As exciting as living with your partner may be, many couples struggle to get on the same page with cleaning .
He likes to leave almost-empty milk jugs in the fridge, but you find that lazy ? He doesn’t replace the toilet paper roll because he knows you’ll do it?
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These problems are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what one fed-up girlfriend is dealing with. As a result, she went on a cleaning strike.
Reddit user annabananakittycat brought her messy dilemma to Reddit’s AITA (Am I The Asshole) community.
She began by sharing her pet peeve: her boyfriend rarely returns items to where they belong.
This largely includes kitchen utensils, toilet paper, Q-Tips, and the cat food-feeding scooper. She’s not OCD; she just likes things in their rightful place.
The cat food scooper, specifically, has become a point of contention.
“He feeds the cats in the morning, and leaves the scoop by whoever he feeds last (they’re all fed in separate rooms, we have a fast eater),” she wrote. As a result, this creates more work for her.
“I feed the cats at night, and have to wander around until I find it, and then I put it back in with the cat food, which is where he goes in the morning,” she explained.
Soon, she gave him a taste of his own medicine, starting with the cat food scooper.
“I started replacing it to exactly where he leaves it now, and he’s getting annoyed it’s not in with the food in the morning.”
A similar approach was taken with toilet paper. Since he never replaces it, she said that she started bringing her own roll into the bathroom.
“And if the bathroom roll is empty, I don’t replace it. This goes for the qtips as well,” she wrote.
“He won’t replace them in the bathroom. I have not replaced them in a month and it seems like he just stopped using them…” Laziness at its finest, folks!
The worst offence, though, was definitely the way he *doesn’t* put away groceries.
Instead of putting away the groceries, he just “shoves all the bags into the fridge/freezer/pantry for me to empty later.” Say, whaat?
“I have stopped emptying the bags and organizing the fridge, and just remove my item from a bag and leave it as it was.”
The Redditor’s boyfriend hasn’t been fond of this new tratment.
“This probably upsets him the most, since last time he put a pack of chicken in the pantry last time, that I ‘didn’t notice,'” she wrote.
She assumed he would at least check the bags before placing them somewhere, but nope.
As a result of her refusing to clean after him, they’ve been fighting a lot about this.
This led the Redditor to wonder whether she’s in the wrong for trying to teach him an important lesson.
Thankfully, users let her know that it’s him who needs to clean up his act.
“Anybody who leaves grocery bags in the fridge is absolutely ridiculous and needs a wake-up call to actually doing their own [expletive,” wrote one user.
“Agree. That’s a level of lazy that I didn’t even realize existed, and I have made a career out of being lazy,” added another .
Others shared that her tactics will only work for so long.
“I hope you can keep this up but let me tell you if he fights it this much there is little hope he will ever truly change,” Reddit user Nijura108 wrote . “My guess is if he changes it will only hold for a short while before he goes back to being a lazy idiot.”
It was later revealed that the boyfriend is *38*. “Is he your boyfriend or a toddler?” one user fittingly wrote.
Many believe she needs to RUN.
“He’s not going to change, and he’s looking at you as less of a partner and more of a mom/maid/sex provider. Please reconsider why you’re with this man,” Redditor She’sDaBomb wrote .
You can read the full story here !
