According to a press release, researchers gathered data on things like grocery shopping, laundry, and household cleaning. But, unsurprisingly to anyone who’s ever had to wash dried oatmeal off a toddler spoon, it is dish duty that causes the most strife. Women who wash the majority of their household’s dishes reported less satisfaction in their relationships, more conflict, and worse sex lives than women who split dish duty equally with their partners. Strawberries may be an aphrodisiac, but they aren’t when you’re washing their half-chewed remains out of your toddler’s snack cup at 8:30 p.m. But that increase still leaves about 70 percent of couples with one pissed-off partner who’s sick of scrubbing all the forks. So the moral of this story? More boyfriends and husbands need to get on board. You wash, they’ll dry. Or, better yet, they wash and dry, and you go relax with a glass of wine. Either way, all these damn dishes are making us stressed out and sexually frustrated, and it’s about time someone else pick up a sponge — because science says so.
