Give credit where credit is due. But what is point of praising insignificant actions? I think more than anything else, women are guilty of praising pointless gestures. Please stop saying your other half is fantastic just because he makes you a cup of tea!

Does he do anything else? ‘No not really’. So, basically he makes a cup of tea every so often.

What about the ironing once a week or the washing? Nope, he doesn’t do that.

Even a child can make a cup of tea. It isn’t the most difficult of tasks. But speak to some women and they make out their other half works harder than Ned Flanders in the home.

Now, I am not special but there is something to be said for self-reliance.

I find it strange when visiting homes and the food is served and we simply sit there afterwards.

I am a ‘take the plate to the sink and wash the damn plate’ kind of guy. The idea that I should be served like I am in some kind of restaurant is slightly embarrassing.

I think we men also revel in the fact that we can get a huge round of applause for doing menial tasks.

‘Oh, did you see how I washed them dishes today?’ ‘Yes, dear, you are best.’ The smaller the task, the more a man wants praise for it.

Just last week I spoke to one friend who was boasting that he had managed to work the washing machine for the first time. He has been married 18 years and is 42.

Look, you put the clothes in, put some powder in, turn the knob and press start. This is not washing clothes.

Washing clothes is taking the clothes to the nearest river and washing them on a large rock.

Do that and we will say you washed some clothes today.

Yes, I know women probably like to praise their other halves so as not to be left out.

But a cup of tea does not count. Unless of course he goes out to harvest the tea leaves, walks ten miles to fetch the water, builds a fire to boil the water and milks a cow.

If he makes tea like that, we will give him credit where credit is due.