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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband never did chores as a child and grew up in kind of a dirty home.  It’s a little frustrating sometimes because he doesn’t seem to realize that they need to be done or how long they take.  He has had periods in his own in the house for a few weeks here and there, and when I get back, he tells me that the fang shui is off or that we need to redecorate.  No man, you need to vacuum and dust and do your laundry.  And it takes a couple of hours.  
There are a lot of things I love about him, but this drives me nuts.  [/quote]

My husband is similar, but his single mom definitely had a dirty home. He still has trauma over roaches because of an infestation and subsequent bombing where they had to clean up all of the dead bugs.

He's pretty good about cleaning because his mom was so disgusting while I was the one who never really did chores growing up, so I drove him nuts by not cleaning as I go when making food. However, now that we have kids, I'm the one more obsessed with cleaning, since babies will literally find and lick food off the floor.

I'd love a housekeeper... but believe we should be teaching our kids to clean and I worry they're growing up too privileged.  [/quote]

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