Cleanliness is one of the many things you need to be compatible with your partner about. Most people fall somewhere in the middle: neither total clean freaks who need to deep clean the house once a day, nor slobs who haven’t washed a single dish in 10 years. Most disagreements about cleaning come down to little things. Do you come from a household where everyone washes the dishes they dirtied and nothing more, or a household that does all the dishes in one fell swoop, no matter who dirtied them? Do you come from a house where it’s acceptable to go number one in the shower? These are usually the kinds of discussions you have with a partner when you first move in together. While there’s room for some compromise, you can’t build your life around someone if you’re constantly arguing about chores because you don’t share the same cleanliness standards.