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Dear FI, (warning, long vent)

I was really looking forward to marrying you in 3 weeks and spending the rest of our lives together but I'm afraid there has been a change in plans.  Instead I'm going to have to kill you.        Your sign that it's time to empty your bathroom trash can is when it's overflowing onto the floor.  This does not mean you continue to throw stuff on top creating more trash on the floor.  It also doesn't mean that you should hide empty soap/shampoo/toothpaste bottles in the cabinet.         I do all of the shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundry, wedding planning and work 10 hours more than you a week.  Not to mention commute twice as far.  I know and accept that you're a slob but please make an effort to not add to the mess.  This means occasionally helping with the dishes, not leaving beer bottles all over the house and hidding them behind things, it takes much less effort to throw them in the trash.  And your socks on the family room floor - really?         I wash, dry, fold and almost always put away your laundry.  On the rare occasion I leave them folded on the spare bed because I'm too busy to put them away, please do not rummage through them to the point they end up in a big messy pile.       As you know, I dispise clutter.  However, living with someone requires compromise.  As much as it drives me crazy I can deal with a small pile of your shiit on the kitchen counter.  When this pile gets to be taller than me I'm not happy.      I love you and hope we can come to a solution to allow us to continue with our wedding plans.Love,   Jenni

Re: Dear FI, (warning, long vent)

  • haha your FI sounds like mine!  Seriously what is wrong with guys that they don't understand when the trash is full empty it, when the laundry basket is full do it. 
  • LOL! I know exactly how you feel...I'm a neat freak and Nick used to be really really messy...I had the sabe overflowing trash can and empty bottle in very unexpected places. But I guess he learned the hard way not to piss of a Puerto Rican...hahahahaha Now he cleans the house maybe better than I do ;-)
  • Wow I can relate to a few things on this post haha! He can be so messy sometimes, leaving piles of clothes on the floor & dirty dishes on the counters...*sigh* good thing we compromise & he does the dishes every night...still sometimes i just want to gag him with a pair of his own dirty boxers haha bet that would shock him into picking up his stuff :)
  • Oh h*llllllllllllllllllll no!  You better not let him get away with those kinds of shenanigans.My fi used to be a slob, too, but I politely reminded him that this is our home now, and adults do not live like that.  When I get home and he is glued to the TV, I simply ask him to do whatever task it might be.  I don't make any snide comments/etc.  If he puts off a task, I leave a note on the fridge.  And when the weekend comes around, it it's still not done, we don't leave the house until it is.You are not his mother, and it is very sweet of you to clean up after him! 
  • OMG!  I thought I was the only one marrying a total slob....I'm laughing at the "hiding the beer bottles behind other things" and the socks are all over our livingroom floor.  I'm really shocked the dog hasn't eaten them all!What we do for love.....
  • Amen sister! Our FI's could be twins. I can relate to every single thing in your post. Too bad we love them anyway ;)
  • Man, I feel ya on the sloppy FI!!Mine is only home on the weekends, yet somehow Monday morning our place looks like a tornado hit!It seems like they do this stuff to irritate us, but sometimes I think their eyes just can't see the mess.  BOYS!
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  • Haha!  I love this! I totally here you on this one: "leaving beer bottles all over the house"
  • It's like you read my mind! So glad to know I am not the only one who thinks those things and feels that way sometimes. Hang in there :-)
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  • This seriously made me LOL at work! Hang in there Jenni, kick his butt into gear!!
  • ahhahahahah!!  Too funny!  I wonder if your FI and my FI went to the same sloppy school?!  He was so much cleaner when he had his own place.  When we moved in together, he turned messy overnight!
  • This is too funny Jenni. However, I must say at the possible jealousy of everyone that my fi is a psyhco cleaner!!! The man does it all. The laundry folding, the dishes (which I hate to do), the yardwork, washes the dogs, and spends the rest of the time wanting to throw half of my things out because he says I'm a clutterer! Now, before you all tell me to shut up.....I have the opposite problem from Jenni. My fi never stops to have one moment of peace with me and he moves my stuff all over the house so it can be "in it's place".  He is so O.C. that the one day he is in town a week he MUST wash my car or he just about has a nervous breakdown! Seriously! I wish my fi was more messy! Just so we could have a break and spend time together that wasn't cleaning something. Ughhhh! Jenni, why can't we mix our guys together??? We would have the perfect man!!!
  • Aww...don't kill him! LOL... My FI and I don't live together yet, but I can tell his is messy and a pack rat. I alreay know I will be throwing things away when his back is turned. LOL.
  • Ha! I can completely relate to every word of this!
  • Allison - that's totally bizarre.  We are living the same life.  Down to the chicken last night!  One exception, I don't do anything on the side currently but my FI is PUSHING me to start my own business.  I have told him over and over that I don't want to.  I finally said I will seriously discuss it with you AFTER the wedding.  And he doesn't understand why it has to wait.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised, it's not like he has to do anything other than go to work, come home and veg for 6 hours.  Plus he eats fast food at least once a day and is thin without working out.       If you saw my confession yesterday, you would know that my house was so gross that I didn't even want to use my own bathroom.  Last night I cleaned until after midnight and then Shredded.  That annoyed him because I Shred in the bedroom and he couldn't go to sleep.  Ugh Men!
  • Yep.  Womens Lib = The dumbest thing EVER.  Now do all those things you did before + work a full time job.
  • Jenni!! That is too funny b/c he tried to go to bed early last night, but I decided I was going to finally put away my 3 baskets of laundry, so I turned all the lights on in the bedroom & was moving around so he couldn't sleep! Ha! Jerks....
  • LOL, hilarious!  My FI doesn't drink but leaves candy wrappers and cheese wrappers (the ones from the Kraft singles) EVERYWHERE.  I've found them in the kitchen cupboards, in our vases, etc!  The funny thing is he is neurotic about vaccuming.  He insists on vacumming at least once a week if not more, but he doens't have enough energy to put his wrappers in the garbage can, LOL!  MEN!!!
  • Count me in! FI is in the habit of leaving his dirty socks/underwear on the back of the toilet tank when he takes a shower. I say if these boys don't turn it around, we start digging a mass grave. lol
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