I'm admittedly obsessive about cleanliness.... personally and in all things (clothes, car, house)....
While my wife and I weekly clean TOGETHER, she knows my obsession and pretty much just assists me. Of course, cleaning is pretty much constant with me. She puts something down - I get up and put it where it belongs. She well understood this obsession of mine before we got married. She's okay with it.... especially since I don't ask HER to clean (in fact, her weekly helping me is HER choice, and she knows to HELP me rather than take a primary role). The cars get washed weekly - inside and out; waxed and polished quarterly. I wash my own clothes, too. My wife loves to cook - and I leave her entirely to that, but I want to clean up afterword. She lets me. It works. I clean the grout in our tile floor on my knees with toothpaste and a toothbrush... it's clean.
We all have our little obsessions.... that's mine.
- Mr. Clean