Relationships can be rough, right? Turn out the key to a lasting love comes down to the kitchen.
The study finds “Women who wash the vast majority of the dishes themselves report more relationship conflict, less relationship satisfaction, and even worse sex, than women with partners who help. Women are happier about sharing dishwashing duties than they are about sharing any other household task.”
Doing Dishes Is the Worst
This is now an empirically proven fact. Dishwashing causes more relationship distress than any other household task. What is it about dishes? Dan Carlson, an assistant professor of family and consumer studies at the University of Utah, and the lead author of the study, offers one possible reason: "Doing dishes is gross.
