i feel awful

I just need to vent - no advice or fixing please

my boyfriend was sweeping the floor (white tile in the basement) but he misses spots or doesn’t sweep/vacuum enough. it’s not dirty and i was trying to just ignore it but once i saw him with the mop bucket it got harder. and then i heard him drag the bucket across the floor and i heard all the pieces of dirt against the bottom of the bucket and it got even harder to ignore. i didn’t say anything this entire time but i was visibly uncomfortable and cringing into myself. he didn’t even sweep the bathroom first so that it could be mopped first. (his room is the basement, it’s finished but we constantly use the sliding door & he has multiple reptile tanks so there is dirt that always accumulates, along with the dog’s hair that ends up down here from the laundry, and just general dust.) i’m just painfully uncomfortable and sick to my stomach also because he always wants to start with the floor when literally nothing else is cleaned yet (tables, vacuum the rug, make the bed, all the other miscellaneous shit)…i know my place in this, coming from my OCD, but at the same time i’m like how do you not get it. and i feel terrible about it

Posted Jan 10, 2024, 2:01 PM UTC

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