Woman Divorces Husband For Cleaning. Huh?

nemesis1
wrote on April 6 2009 @ 04:24 pm: [report]

“How ‘bout we send them all our lazy, toothless, masses of men and they can send us their productive, toilet scrubbing ones.”

How ‘bout we send someone else our masses of shallow, self-centered, know-nothing girls and they send us some of their strong, capable, honorable women?

BTW - Knowing European family courts, they’ll probably still give her half his stuff.

Lexie
wrote on April 6 2009 @ 05:54 pm: [report]

I can kind of understand how this woman feels. My boyfriend has to tidy up the room before we have sex. The other night I got really fed up with it because I was in a very playful mood and wanted a quickie. We ran into the bedroom and he told me to hold on a sec while he picked up some shirts. I waited and waited and waited. He folded the laundry, adjusted the blinds and curtains, and put the clothes away. THEN he was ready. I however was not. The mood was done and dead.

ohohoh
wrote on April 7 2009 @ 10:19 am: [report]

There is a book (and a calendar, too):
Link
My boyfriend is constantly offering to clean my room. Who am I to deprive him of such a constructive use of time?

jimnist10
wrote on April 7 2009 @ 11:07 am: [report]

I agree that OCD is probably not fun to live with and good for her for putting up with it for 15 years, but I appreciate a man who does housework without being asked.  For example, my boyfriend (who just so happens to be German), cooks, does the dishes, helps with the laundry, and walks the dog (even picks up her poop) without being asked.  He just offers or (shock!) WANTS to do it because he knows it helps me. If this is what Germans are like, then we definitely need them to be giving American boys a lesson. Never have I ever dated an American guy who did any of those things without acting like it was some special treat for me and expecting huge amounts of praise and/or a blow job. It’s also entirely possible that I’ve dated a bunch of jerks irrespective of their nationality…

Erin G
wrote on April 7 2009 @ 12:40 pm: [report]

Okay, that’s that. I’m moving to Germany after hearing Jimnist’s story!

EastCoastMale
wrote on April 7 2009 @ 12:56 pm: [report]

jimnist…I think the latter may be true in that it may have just been their personality and not that they were American. I like to have a partnership that is productive rather than “treating” a S.O. to taking out the trash lol

EarthGoddess
wrote on April 7 2009 @ 01:29 pm: [report]

I love that my hubby does his fair share of the housework. However, I have OCD and cannot tolerate even the slightest bit of clutter/mess/dirt/disorder/whatever you wanna call it, so this guy and I would have the cleanest house ever! It would so rock!

rsonnack
wrote on April 14 2009 @ 04:53 pm: [report]

I actually have to go with nemesis on this one, even though i have definitely disagreed with other comments of his/hers before. Olivia, your choice of words was not great in that particular section. I understand you were trying to be funny, but we are very sensitive to even the most obvious of jokes targeting women, so we should do the same for men. Let’s not man-hate

angelspinning
wrote on May 28 2009 @ 09:28 am: [report]

“I want you to WANT to do the dishes!”
“Why would I want to do the dishes?”