I have been married to my wife for 9 years, together for 10, and friends for 16. She has finally broken down and admitted that she likes the fact that I am obsessively organized. For years she always said she was irritated by me constantly organizing everything and making sure stuff was in its spot. She would get mad because I would follow behind her cleaning up her messes.
My wife is not a dirty person or anything like that, she just isn’t very organized. Her family is very busy and like things very busy, even decorations in their homes are very busy and my wife would do our house like that and it drove me crazy. I noticed a while ago that she was getting better about putting stuff back where it goes and reducing clutter.
I asked her about it and she said that she had developed an appreciation for my organization skills and minimalist philosophy. She still leaves stuff out and hates when I follow her around picking up after her but she is getting better about it. She even started taking down any extra decorations we have and just keeping it basic.
This just goes to show that persistence pays off and people can change. Now if I could only get her to go to bed without having a fan set on jet engine, I like to sleep without any noise and she likes a loud fan. Maybe another 9 years and she will see the benefits of silence……. or not.
