Jen Horsey doesn't consider herself a neat freak, but she prefers when things stay tidy. “When I get home from a trip, I unpack right away,” says Horsey, a marketing professional. Whereas I am writing this on a coffee table littered with old magazines, bottles of nail polish and a constellation of pistachio shells. “(Cleanliness and) the division of household labour is absolutely an issue in a relationship,” he says. The overdoer takes on the lion’s share of household chores out of love, habit or necessity and the labour imbalance eventually breeds resentment.

Source: thestar August 23, 2016 08:26 UTC