Arguing over cleaning

[BoredAdminGirl]

As the title suggests, myself and my DP have been arguing a lot lately (a lot this morning) about my crap cleaning skills.

Apparently leaving my hair spray, brush etc in the living room is causing dp great stress.

I admit, she does do most of the cleaning but then I do most of the cooking.

I dont want to argue over these things, any advice on how I can train my lazy arse to be a better person!?

If you cooked her a meal and she poured bleach into it and wrecked it so you had to start all over again, how would you feel? That's the equivalent of what you're doing when you're making her nice tidy rooms untidy again!

Lol. What utter bullshit.

To be honest, I'd find it so difficult living with somebody like this! It's a fecking hairbrush. Jees. I've had a necklace on my table in my front room for well over a week now. And I couldn't care less. If my DP is an obsessive freak when he moves in, I might have to drop kick him.

I like to compromise of getting ready in the spare room though. I imagine DP and I will do this when we move in; have our work wardrobes in the spare room so if one of us needs to leave/get ready early, we're not disturbing the other.

Don't hold back, Ginger, tell us what you really think!!

I'm guessing no-one loses their rag if one thing is left out of place one time. However, if you've asked someone 17,000 times to do something and they still don't do it and you have to tidy up after them every single day (including when you are on leave) then tempers are probably going to fray. I interpreted "leaving my hairbrush" as very much a repeat thing, and not a single occurrence - the verb suggests that to me, though I can see that there's another way of reading it!

I know a couple that got divorced because the guy would NOT put the lid back on the toothpaste (back in the day when those lids screwed on). It wasn't even about the lid in the end, it was about a fundamental inability on his part to listen, and on her part to live with the constant tidying up after him, not just in the bathroom but everywhere. It became a kind of symbol of everything else that he did to annoy her.