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Helpful husband??

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Quizzer Mon 17-Apr-23 17:15:44

I have posted about this before but I just need to have a rant.
Husband constantly ‘helps’ with the laundry, unasked and unwanted.
In the past he has put away damp clothes, stacked ironing in the aired to bake the creases in and ruined sweaters and t-shirts by stretching them on the line.

This morning, while I was dressing, he hung the overnight wash on the line. Everything was hung so that it would be a much creased as possible. He then was annoyed that I rehung most of it. When it was dry is h he put all the socks and pants in the basket on the muddy grass and then placed the basket on the clean sheets in the airer. When I pointed that out and he went off in a huff. He then took a second basket (equally muddy) and put it on our bed to sort out the contents. I admit I lost my cool shouted and dumped the basket on the floor.

He just won’t leave the laundry alone!!! It is one thing that I can still do myself. He may be trying to help but always causes extra work. If I mention it he gets annoyed and we don’t speak for days.

Rant over.

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jocork Sun 23-Apr-23 13:37:11

When my children were still quite young my H complained I hadn't washed his shirts so I showed him how the washing machine worked. He then did some of the washing regularly. It seems that training has not remained in his skill set. He is now my ex H and I think his new partner must do all the laundry. When my daughter went to stay she asked to use the washing machine. He told her he didn't know how it worked! Needless to say she worked that out for herself.

Now she lives with me she does most of the laundry but still doesn't hang it well so I try and interfere with hanging my things up so they end up less creased especially now we have stopped using the tumble dryer which gets rid of creases with lots of things! I obviously failed to train her to give things a good shake and stretch before hanging and put some things on hangers to dry.

My ex now does quite a lot of the cooking which I never encouraged as I couldn't stand the mess he made in the kitchen, and with him working and me mostly at home it made practical sense for me to cook. He's semi retired now and his new partner still works so she must have more patience than me leaving him to wreck the kitchen!

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