To ask if there is any couple out there who doesn't have this argument or a variation on it?

[moutonfou]

He can't bear my 'nagging'. I ask how else I'm meant to communicate that I'd like him to do basic things like put empty packaging in the bin and rinse down the bath tub if it's full of hair.

Does anyone ever win? Does it ever end?

We don't, but DP says I "wheedle" rather than nag. He does the packaging on the table thing (and till receipts - just dumps them on the kitchen table). I tidy it into neatness so all his crap is in one pile, and ask him to sort through it and chuck what he doesn't need. It takes him like, 3 seconds.

Mind you, I've asked him 3 times now to change the lightbulb in the bedroom and it still isn't done. It's been a month!