It sounds like he has some kind of OCD have you mentioned that to him he might need to get advice about it as that sounds quite severe to me especially what you said about one crumb? I’d have to set boundaries it’s your home as well to love how you please as long as your being tidy as you go I don’t see an issue! If my partner ever says anything to me I just hand him the stuff and say fix it then or offer to just start doing just mine and babies washing and doing our dishes etc and he can do everything of his for himself and he soon shuts up 😂 at the end of the day your house is a home not a show home it sounds to me like he needs advice to deal with this urge to always clean!
@Paige @Anneliese I have mentioned it to him, and he's agreed he probably does have some sort of OCD, but he would never go get help for something like that. I don't want to diagnose him but if I were to guess I think he does have OCD, he's so particular about everything. I can watch him spend a 20-30 minutes meticulously combing each hair on his head into place every morning, and he doesn't have particularly long hair or anything.. He will not leave the house without doing certain things, he is stereotypically neat/tidy, has impeccable hygiene, he's so obsessive with his oral hygiene, every time we're in a shop I need to pull him away from buying another tube of toothpaste, because we always have about 4 or 5 in the bathroom unit already. The cushions on the sofa need to be in a certain order, that drives me mad.. I could go on and on. I've lived with it for somany years that it's just what I'm used to but with baby in our lives now it has really started to grind on me because I can't keep up anymore 😮💨
I feel like he could do with a dose of your life. Could you go away for 24-48 hours and leave him with little one. So he could get a taste of how tough it is for you and how his extreme cleaning routine is not possible while looking after a toddler.
Stop doing the chores so he sees what exactly you do
Get a cleaner, seriously. Me and my husband were bickering like mad over housework as he claimed to do more of it in response to when i said he needed to do more childcare. I went back to work full time so with the money i haven't dropped by not dropping days/hours i justified getting a cleaner and the bickering was stopped in its tracks. I'm getting loads more help with baby too. Much MUCH fairer all round for me.
I think he’s being a bit extreme wiping the skirting boards every week, bloody hell I don’t even do it once a month 😅 do you think he’s got some kind of OCD