#germophobic

18x Dirtier Than a Toilet? My New Favorite Gadget: PhoneSoap

Being slightly germophobic AND a teacher just doesn’t bode well at times. Imagine you’re standing in the front of the room, and you look out at your students. You see that one student digging heartily into his nose because he thinks no one is looking. Later, that period, he walks over to your desk and picks up your stapler. Yes, that same stapler that you have to use for your papers.

Or picture…

Shrink *** (2009, Kevin Spacey, Robin Williams, Saffron Burrows, Jack Huston, Dallas Roberts, Pell James, Robert Loggia, Jesse Plemons) – Classic Movie Review 3840

A fired-up Kevin Spacey relishes a perfect part as Dr Henry Carter, a high-profile Los Angeles celebrity psychiatrist, who, battling to cope with his wife’s suicide, is falling apart. In his despair, he turns to pot-smoking and lets himself go, while finding he is now desperately struggling to counsel his clients.

These include a faded movie star (Robin Williams) who is sex and booze addicted,…

Q. Dishes Disagreement: When we got married, my wife—a wonderful person whom I love deeply—and I agreed on a household division of chores that has worked pretty well until recently. One of my tasks is to wash the dishes, and she’ll gather things in the sink when they’re dirty. It turns out, however, that she’s convinced that anything that our 1-year-old son touches is consequently filthy. He loves exploring the cabinets, so I frequently walk in to discover basically every pot we own piled in the sink. After an argument about whether this was necessary, I installed child locks on the cabinets, but that’s only made things worse, as she now assumes that any cabinet she finds open (for example because she forgot to close it while cooking) has had its contents rifled through by dirty fingers. Rather than wash every pot we own almost every day, I started simply waiting until she was somewhere else and then returning the unused items to the cabinet. When my wife realized what I was doing, however, she started pouring bacon grease on everything so that there could be no disagreement about whether it needed to be washed. I think that this is incredibly obnoxious; she insists that she’s just making sure that I do my job; both of us are really annoyed. How do we de-escalate?

Dear Dad,

Okay, your wife is having an issue that some women have when they have kids.  Some women become clean freaks, and some become slovenly messes, because they kind of short circuit a bit?  Either things are never clean enough, or they never will be clean enough.  It’s kind of like, nesting gone amok, but it’s really symptomatic of a deeper psychological issue.

In other words, get your wife to the doctor before you come home to find the baby in a plastic bubble.  

And toss out or hide the bacon grease.  Fuck that shit she’s doing.  Tell her if she does that shit again, you’re going to start dumping piles of dirt on the carpet she vacuums for every bacon greased pan you find.  Let her know that it’s just that level of frustrating.

Mrs. Bitch suffers from an irrational fear herself, she does not punish her husband with her fear - you need to help your wife see you as her ally in her mental issues, not her adversary.  It is very dangerous to let a fear make you become combative with your loved ones, it steals your support base.  

Time for a psych-doc visit, post haste.

After the birth of our daughter, there were a number of hang-ups that my husband & I had to let go of. Things such as crumbs on the floor & never having an empty laundry basket were a difficult reality. One of the hardest things for me was getting over my slight germophobia. With a poop covered baby, pacifiers on the floor & a wardrobe riddled with spit up & drool, I had to learn to control my…