| davidt
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 Posted - 08/26/2008 : 10:51:20
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How are you doing presently Mae?
Having not noticed you around for awhile, I got to thinking re looking you up!
I hope you don't mind, David
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| Claire07
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Posted - 09/27/2008 : 21:38:03
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I can understand your husband's interest in having his home organized and having a sense of ''order'' in the house. I also like to have my belongings exactly the way I left them. I have my clothes perfectly organized in my cupboards and drawers. I have a 6 year old daughter who has a very tidy bedroom. All her shoes are neatly packed in organization in her cupboard and her clothes and drawers are also neatly organized. I have never asked her to clean her room.... she is neat and tidy, and well-organized. also never have dirty dishes in my kitchen sink , and if after making supper/lunch in the kitchen, I immediately clean after myself and leave little work for others to do. I find a balance in family life most important. We eat at the kitchen table as a family and always together. Family values are crucial and togetherness most important.
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Originally posted by mae
My Husband is a great obsessor! He has to have everything perfect. Even the forks have to be lined up in a certain way. He will put things in a certain place and then move it an inch and do this with just about everything in the kitchen. I watch him and almost have to laugh at how extreme he gets with it. His cloths have to be a certain way in his drawers and all shoes have to be put a certain way on the floor. He has his system down to a T. If someone moves his pen in the bill drwaer he will almost have a seizure and he cleans out drawers and puts things back the way he wants it to look even it is only one thing that needs changed he will clean out the whole drawer to change the one thing. If I don't have the house looking a certain way when he gets home from work he gets all out of sorts and if he gets home before me he is usually another person. The kids are just kids and kinda make fun of his problem or run away when they see him coming home. I'm laughing a I write this because he is so obsessed with how things have to look all the time. I think if I would'nt laugh I would probably go nuts with him in the house.
Mae
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| lynn2150
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Posted - 09/28/2008 : 03:34:10
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Oh, I have to post on this topic !
My Mom is OCD about house work.
Growing up, I thought NEVER, will i obsess, over dust bunnies, nor spend my life being tied to my home.
Well, NOW I wish I had a pill to MAKE me OCD about housework ! lol
I admire people that are neat and tidy.
I am the polar opposite.
I don't relly like clutter, or dirt, I just turn a blind eye to it.
But boy ! Is it ever embarrassing if company visits.
I feel So uneasy.
So, touch wood, my latest endeavor is, cleaning.
PS- as a pre teen, I had to have my room spotless.
and, I used to be a checker, Locks, stove, etc.
Healthy OCD,
I enjoyed your post Mae, about your hubby.
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| guineapurple
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Posted - 09/29/2008 : 01:46:03
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Hi.
I too have obsessive 'problems'. But recently I saw my pdoc and he asked me how much of my day is spent trying to deal with that. Like, how often do I do oc things.
Well. I said I didn't know, b/c I don't. I do it so much that I don't bother drawing a line between what is 'normal' and what is "OC".
As for the hand washing. It can get bad.
I'm so intent on frequent hand washing and using those santitizer gels that my hands crack and bleed or rash up. Silly me, I can never figure out why they are rashing so I usually make it worse before I can make it better.
If I THINK my hands are dirty, I change my head (unwillingly) to act like they are no longer a part of me, but some soiled sponges dangling off my body. Almost like I'm afraid of them.
I would recommend getting help before a serious problem takes over.
Right now I'm managable... but only because I've learned my way of coping.... I think everyone has a different way so you have to find yours.
goodluck
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