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A mum who nearly left her partner because she was "fed up with him not helping with household chores" went on strike - and says it worked.
Karla Loft, 32, says she's spent most of her entire 11-year relationship keeping her house tidy, without much help from her partner, Carl Scott, 42, a youth work business owner.
From cooking, cleaning and dusting to washing up, looking after their children and cleaning bathrooms, Karla claims the majority of the housework and childcare fell on her.
Karla says she would often spend the day cleaning up after their children and Carl would complain if the house looked messy when he came home.
A mum who nearly left her partner because she was "fed up with him not helping with household chores" went on strike - and says it worked.
Karla Loft, 32, says she's spent most of her entire 11-year relationship keeping her house tidy, without much help from her partner, Carl Scott, 42, a youth work business owner.
From cooking, cleaning and dusting to washing up, looking after their children and cleaning bathrooms, Karla claims the majority of the housework and childcare fell on her.
Karla says she would often spend the day cleaning up after their children and Carl would complain if the house looked messy when he came home.
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00:00So I'm Carl, I'm Carla, and the reason why we took part of Mums on Strike was due to
00:09the fact of me really not understanding as much as what Carla does around the house really.
00:15I'm like, I'm a workaholic, so everything consisted around work, work, work, work, work,
00:20work.
00:21And I just didn't understand or see the graph that Carla actually puts into the house.
00:25Yeah, it did get to a point in our relationship where we actually separated because I felt
00:30so sick to death of feeling like I'm the one that does everything and Carl not recognising
00:34what jobs I do.
00:35And Carl would come home and he'd start huffing and puffing at me, so.
00:38Yeah, I think I learned my lesson, let's say.
00:41You know, there was a lot to it.
00:43I didn't understand exactly what went into the cleaning of the house and the maintaining
00:47of the kids and the school runs and the packed lunches.
00:50So I think within two days, I think I wanted to pull my hair out.
00:54The hardest part for me was identifying what jobs needed to be done.
00:59Because I didn't really help out with much of them, I didn't really get the gist of what
01:03I had to do.
01:04So I was winging it for the first day or so.
01:07But then as time went on, you know, it became known to me exactly what I needed to do around
01:12the house.
01:13You know, the washing, dishwasher obviously has to be done.
01:17When you're getting the kids ready for school in the morning, for example, trying to find
01:20their school clothes and getting them out on time to school because they have to be
01:23at school at a certain time.
01:25So it's, you know, sticking to certain schedules.
01:27Dustin.
01:28I've never even looked at Dustin.
01:32It was an eye-opener, I'll put it that way, but I think we're glad that we did the show.
01:38It's really helped us out.
01:40It's made me look at things a little bit differently.
01:42And I think I've been right to say that I think I'm a little bit better now, don't you think?
01:47Oh yeah, he does so much more now to help out.
01:49It's like 50-50, isn't it?
01:51And he identifies when there's different things that need doing, I don't have to say it to him.
01:55Now it's like a real family partnership and we have decided that the marriage is back
02:00on and we are going to get married.
02:03So yeah, it's all been good since we've took part in the show.