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Many couples fight about chores, but the real issue is usually fairness and feeling unseen. Splitting every task exactly in half tends to backfire, because both partners keep score and every responsibility stays psychologically shared. A better approach is equal ownership rather than identical tasks: each partner fully owns specific responsibilities, which removes reminding and supervising and reduces resentment.