I’m not saying my husband of 16 years and I are competitive but when he tells me he loves me, I always say, ‘I love you more,’ so that I win. Jon and I learnt early on after a couple of board games and sharing a few desserts that we were both competitive – each having to ‘win’ even when nothing is at stake, and since then we’ve done our best to keep the combative side of us well away from one another. We know we both like to compete, so we choose different areas to try and excel rather than end up in direct competition with one another.
But a recent study from Australia pitted
