My husband is obsessed with cleaning
I am married to mr clean. I know it sounds like a good thing but it’s really, really not.
His problem is that he loves to clean and he cannot sit still or relax. We live in a very tiny house, it’s a ranch, one floor, 2 bedrooms, small kitchen, but this guy is always finding something to clean. He’ll come home and start vacuuming the floors that were cleaned the day before, dusting furniture that’s already been dusted. Then the weekends are a nightmare. Both Saturday and Sunday we deep clean. He wakes up in a panic like “omg we have so much to do” Then on the rare occasion the house is finally to his standards, he finds random shit to do, like reorganize the Tupperware cabinet, or go thru our file cabinet. The problem is not so much the house is dirty, because it’s not, it’s really that he just can’t ever chill out. We don’t ever spend the weekends relaxing, there’s always something to do. And god forbid I chill out, because then he goes on a tangent about how can i relax when there’s SOOOO much to do ( I’m supposed to be scrubbing the shower as I type this)
The problem is we have 2 young kids. 18m and 5m. He doesn’t do anything with them because he’s “too busy”. Last summer, the only thing we did with our son was we went to the petting zoo. Ever other beautiful summer day was spent doing yard work/ house work. Now my 18m old is being weird like his dad. Most of his playing is “cleaning”. He wipes down furniture with his hands, and he takes wet wipes and “cleans” the windows. Seriously what do I do about this?? I feel like he needs serious help
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