Dear Steve and Shirley, my boyfriend and I have been living together for a year, but we’ve been together for 9 years. I have 3 kids that live with us and his mom lives with us too. My boyfriend works long hours to make sure that our finances are taken care of and I work full time too. We split the household chores and since my older kids are out of school for the summer, they have chores that we expect them to do daily. I can’t say that it really helps us out because they don’t always do their chores...........