WAIT! Please don't let him make you backslide too! You saw, after your daughter's visit, that he can change. He is just doing these things to provoke you.
First, and critical - take the car keys - now - before he hurts himself, you or some innocent bystander.
Tell him he has to call Uber, a taxi or his daughter for rides to doctor appointments you deem unnecessary. Contact the doctors yourself, by phone or message, and tell them you are doing this and why.
On the more annoying but less critical matter, show him 2 can play that game. EVERY time he puts "stuff" on the floor or in the refrig/freezer that belongs in the trash, openly remove it and carry it out. Then go for a walk or a drive (without your phone) while he has his tantrum!
It might seem juvenile to do this, but your alternatives are to continue to suffer in silence, or to push back. You're tough , so push back.
Here's a big Hug for you today,
Sue🫂
PS To any other member who thinks I am off-base here, please read this couple's history - yes he has some issues, but he won't fix them (take meds as ordered, etc) and his demands and behaviors are over-the-top.
Sue - I took your advice and refused to go. Told him to call his daughter but, as usual, she was too busy aka nothing in it for her. So he cancelled the apt. and rescheduled it.
I told him to make arrangements to get there because I would use the time he was gone to clean the house so he wouldn't smell anything.
I don't know why, but I feel this is getting to me quicker than it did before.
I want to tell you all his "reason" for refusing to put the empty milk jugs in the outside garbage can.... ready? It is because they fill the can up! Now, when we take the garbage out on Sunday nite and put the jugs in the can there is no problem. I think, but am not certain, that in his mind the jugs have to go on top of the kitchen garbage bags in the outside can. He never use to "think" like this.
He never use to be like that about the milk jugs or the chicken bones. Only the last few years did that stuff start.