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Couples argue for 40 mins a day over household chores

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Arguing about who does the washing up takes up 264 mins a week and 10 days a year, a survey has claimed

Couple's spend 40 mins a day arguing over domestic chores - that's 10 full days a year!

The average couple spend 40 minutes a day (the equivalent of 264 mins a week) feuding over household chores, a survey by eSure have discovered.

With 13% of the 1,000 couples who took part admitting falling out on a daily basis over simple tasks like the washing up, a further 20% spent one day refusing to speak to their other half after seeing red.

The domestic rows are usually caused by a partner's irritation of bad habits, such as clothes being strewn across the house (35% rated this as their biggest bugbear), and 28% hated their partners putting off DIY home improvements. Interestingly, only 10% got cross with the toilet seat not being put down and strangely, not admitting to unidentified stains on furniture fared high!

Mike Pickard, eSure's head of risk and underwriting, said: 'Forgetting to take the rubbish out or making a shoddy DIY attempt may not seem like serious crimes but, as the research shows, domestic chores and household responsibilities can cause arguments in even the most stable of relationships."

Do you and your partner argue over household chores? Let us know below...

Kyrsty Hazell By Kyrsty Hazell
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Ha this made me laugh-it's about 4 mins in this house-I do , he doesn't end of discussion!!!!! I could have done 2 jobs in that 40 mins of wasting my breath!!!!!
theoldwomanwholivesinashoe

After ten years the arguments stop,you just get on and do it.You realise he is but a little boy,only bigger....plus other obvious differences.Spirit broken,you find yourself putting his slippers by the door and tea on the table as he's in the door,children all bathed and jammied and ready for bed....yeah right.

Other issues,you'll never change his bad habits.A man who doesn't have bad habits is not a man,and have the slight advantage of making mine look not quite so bad.

We don't really argue.We might disagree,at most  there's a brief "explosion".He goes for a fag,promptly forgetting all,I sulk till I realise it's only me I'm p***ing off.Everythings hunkydory again.

DIY's my job,closest I get to help is he'll get BIL to do it.I waited 6 months for a stairgate,then did it myself.Rubbish is his job,he forgets he does two lots the next week and it stinks,his problem.Hoovering's his job,but we sometimes swap and he does baths.

Seems the less I nag the more he helps.He likes it clean and tidy,I've got him well trained after all this time.Just don't tell him to do it

x.Laura.x

we are both waaay to stubborn so andrew knows if hes asked to do something i WONT do it for him, and its the same the other way round.

Although now when we get ready to go anywhere i just do it all, because

HE CANT MATCH HATS GLOVES AND SCARVES AND I MAY KILL HIM IF HE GETS IT WRONG AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *and breath*

oh and he doesnt pack snacks/milk spare clothes, the comforters and spare dummys, he just takes nappy/wipes/beaker!!!

ah to be a man

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