Chores advice?

[faerykat]

For those of you, in particular (not that anyone else is excluded from responding!), who have lived with a significant other:

How do you get someone to do a chore when nothing is working?  On certain chores, Isaiah and I take turns.  Washing dishes is one of them.  We both hate doing dishes and can be bad about letting them pile up, so eventually,

Comments

[makoelf]

hmmm... i've read everyone's comments and i'd say i have to agree with northofeden's response the most. finding 'methods' to get him to do what you want will never work. you simply have to be like, "look. this pisses me the fuck off because [insert reasoning here]. this makes me think [insert whatever] about [insert whatever]," or "i thought we had agreed that you would take care of it and, right now, you're letting me down and it really hurts because [insert reasoning here]," is another good way to go about it, i think.

either way, good luck with the stinky dishes.