family, we have a small room to ourselves with sink fridge amicrowave oven tv and sofa. it's tiny and really more inconvenient to use. Then we share a bedroom which up untill a year ago had 22 years of my stuff. I really struggle with change and tidiness. He knew I was a messy person before he moved in a fully warned him. I said I was willing to make a change. A year on I've chucked out so much stuff I no longer needed had a few massive tidy ups. I've tried to keep on top of it but with work my nan passing away and my slight laziness it's always last on my list after work. I do all the cleaning though I Hoover wash up replace toilet roll cook dinner and do the food shop. I don't mind doing all of that as I work less than him and he pays more rent earns more and I'm
Home in winter at 4. We want to buy a house next march but I don't want to unless we actually start having sex it happens so little I've tried everything. Every time I mention sex he jokes when it's tidy you can have sex like I'm some kind of child. Before all of this he was always to tired for sex. We have no space for anything wardrobe is full so I have baskets of cloths around the place with no place to go I keep washing them hanging what I can up and then it all haveing to be folded and left in the basket again. Aibu to give him the ultimatum or am I being unfair with my mess. Would renting a proper flat or house for 6 months as a tester work as an idea

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TheOldCow · 12/09/2017 12:09

If he was that bothered about housework he'd fucking do some of it

TBF the OP has said it's her mess so I don't think the boyfriend should be tidying it up.

Aintgotnosoapbox · 12/09/2017 12:09

This all sounds a bit strange, and it's difficult to know what he wants out of this - wonder what the circumstances around him moving in were, what were his alternatives?
I don't think it sounds like a loving relationship.

Mushybanna23 · 12/09/2017 12:09

Parents have gone away for weeks on end still no sex he can afford to live on his own he pays market rent for a one room. But he gets swimming pool home office big garden close to work and my mums saving the rent for us but if we break up mum will give him back half or enough for deposit on somewhere to live

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TheOldCow · 12/09/2017 12:13

So why are you with him?

clairethewitch70 · 12/09/2017 12:13

Sounds like he doesn't want you, just a room to live in. Sorry OP.

NikiBabe · 12/09/2017 12:17

But he gets swimming pool home office big garden close to work and my mums saving the rent for us

Sounds like he enjoys that set up for the price of renting a room. Why is it just a big deal if your room is untidy when your paretns have opened that kind of home to him.

You get the run of it for weeks on end, you can shag in any room you choose and he still doesn't want to.

He isnt really living with you. He is taking advantage of cheap rent for a house like that and will get his rent back at the end of it if you break up so it is a win win for him.

He is young and in his peak sexually. He isn't wanting to sleep with you at all parents there or not. It sounds as if he is making excuses not to rather than being serious about the mess.

I'd call time on it.

SwimmingInLemonade · 12/09/2017 12:32

To be fair to your boyfriend, I couldn't find someone as slovenly as this attractive enough to have sex with either.

I don't think OP sounds slovenly at all. If you're living in one room most of the time and have a normal number of possessions (eg more than a buddhist monk) it's not going to look like a minimalist haven. Plus she's the one doing all the cooking and cleaning...

OP, I'm sorry it sounds like he doesn't fancy you much. As PP have said, most 20-something men wouldn't be put off sex by an untidy bedroom! He might naturally have a low sex drive but obviously in that aspect you're going to be incompatible. But he does like the set up of living in a much nicer place than he could afford otherwise (and getting all the rent back at the end!) So essentially he is living rent free!)

You could go back to living separately and see if things improve but I suspect once his nifty home set up is removed he'll get lost!

Mushybanna23 · 12/09/2017 12:32

I'm with him because he makes me happy the fun we have together. last night we spent ages annoyingly chasing each other around the house giggling. The trips we go on we've been to London stayed at the shard been to Paris our Friday movie nights I've never felt happier with someone

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Mushybanna23 · 12/09/2017 12:34

When we first started dating he took weeks to kiss me and have sex he was very awkward person

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astoundedgoat · 12/09/2017 12:39

This has been going on for a while, OP, hasn't it? Baskets of clothes everywhere, cramped conditions - I remember you posting about this before.

Do you get anything at all out of the relationship? It doesn't sound like either of you could possibly be enjoying this very much. Why are you living together? Or even in a relationship in the first place?

DiegoMadonna · 12/09/2017 13:01

The trips we go on we've been to London stayed at the shard been to Paris our Friday movie nights I've never felt happier with someone

You can have all of those things PLUS good regular sex if you're with someone who finds you attractive and you're sexually compatible with. You should try it - it's awesome.

KungFuEric · 12/09/2017 13:05

How often is the sex? Are we talking once a fortnight? Or nothing for months?

Shumpalumpa · 12/09/2017 13:05

He won't have anymore sex with you than he is now, O, even if you moved into a mansion.

He is either asexual, gay or just not into you.

Time to ditch him and find someone who will run arond after you in your home and then have sex with you! Flowers

Don't waste anymore time on him.

SonicBoomBoom · 12/09/2017 13:19

last night we spent ages annoyingly chasing each other around the house giggling.

No sex. Messy bedroom. The above...

It sounds like my 9 year old niece and her 'boyfriend's' relationship.

Seriously.

TheHodgeoftheHedge · 12/09/2017 13:24

How old are you OP? This sounds like a first big relationship. It doesn't have to be the last...

Agerbilatemycardigan · 12/09/2017 13:27

He's using you OP. Get rid.

Creambun2 · 12/09/2017 18:52

Are you more middle class than him?

Mushybanna23 · 12/09/2017 18:57

Defiantly not if anything he's more upper class as am I both from wealthy family's

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AlternativeTentacle · 12/09/2017 19:04

I'm with him because he makes me happy the fun we have together.

Not sexy fun though?

zzzzz · 12/09/2017 19:06

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indigox · 12/09/2017 19:13

How often have you actually had sex? Have you tried talking about it beyond his response of "you'll get sex when its tidy"?

Tiba · 12/09/2017 19:42

My boyfriend moved in with me and my family for 6 minutes baths last year while we were buying a house.

We had all our possessions stored in our room as we had moved out of a flat.

It was cramped but we both cleaned when nessecary and he shagged me most days of the weeks.

The mess and cramped conditions didn't affect us fancying each other

Tiba · 12/09/2017 19:43

For 6 months! Not minutes

Ginertia · 12/09/2017 19:51

I don't get it sorry.

In your OP you're talking like you're cramped into a little room, mess everywhere and no room for anything.

Then you're saying your family are wealthy and your house has a pool? Yet you can't fit your clothes in a wardrobe and keep your clothes in baskets?!

Why not spend some money on a wardrobe? If you've got £500 a night to stay at the Shard you can afford another wardrobe. Or keep some clothes in another room? I couldn't live in that kind of mess and wouldn't find anyone who did attractive.

DisorderedAllsorts · 12/09/2017 20:01

Why would you want to tie yourself financially to a person like this? Do not buy a house with this man at all. It doesn't sound like you have anything in common. What do you do in your spare time? Do you go out socially together? Do you have any common interests or hobbies together?

Get rid of him and move out into a flat or studio by yourself and enjoy life.

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