15 TIPS TO MARRIAGE AND CHORES

1. You need to know a husband doing housework is a turn-on for women.

2. You need to know who’s goingto push the vacuum cleaner and who’s going to take out the garbage. You better believe the issue will come up.

3. You need to know whoever works athome is expected to keep the place clean. Even if they are the primary breadwinner.

4. You need to know that even when awife goes to work and her husband tends the house, she still does most of the housework. It’s not a plot. It’s reality.


5. You need to know that asuccessful division of housework depends on what your friends are doing.
Husbands will copy other husbands.

6. You need to know a woman can seedirt two or three days before a man does.

7. You need to know that for some weirdreason, women don’t equate washing the car or changing light bulbs with folding the laundry or scrubbing the toilets.

8. You need to know research indicates59% of men lose their hearing when a woman asks them to clean the house.

9. You need to know the more you tellhim he didn’t do housework right the more he’ll let you do it by yourself.

10. You need to know there’s no suchthing as men’s chores and women’s chores. That kind of thinking puts
men on the couch for the night.

11. You need to know there’s a differencebetween obsession and housework. If you’re obsessed with keeping everything spotless, don’t expect him to share your enthusiasm forWindexing.

12. You need to know a man’s inclinationis to put things off, while a woman’s is to strike before the sun’s up. That’s why she’s vacuuming while he’s groggily looking for the coffeemaker.

13. You need to know thatwhen he actually does clean the house, he wants to be praised like he's coming home from battle.

14. You need to know if someonefeels like they’re doing all the work in a marriage, the marriage is in trouble.

15. You need to know a dishwasherisn’t a birthday gift. It’s an appliance.