The key is, it has to be GENUINE apathy, which you can't feign. I really DON'T care. Occasionally for specific reasons it will get intensely frustrating...and in those times I just go straight back to my own part of the house and close myself in and forget about it.
I'd definitely go on food strike as you said above. They're making your life HARDER...why should you go on making theirs EASIER until they give you a break? Let them eat cereal and pretzels for a week and maybe they'll see some point in wiping up the juice they spill. Cut off anything that is done for them alone, maybe. You can't tolerate mess, so when you clean it's partly for you...but you get nothing out of making THEM food. Let them wash their own laundry, etc, you just do your own. Eventually they'll run out of underwear. Anything you don't HAVE to do (to stay sane and happy yourself) just let it go until they agree to pull their own weight. It's only showing them how they're making your life difficult so they can understand just how wearying and depressing and LIFE SUCKING it all is, to have to struggle over every puny thing, such as being able to find things in the fridge, or brush your teeth without ruining your shirt because SOMEONE didn't wipe up the bleach they slopped all over the place.
Okay, that may not have happened to YOU, but I think you probably understand perfectly well. I just think they should be made to appreciate just how much harder they'd have to work, if not for you, and that you're not a servant.
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Date: 2009-01-28 04:15 pm (UTC)I'd definitely go on food strike as you said above. They're making your life HARDER...why should you go on making theirs EASIER until they give you a break? Let them eat cereal and pretzels for a week and maybe they'll see some point in wiping up the juice they spill. Cut off anything that is done for them alone, maybe. You can't tolerate mess, so when you clean it's partly for you...but you get nothing out of making THEM food. Let them wash their own laundry, etc, you just do your own. Eventually they'll run out of underwear. Anything you don't HAVE to do (to stay sane and happy yourself) just let it go until they agree to pull their own weight. It's only showing them how they're making your life difficult so they can understand just how wearying and depressing and LIFE SUCKING it all is, to have to struggle over every puny thing, such as being able to find things in the fridge, or brush your teeth without ruining your shirt because SOMEONE didn't wipe up the bleach they slopped all over the place.
Okay, that may not have happened to YOU, but I think you probably understand perfectly well. I just think they should be made to appreciate just how much harder they'd have to work, if not for you, and that you're not a servant.