Little but FIERCE (Little's Thread #5)

[Little]

To remind myself, a post from my Facebook (no mutual friends can see my posts about BF on Facebook):

"Since moving into my own home, I've surprised myself by becoming an OCD cleaner. I vacuum four times a week (or more if it looks like it needs doing), sweep twice a day, and wet Swiffer the floors. I actually want to move things to get under them, so that I have less to do later and it doesn't build.

It's so much of a relief when you're the only one contributing to the mess and legitimately the only one responsible for cleaning it (as opposed to where two contribute to the mess and yet only one bothers to clean).
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[NAME REDACTED] That doesn't surprise me at all, I am the same way. It's easier to be inspired by pride when the results are not being undermined.
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[LITTLE BUT FIERCE] I think, toward the end of living in my old apartment, I got so beat down over the fact that if I didn't do [censored] it didn't get done....that I stopped doing [censored]. It wears you down to be the only a$$hole doing what needs to be done.
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[ANOTHER FRIEND] I would ask my ex to at least load the dirty dishes into the washer because I worked full time and was carrying 2-3 classes at night. He barely worked 40 hrs a week and was 10 mins from home. (I was also primary breadwinner, made almost twice what he did.) We'd bicker because he'd put it off but would yell at me if I just started doing it. But the day I found maggots growing on the counter under a pan, I'd had it and just started doing it myself again.

He had the nerve to talk behind my back about what a terrible housekeeper I was, too.

Good effing riddance! 2015 marks ten years since I dealt with that assclown.
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[LITTLE BUT FIERCE] I prefer to do the dishes as soon as they were dirtied (like right after dinner) but my ex was of a mind that they could be done at some unforseeable "later". So when "later" never came, and I got sick of taking care of it, I'd purposefully leave the dishes in the sink to see how long it would take for someone other than myself to do something about them. It would usually get to the point where I was disturbed by exactly HOW long it would take, and ended up just taking care of it myself anyway. I know for a fact I'm the only one that ever cleaned the bathroom (other than my mom).

It got to the point where I was so sick of working 8 hours and then coming home to do the cooking and cleaning, I'd give my mom cash out of my own pocket to take care of it for me, as often as I could afford.

I also paid her out of my own pocket to mow the lawn when my ex only got one weekend day off a week, so he didn't end up working his only restful day off doing yard work.

Clearly that was appreciated. :P






As an FYI, my mom does odd jobs and handywoman type things for a living, so no, my mommy does not have to clean up after me, it was a business transaction. LOL