We live in an apartment so I can't leave it or it'll stink up the place. We both work the same hours but I do all the housework, at least he can take out the trash, right?
2006-07-23 09:22:51 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
put a six-pack out on the curb.
2006-07-23 09:25:55 · answer #1 · answered by dr schmitty 7 · 9⤊ 2⤋
I agree!!!
First I would really try talking to him. Say while you are at dinner or out eating, just kinda say "you know babe, It would really mean a lot to me if you would take out the trash when I ask you, it causes the house to smell if it's not taken out right away, and is awfully embarrassing when guest come over, plus it make me sick. I'd really like you to work on this one thing for me" See how that goes. You are going to have to ask him to do it most of the time to begin with, then maybe after 10 years he might do 50% of it on his own w/o you having to ask.
If that doesn't work, I'd get a little more mad at the situation. "Babe, I've asked you many of times if you could take the trash out...I wash the dishes, clean the bathrooms, etc....and all I'm asking for is a little help with the trash".
If that doesn't work, one day when you are out of town for the night, put the trash in the bedroom and see how he likes the smell.
Hope this helps somewhat.
2006-07-23 16:31:36 · answer #2 · answered by Remington B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask him which he would rather do that particular day:
Take out the trash or cook dinner?
Take out the trash or do the laundry?
Take out the trash or go the the grocery?
Giving him an either/or option forces him to make a choice. Now, his option is take out the trash or watch TV. Don't give him that option.
Put it right in the middle of the front door on the outside before you go to bed. When he leaves to go to work and trips over it, he'll get the message. Good luck.
2006-07-23 16:30:04 · answer #3 · answered by stseukn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Years ago my husband did the same thing. What I did was went on housework and cooking strike. It lasted 2 days. Trash was never a problem again. Good luck.
2006-07-23 16:27:11 · answer #4 · answered by Diana 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
women are the ones in control( or so says my mother) she says a woman can make any man do anything if she just learns how and each man is diffrent. my wife is learnning wayyyyyyyyyy to many tricks of my mothers. if you nag you know the results and if you beg you know he then has way to much power and you know the results but you can angle for somthing he wants if he likes golfing angle if you take out the trash this week i wont say a thing about your spending money on golfing saturday or what ever it is he does. but taking out the trash should predate the ocation in which you wont complain or do somthing for him that he notices and likes. he may take for granted the house work but you know what will happen if you dont do it ( dirty house) but most men like the bedroom activitie and men love it when women cook for them i would condition dinner and buy alot of microwave dinners till he concedes your power lol good luck
2006-07-23 16:34:47 · answer #5 · answered by joe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Explain to him that women are not the only people who are allowed to do housework. Running a household means a husband and wife need to cooperate and work needs to be divided 50/50.
2006-07-23 16:27:09 · answer #6 · answered by Janiffer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell him you are going to follow in his footsteps. From now there will be no more housecleaning, cooking, doing laundry, etc. You will ignore doing any of that just like he ignores taking out the trash. Tell him you don't have a problem with this, does he?
2006-07-23 17:02:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes he can help you around the house! Give him a choice, tell him he can either wash the dishes or take out the trash. If that fails, you can always do the "no help me, no help you" trick that works for most wives. Good Luck
2006-07-23 16:25:54 · answer #8 · answered by marks3kids 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely right! Leave the trash can in the middle of the doorway when you leave (you leave first, ok?) and if he doesn't do it without being asked, you put it on his side of the bed. Sooner or later he will get the idea.
2006-07-23 17:07:27 · answer #9 · answered by Sassy OLD Broad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read him the poem, Sara Synthia Sylvia Stout would not take the Garbage Out by Shel Silverstien.
2006-07-23 16:31:02 · answer #10 · answered by stink 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right he should at least take out the trash.I mean after all you do all the other stuff.you do the cooking and the cleaning.I mean come on its not that hard for him to do one thing like take you the trash.
2006-07-23 16:38:32 · answer #11 · answered by Angel sent from heaven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋