When it comes to dividing up the chores in a given household, it often seems like it shouldn't require much thought on paper.
While there aren't many of us who outright enjoy doing the little tasks that make a home run, there are preferences and chores that we're better at doing than others so it should be largely easy to divide them along those lines. However, if one partner creates the impression that they're hopelessly bad at all of them, their spouse can often feel like it's easier to do everything themselves than fix the other person's mistakes later.
This is known as weaponized incompetence and it's something that many women report experiencing from their spouses while they're living together.
But while a greater number of people have become more aware of this concept lately, that doesn't necessarily make it easier to resolve issues of weaponized incompetence.
In some cases, we've seen people go on a "wife strike" where they stopped cleaning only to learn that their partners are fine with living in filth.
But one woman has a different strategy. And while she described it as petty, it seemed to work for her.
