What is the minimum one should expect from a spouse?

Not pissing on the toilet seat

livindadream wrote:

What do you all think is the minimum amount of effort or participation needed to keep a relationship working? Career( money), cooking, cleaning, sex /flirting, or any other category. Should there be a standard to hold your spouse to?

As a minimum a spouse should not be thinking in terms of minimizing the effort of maintaining the relationship.

The wife should plant tulips at least once a week.

There is an excellent short educational video addressing this topic. Google “magic coffee table” and enjoy. Likely the best minute and a half you will spend this week!

minimum = maximum wrote:

Not pissing on the toilet seat

Or under for the ladies. Women expect men to raise the seat and put it back down while forgetting that splashback on the underside is right where you typically grab the lid.

That's why one should always leave the toilet seat up.

On your hand or rear wrote:

minimum = maximum wrote:

Not pissing on the toilet seat

Or under for the ladies. Women expect men to raise the seat and put it back down while forgetting that splashback on the underside is right where you typically grab the lid.

Lift it with your foot you dolt

Dinner on the table and she always wears heels

livindadream wrote:

What do you all think is the minimum amount of effort or participation needed to keep a relationship working? Career( money), cooking, cleaning, sex /flirting, or any other category. Should there be a standard to hold your spouse to?

I think there is a minimum amount of time you know each other before thinking about marriage. Way too many marriages don't work because they didn't really know each other. Then afterwards it;s.......who is this?

I think ya need to have a relationship for at least a year.

Once you do get married if you have.....standards......you will have problems.

PSA announcer wrote:

There is an excellent short educational video addressing this topic. Google “magic coffee table” and enjoy. Likely the best minute and a half you will spend this week!

Australian couples are funny.

Aussie men are pretty dumb.

Your socks should ALL still be available as pairs after they have been washed...

mercy flush?

Problem solver wrote:

On your hand or rear wrote:

Or under for the ladies. Women expect men to raise the seat and put it back down while forgetting that splashback on the underside is right where you typically grab the lid.

Lift it with your foot you dolt

I have big feet and the gap is too narrow.

Talk to each other every day, do occasional favors just because.

RealCici wrote:

Talk to each other every day, do occasional favors just because.

Remind her every day she's lucky cuz you could have done better.

Slap in the face for snoring

Invitation to sleep on the couch after every disagreement

RealCici wrote:

Talk to each other every day, do occasional favors just because.

Used to quite enjoy it when my toxic ex- gave me the Silent Treatment. Two days of not listening to her moan was pure bliss.

However there were other minimum standards I should have been enforcing like her not being a rageaholic with personality disorder. Unfortunately I didn't know better then.