I have horrible hygiene and I've come to defend myself!(more like make excuses.) I am at home a lot. I work at home and my hobbies are done in my house. When stuck in the house most of every day it really screws up your routine. They say watching TV in bed can screw up your sleeping because it's teaching your brain that you should be experiencing something when laying in bed instead of turning itself off. I think that's kind of similar to spending most of your day in your home. It was very easy for me to have good hygiene when I stayed away from home most of the day. When you come home, you feel dirty. You have all the smells of the outside world lingering and having a shower is relaxing. When you're in your house all day there's multiple things working against you. Having so many things to do in the house makes you lose track of time and since you can't smell your own BO as well as others you can sometimes forget because there are no foreign smells to remind you. Secondly, It's depressing not leaving your house for days at a time which causes even more problems with hygiene.
I do try to brush my teeth daily though. You may be able to shower away a weeks worth of dirt and BO but you can't go a week between brushings and expect it to go unnoticed.
I would just tell your boyfriend straight out that his hygiene is unacceptable. It's not like he doesn't know. He's doing it because he's been able to get away with it.
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