“He grew up in another country with maids who ironed his underwear, so it’s been a learning curve!”

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"There are exceptions if you are sick or out of town. It helps with the issues we had with different standards of cleanliness. It also helps me not feel as if I'm stuck cleaning the whole house, and my spouse doesn’t feel as if I’m constantly asking them to do chores. 

"Communal space cleaning has been an ongoing point of contention, and our accord has so far been the best solution we have tried. For context, we both work full time and do not have children."

"He knows once I’ve graduated, things will go back to an even split. It works out beautifully for us, and I’m incredibly lucky to have a partner who wasn’t even asked to pick up the slack — he just did it without question."

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