We all possess some bad habits, but there’s one that almost 50 percent of men are guilty of, and it was enough for one woman to call it quits with her partner.
Sharing a living space isn’t always straightforward. Issues like how a dishwasher is loaded, a toilet seat being left up, or neglecting to take out the trash can make cohabitation challenging and educational for everyone involved.
You might assume that basic ground rules or expectations don’t need to be set, but one woman experienced firsthand that it’s crucial to address everything before moving in with someone, especially a romantic partner.
On Reddit’s r/texts thread, the woman posted screenshots of a text exchange with her ex-boyfriend.
After two years together, they moved in, but just three months later, they encountered some problems.
The caption reads: “The text conversation that foreshadowed our breakup.”
The reason for their split revolved around cleanliness.
The text messages feature the woman asking her partner to ‘throw the bedsheets in the wash’ for her.
This request isn’t difficult, but the boyfriend responds with: “Why?”
Clarifying her request, the woman explains the sheets are dirty and she washes them ‘once a week.’ She proposes alternating the task weekly to make it ‘a little more fair’.
However, her boyfriend isn’t on board, arguing it’s not ‘fair to [him]’ and claiming that washing the sheets weekly is unnecessary and just ‘creating more work’ for him.
So, how often does he wash his bedsheets? Brace yourselves.
The former boyfriend admits to washing his sheets ‘once every other month.’ Sometimes, not even that frequently.
The woman calls this lack of washing ‘disgusting,’ and when he suggests she should just wash the sheets if she wants ‘something done a certain way’ and she states she doesn’t ‘feel comfortable,’ he advises her to sleep on the ‘couch,’ labeling her as ‘controlling’.
In the caption, she mentions her ex later confessed he ‘only washed his bedsheets twice a year’.
She elaborated in the comments: “I only lasted another five months before I moved out and dumped him. […] Before you ask, no he wasn’t depressed. Just super lazy, gross, and entitled.”
And if that wasn’t bad enough, consider that he’s not alone.
A British survey published earlier this year found that 45 percent of single men wash their bed sheets approximately every four months, according to the New York Post.
Additionally, 12 percent acknowledged they only wash them when they remember – and who knows how often that is.