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How is it a red flag if someone is obsessively clean?
I grew up in squalor. Filth. Drugs and booze all around.
I am obsessed with cleanliness. I will NOT live the way i grew up. Red flag me
How is it a red flag if someone is obsessively clean?
I grew up in squalor. Filth. Drugs and booze all around.
I am obsessed with cleanliness. I will NOT live the way i grew up. Red flag me
I think it's the "obsessive" that would be a red flag, not the "clean."
Good for you for overcoming your past. That's hard to do.
I'm the untidy one, so in relationships I've always appreciated when the guy is a cleaner. I live alone, and if someone just showed up at my door right now I would not let them in--there are stacks of magazines and amazon boxes and shoes sitting around. People always say how much easier it is when you clean on the go rather than in a binge on the weekend, but I've never been able to make that habit stick.
I admit I'm a neat freak and like for things to be clean and tidy overall. I'm not extreme about it, so a random dish in the sink or a towel or socks that never made it in the laundry hamper, wouldn't send me over the edge.
However, if a person is content to live in utter filth and mess, because they can't be bothered to do even the basics of house chores, that *would* be a deal breaker for me.
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Originally Posted by BostonTankah
How is it a red flag if someone is obsessively clean?
I grew up in squalor. Filth. Drugs and booze all around.
I am obsessed with cleanliness. I will NOT live the way i grew up. Red flag me
I can understand why you'd say that, because to me, a person being very clean and tidy wouldn't be something that I'd consider to be a red flag, even if they appeared to be "obsessed" about it. Honestly, I'd rather be with a person like that than being with someone who was dirty and messy; although there are other people who wouldn't want to deal with someone who's very neat and clean because maybe they're not neat and clean themselves.
There could be a point at which the messiness would overcome any positive qualities that she had, yes.
ETA:
After reading through the thread a bit, there could also be a point at which the cleanliness of a person would overcome the positive qualities that they had as well.
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