From cooking schedules to cleaning strikes: 14 couples reveal exactly how they split their domestic load

The reality of how couples split the domestic labour

Credit: Harry Pedersen

Relationships


From cooking schedules to cleaning strikes: 14 couples reveal exactly how they split their domestic load

29 min read

Whether it’s cooking, cleaning or buying family Christmas gifts, have you ever wondered what the ‘right’ way to split domestic chores with a partner is? Here, 28 people reveal with radical honesty (in private, and away from their partner) exactly how much of their domestic load they pick up. From years-long resentments to ingenious cooking arrangements, this is what they told us…


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