Housework tasks marriage solutions: Assigning a person a job in its entirety really works.

I’ve learned many things during the past three-years-and-change of parenthood. Every time a friend passes one of these articles along to me, or another friend complains about how she’s up at 11 p.m. doing the dishes alone because that’s the one time of day she’s able to get that done, I can usually do little more than say “Oh no,” and stealthily change the subject. I’m not doing calendar math to make sure our kid has her sheet and blanket clean for school or enough sweatshirts when she inexplicably goes through three one Saturday. This doesn’t sound like much, but very quickly our upstairs started to look like a laundry tornado had run through, leaving piles of dirty clothes in its wake. If you’re thinking to yourself, I can’t possibly trust my husband to take care of MY laundry, I … think you may have married the wrong man.