People have been left divided after a man asked his partner to wash her sheets every time he visits, as he doesn't think her bedding is clean enough otherwise.
The controversial request has caused rows for the couple, both in their late 20s. The girlfriend even took to Reddit to complain about her partner's behaviour following a particularly nasty argument.
Sharing her upset, she explained how the bedding problem is part of a larger issue - as her boyfriend struggles with the smell of her home.
"My bf has quirks - one of them has to do with his sense of smell. I have two dogs and he says my house has an indescribable odor," his girlfriend wrote.
She added that he refuses to get in bed 'if one of the dogs has laid down on it so much as once', and he likes to open every window. "I live with two other people, have people over frequently, and he is the only person to have ever complained. I've asked others for their honest opinion, and it seems he's just a super smeller."
Unfortunately, it sounds like his partner has lost her patience. "Well this Pepé Le Pew insists on me cleaning the bed before he hangs out on weekends, once a week at least," she wrote. "I've never washed sheets so much in my life. If he doesn't think they're clean enough, he washes them again once he's come over."
To make matters worse, her dryer broke - due to overuse, according to the post's author. This then led to another problem during her boyfriend's most recent visit.
"This weekend I had enough, I had so many sheets, blankets, top blankets thrown in the drier for the entire day while trying to work and none of them were dry by the time he came by. We slept only with a bottom sheet and I was freezing. In the morning, all the wet blankets left in the dryer had such a foul odor that even I - the meager common smeller - couldn't take it."
Fed up, she told her partner he needs to bring his own covers in the future, but he did not take the news well.
"He sarcastically told me it must have been such 'an imposition' to make him feel at home and if I feel that way he'll just stop coming over as often. Which I'm all for, honestly," she claimed. However, since the argument she's been left unsure if she acted unreasonably.
"After I've had time to cool off I'm wondering if I'm being mean and should have approached this a different way, then just abruptly drawing a line, since I didn't complain much before," her post explained. She then asked if she was in the wrong but received a mixed response.
One commenter replied: "I won't call you an a****e because that's just normal while having dogs, but I don't blame your boyfriend at all. "I don't let my dog on my bed because it reeks of dog after. So does the couch. Dogs smell. They smell to me, and I own a smelly German shepherd.
"He's not overreacting. You're just desensitized to the smell, and your other guests are too polite to complain. Because I'm telling you, your house smells of dog 100%"
Someone else took a neutral position but added: "Your lifestyles are incompatible. You attempted a compromise (he brings his own sheets) which he refuses to even try, hence my judgement. (If he was just unhappy with the smell I would have judged no a****s here). Been dating for under a year, no children.....honestly just move on."
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