Married Ladies! Can a messy man be trained?

[asscherisme]

No

 

[CaptAubrey]

Date: 12/3/2006 11:30:10 AM
Author: ladykemma
a professional, thorough housekeeper is the best ulcer and divorce prevention.

we have one who even does our laundry. we pay her twice the going rate. she spends an 8 hour day in our house on mondays.

a housekeeper can''t deal with clutter, though, all they do is dust your piles.

Funny, because ours will put everything away so that I can never find things after she''s cleaned.

On the orginal question, No, not without a lot of nagging. You can address specific things, e.g., please throw your used dental floss in the trash instead of on the counter (a flaw of mine), or please don''t run the good knives through the dishwasher (one of Mrs Aubrey''s), but fundamentally, if he''s a slob now, he''ll be a slob at 60.

 

[bookworm21]

Yep, hard to change a guy''s habits. Mine has the same bad habit as Capt. Aubrey''s: dental floss left wherever he happened to use it (usually counter or bathtub). Kicker is that he''ll turn around and try to blame me for it when I call him out.

Then again, I''m a terrible housekeeper, and he never complains about that. Things don''t get dirty, I clean the floors, kitchen, toilet, etc. I just can''t seem to put things away. He''s just as bad as I am, and although we both try to change, I think we''re never going to.

So if he is sloppy now, I think it''ll be a very difficult job for you to get him to change. It MAY happen gradually, but it many not happen at all.

 

[codex57]

We have two couple friends that swear a housekeeper saved their marriages. Housekeepers that will organize and put away clutter. Not just dust.