What jobs do you and your partner have a "stand-off" on and who caves?

[Steala]

For me, it is taking the rubbish out. We compress it and compress it until it is the density of lead. One of us will then cave... usually my husband. If I try to, it is too heavy for me to lift by that stage!

But... My mum is coming to look after the kids today and I didn't feel it was fair to involve her in my pettiness so I just took it out. Taking out non-compressed rubbish is, I discovered, a dream! Easy to pull out, nice and light. Easy to put in the dustbin, bag didn't split, room at the top to hold the bag, rather than sort of hugging the rubbish.

What a revelation!

Taking all the glass and plastic to the recycling place, it sits outside my back door and gets blown about till it looks like we ARE the tip, and its me who ends up taking it.
Dont bother to argue over it anymore, just accept it.

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yes,the dog poo,I did it the other day,only to save the poor window cleaners shoes
and the recycling of glass,tha garage is currently overflowing...I will not crack!

i told my dh that i wasn't going to wash the pots after last nights tea - which admittedly he cooked - but i was working. got the usual "later" response so i said " when the builders come tomorrow, i'm not running round like sommat not right. i'll just bin it. then you will have fuck all to eat off"

he caved.

With my ex, he used to leave computer parts lying around, kitchen surfaces, the dining table, in the badroom, windowsills etc. Every imaginable surface. then i cracked. i told him he had 3 days to clear them all away or i would bin them.

And I DID.

With my ex, he used to leave computer parts lying around, kitchen surfaces, the dining table, in the badroom, windowsills etc. Every imaginable surface. then i cracked. i told him he had 3 days to clear them all away or i would bin them.

And I DID.