Men!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

southernscouser

Ladies, feel free to take your frustrations out on me! :cool:

arnie&caseysma!

southernscouser wrote:

Ladies, feel free to take your frustrations out on me! :cool:

Hey no probs Scouse! So long as you promise to do all the chores aswell as letting us beat you!:p

Emms

I tried to go on strike once. I didnt do any housework for 2 weeks but unfortunately neither did OH so I gave in when I couldnt live with the mess anymore and started doing it again.

Emma

BrandNewDay

I see that I'm very, very blessed! I'm a SAHM and I believe it's my job to do all the housework. I guess I'm lucky because my standards are a bit higher than DH's, so he doesn't have much to complain about. And, he's very willing to help out - although it does take a bit of nagging, sometimes. Even husbands who WANT to help have to be told explicitely what to do, I've noticed. It's not enough to expect them to SEE that something needs doing... you have to tell them "OK, now, please vaccuum the living room. I'd like you to move the furniture and also get under the cushions." If I ask him like that he'll do exactly that. "Please vaccuum the living room" is NOT sufficient!

I sometimes get exasperated with him, but I shouldn't. He's really sweet and tries so hard to be helpful. Our second baby is due any day now and he knows that I'll be needing all the help I can get.

margaretclare

I would absolutely not stay in any marriage/relationship with an OH who treated me/spoke to me as the OP describes. I am 71, happily in a second marriage, coming up to 5th anniversary and been together for 9 years. He frequently says 'Trust and Respect are essential in any relationship - love is a bonus'. We find so often that we are on the same wavelength. Housework etc is not important - he said only yesterday that being able to talk to each other, to understand, to get a sensible response, is the reason he is here at all. If it was otherwise then he wouldn't be.

HTH

Margaret

cookiesncream

Out of interest, does anyone have a partner who has high standards to the extreme and will moan about the slightest thing out of place?

elona

Auntie Margaret

Loved your comments -DH knows I tend to be slapdash when it comes to housework but he appreciates my cooking and knows that I will help in other ways - admin for work or finding info that he needs.
He has been at home now for the last two weeks and we have been able to talk or go on internet quite companionably without feeling "pressured!"
Nice to feel that "!" am more important than the tasks that I do, if you know what i mean.

Horasio

alwaysonthego wrote:

Is it just me or do other women suffer from husbanditis!!!!!!!!

When I cook a meal, it doesn't matter how much I enjoy it, he always finds faults.

He thinks I am lazy and just sit and watch jezza kyle all day, in fact I attend college three times a week having to push a double buggy up hill a mile either way. I do all the laundry, cooking, cleaning, look after kids(2 and 9 mths), deal with finances and trying to get my essays done on time the list goes on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why does he think he's always right and won't listen to me when he's not.

Men can't live with or without them .........just call me supermum

I would give him beans on toast or something dead easy and cheap. My son is the same. My husband really appreciates what I cook tho'

I could quite easily live without men

Crazychik

Contains_Mild_Peril wrote:

I'm tempted to leave my hubby's washing and just do my own and my son's (when he remembers to put it in the washing basket - I don't pick it up off the floor for him), but I don't think I could stand the smell of his festering socks until he would finally run out of clean ones and start washing them!

I would put them in bin bags, until he gets the hint, it worked with my ex - so it may do for you - good luck !

Crazychik

cookiesncream wrote:

Out of interest, does anyone have a partner who has high standards to the extreme and will moan about the slightest thing out of place?

If so - can I borrow him please ! lol