Secrets of a successful marriage

Sharing the housework doesn't do men any favours in the bedroom.

Researchers in the United States have found that couples who share household chores more equally have less sex. Writing in The Guardian, psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb admits that this chimes with her own experience.

Even though "being stuck with all the chores rarely tends to make wives desire their husbands", a partner who pitches in with the dishwashing "doesn't seem to have much of an effect on their libido, either. Many of my colleagues have observed the same thing."

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