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> Suppose the two partners have different ideas of what constitutes "cleaning the house".

This is essentially how my partner and I have divided up housework -- the person whose requirements for "done" are a superset of the other's does the chore. Fortunately we're fairly balanced in that regard.

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Oh, the power of low standards?

No, the other way around. The one who is pickier about dishwashing, washes the dishes.

Doesn't that have the unfortunate side effect of making the person who is already more annoyed at the state of things even more annoyed at always having to fix them?

I wouldn't think so, at least in an ongoing plan. For example, I tend to load the dishwasher because many people I've lived with are not good at loading it for best cleaning. So long as I'm not doing everything else as well, it doesn't bother me.

Yes. But there's an incentive with that system to turn into a total sloth.

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