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Frustrated, Fiance doesn't help with the house! Help!?

Alright this isn't so much a question, however I do need advice. I'm really getting upset over this.

My fiance and I have lived together for 6 months and during that time we both worked and paid the bills yet I was stuck with most of the housework! It didn't bother me so much at first but it gets old having to pretty much do EVERYTHING, or it not getting done.

While this weekend my mom asked me to come over to help her with something, but before I left I cleaned the house, it wasn't immaculate but it was pretty clean. When I got back it was a mess, and he claimed he hadn't done anything and it was like that when I left. Then I discover one of my favorite and expensive blankets that I got as a present he ruined... his puppy peed on it then he washed it with a pen!

It just infuriates me! Even when he does do something to help out like laundry he doesn't finish it! He doesn't fold it he just throws it in a basket like that helps then its wrinkled and I don't even know if its clean or not cause he just leaves it for days. Its just a waste of the soap I BUY! I'm just really mad because I have to do everything and he just gives me more work!

I could go on and on but I think everyone gets the picture so I will restrain. I really resent him and now that I'm starting college and he will be supporting us I think its even a bigger problem cause I feel like maybe I owe him but thats not a marriage and we are supposed to be getting married and a team, I shouldn't have to do everything!

Update:

@Erik and anyone else who doesn't understand why I have to rewash what he washed rather than folding and putting it away is because I can't tell if its washed or dirty, because he throws it back where our dirty clothes goes!

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    You sound like a total biatch. I would not recommend getting married, he will want to divorce you.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    The picture I get is you are crazy and exaggerating. "it gets old having to pretty much do EVERYTHING, or it not getting done." But then you complain about what happened when he does laundry. I'm not sure how laundry sitting in a basket unfolded is a waste of soap, but if he's willing to gather the laundry, put it in the machine, run it, move it to the dryer, run the dryer and load it back up why the hell is it so CRAZY for you to put it away? You sound like you want to control his life and be his master instead of attempting to find a compromise that actually works for both.

  • 9 years ago

    Is the sex good? If it isn't then I have no clue as to why you are living with this dude let alone getting married to him!

    Sometimes $50 a week to a housekeeper is worth it! So for $2,600 a year you can have a clean house and a happy marriage!

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Then talk to him. If you have, and he still refuses to help...then go on strike. I had to with my fiance. He got used to me doing all the cleaning & laundry, so he wouldn't do anything cause he knew I would eventually. So I washed only mine & my daughters clothes, did only our dishes & left his in the sick, stopped picking up after him....he finally got it & started cleaning. Not to mention I would get snappy with him. He doesn't always get up & clean & he asks the most annoying question 'what do you want me to do?" instead of taking initiative & just doing it himself. But now he notices that I'm about to get to my b*tchy stage & he will clean

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  • 9 years ago

    You're right. It's supposed to be a team effort. My suggestion is you just stop completely. No cleaning, no laundry, no sex. Just, STOP. Eventually he will either get the hint or have to do something on his own. If he asks you to do it, tell him to do it his damn-self.

    If phase 1 doesn't work, proceed to phase 2:

    Phase 2: Get a real man.

  • ron-D
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    How old is this mama's boy? His parents should've done a better job raising him to respect his home, be neat and clean, and to give 50-50 in a relationship concerning everything. He's your problem now. You either like it or not. Don't expect him to change.

  • 9 years ago

    1) WTF are you engaged to someone who is so immature that he can't even manage simple stuff like picking up after himself? What do you think is going to happen when you have some real issues to deal with?

    2) If you are just starting college, WTF are you engaged to ANYONE?

    Do yourself a favor and get out of the silly "must get married before I'm 21" mentality. Or enjoy your life of marital misery with an immature jerk.

  • bob p
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    here is something to try, only clean up your stuff. don't do his laundry, don't cook anything (just eat out by yourself) don't do anything for him. And if that does not work, like another person said go to plan "B"

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