Yup….it was very wrong of him to call her Crazy. It might have been better if he had been supportive and caring and suggested that together they went to see a therapist that might help calm things down for them all.

Awww.. she obviously needs a little help. I’m scared to think that I used to be like this. She can’t help it.. she needs to see a doctor about her OCD.

Poor Robby caught up in his mum’s over the top obsessions. The whole family sound like they need counselling. I don’t blame dad for trying to protect his child.

Sounds like she needs some psychological help.

Sounds like she need a help.

Please get help. Something else is going on and the cleaning is a symptom/expression of that.

I think she needs professional help. It’s probably something she knows even if she doesn’t acknowledge it.

OCD is definitely a curse at times. I don’t think he went too far but in her eyes, he may just as well have hit her. She does need help when it’s affecting her little boy and she won’t ever get to thoroughly enjoy her son growing up if she keeps going like this. I wish her calmness and hope that she gets help so she can start enjoying her son’s growth from this time forward.

This sounds like a hard battle – OCD has gotten extreme and it seems the dad has had enough.

I’m not sure if he went to far, maybe this is something that she needed to hear as she might not have realised what affect it was having on her family

If she legitimately has ocd, maybe she needs to talk to a professional about it.

Send her round to my place if she needs to work off some excess house cleaning ????

I understand he feels he went too far but maybe she needed to hear that. I’ve been similar to the wife before not to that same degree but one day when my son started freaking out he dropped some crumbs on the carpet and was scared I’d yell I knew I needed to change. Hopefully they can talk to together and the wife works through the issues with help she has that are causing her to clean so much.

Hopefully while your wife has been incommunicado in her room and not cleaning, she has also been thinking. She may need help, and wasn’t aware of it before this. I do hope you will all be able to sort this out. No child should be in fear of his parents and neither parent should feel they are constantly on egg-shells and petrified they may break. Wishing you all the best of luck for a new easier relationship in the future.

Like you’ve called your wife f*****g crazy for doing what every mother in the world does, tell there kid off for not listening to her. I think the poor woman needs to tell you she’s not putting up with your bs fancy taking the kid out for icecream. Then to pick fault with her cause she has a clean house like are you serious. No woman needs to see a councilor for telling her kid off for not listening and keeping a clean house. I don’t think you need to interfere in a mother telling off her child. Like he was in the wrong so got told off it is not a accident to disobey the mother and not drink the milk in the kitchen like she told him too.

I think dads out of line interfering then berating his wife. Plus then he’s undermining her being in charge and handling her son how she wants too. Her house her rules dad should not interfere. She’s probably told the kid over 100 times to sit at the table, after spending all day cleaning it’d drive anyone mad a kid that doesn’t just do as there told when they’ve been told over and over to eat and drink at the table. No one likes food or drinks spilt on carpet. Especially if they have animals that might smell the food and destroy the carpet. The issue might be the frustration at the kid not listening to mum. As for showers straight after playing kids get filthy and sweaty its good to get them all cleaned up straight away so they feel comfortable and shower is done they are clean for dinner. Like everytime my daughter comes back from childcare it’s straight in the shower. To then take the son away and talk to him the dad has reinforced the kid can do what he likes and doesn’t have to listen to his mum. Dad will inferere take charge. I’d rip you a new one if you where my husband. You should tell your kid to listen to his mother.

Completely justified- the mum needs to wake up and realise that Robby is going to end up hating her. She is not building a relationship with him at all because he’s too scared of her. It’s not right.

I don’t think he went overboard, it’s something she needed to hear!
Now he needs to offer to accompany her to a GP for a referral to a psych & some marriage counseling. She needs to hear how her unhealthy obsessions are impacting her family.

Gosh, that is a little obsessive, I hope if there is an underlying reason they can work it out.

Ooh, this is a bit extreme. I can understand the angst by the hubby and his son. Maybe there’s a reason for the OCD like cleaning behaviour? Covid? Something else that needs to be addressed? But no-one can live like that.