If doing household chores is something that you’d rather your partner take care of then you really need to roll up your sleeves and start helping them. A recent study has revealed that dividing up housework fairly can actually improve your sex life.
Researchers found that although there has been an international decline in the frequency of sex in relationships, the only couples experiencing an increase are those who ‘adhere to a more egalitarian division of labour’. When only one person in the relationship does a major share of the housework (or all of it), there is a decrease in the frequency of their sex sessions. On the other hand, couples who shared housework equally had sex 6.8 times per month on average.
The study, which will be published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, has confirmed previous findings that stressed on the important role that housework plays for having a fulfilling conjugal relationship.
