Marriage is twice as stressful as raising kids, a study has found.
Any parent knows kids are hard work, but it seems husbands are worse!
The research, conducted by researchers from the University of Padova, found that 75% of the women involved did most of the parenting and household duties.
One in five of the women in the study said that their main cause of stress resulted from a lack of support from their other half.
The study also discovered that the health of a man often deteriorates drastically when their wife passes away.
However, when a woman loses her husband, she statistically becomes healthier and women handle the stress of the loss better too.
Marriage is twice as stressful as raising children
"Widows cope significantly better than widowers with the stress deriving from the loss of a partner," said Dr Caterina Trevisan, of the University of Padova.
Dr. Caterina spoke to The Telegraph, explaining that the stress of raising children is often far more short-lived than that of the stress of a marriage.
"Since women generally have a longer lifespan than men, married women may also suffer from the effects of caregiver burden, since they often devote themselves to caring for their husband in later life."
These findings tally with previous research that found husbands create an extra 7 hours of housework for their wives every week.
Researchers from the University of Michigan looked at housework hours in relation to income dynamics in a study titled "Who Really Does The Dishes".
They said: "Married men are likely to report greater weekly hours of core housework for themselves than hours reported for them by their wives."
The findings revealed that the women that participated in the study averaged more than 18 hours of housework per week, while men averaged roughly seven hours per week.
As well as this, the study also found that the number of children in a household and the level of the wife's education played a significant factor in their results.
