Hygiene Revisited

The note from Should I Stay hit a few readers right in the teeth.  Here are a few responses.

Dear Suze Q., Bad hygiene is the worst turn-off imaginable.  I married a man years ago with sour breath because he was terrific in other ways, but I found myself tense when he wanted a brief kiss, or hug, or just to talk too close.  I finally told him and he was surprised, and of course, embarrassed.  A few quick google searches solved his problem, that was to brush his tongue and roof of his mouth, not just teeth!  A simple solution to a sticky problem.            -Breathless in Balboa.

Dear Suze,  My partner takes a shower in the morning to wake up and at night before bed.  I'm pleased that he's so clean but he expects fresh towels both times.  I felt like his personal maid until I told him he needed to do his own laundry and gave him a separate clothes basket.  We rearranged some household chores and now he does all his own wash.  Sometimes I slip in a pair of my undies just to make him laugh.  -JK