Anonymous wrote:8:04, omg this sounds miserable, I am so sorry you are going through this. Is there any way you guys could sit down and talk about your very valid feelings without it turning into an argument and him getting defensive and telling you those nasty things? If so I would sit down, calmly discuss and ask if there was a way we could come up with some arrangement so all the burden of his mess etc isn't put on you. I know this was an issue in our house, the opposite way actually DH is anal and I am more lax about the mess. I am not filthy like things you have mentioned about your DH but I hate picking up toys etc. Our solution was that we hired, and I pay for from my PT job a cleaning lady every week. I honestly think it's taken HUGE stress off our marriage and everyone is happy again, he gets his clean house and I am not the one having to do it.
Does this seem like something DH might go for, the $400 a month is so worth it for us. There are times when we go down to every other week and even that makes a huge difference.
We have a cleaning service but just use it once a month for heavy cleaning and sitter cleans living room, kitchen and family room daily. Maybe we should use a mote regular service but had agreed to once a month while saving towards next house.