Wet towels can kill your marriage!

Times of India ^ | MONDAY, MAY 16, 2005 12:15:52 AM | Sunday Times

[CarrotAndStick]

Leaving a wet towel on the bathroom floor may seem a minor issue but it could wreck a relationship. Scientists have identified a list of the most annoying habits that can cause rifts between couples.

The study of minor irritations in domestic life has found that people can almost become "allergic" to a partner's foibles. Failure to control that shrill laugh might end in marriage-destroying fury. Among the most annoying habits are failing to hang up towels, leaving a new loo roll on top of the empty one and using a fork as a back-scratcher.

Cringe-inducing endearments such as "babykins" can also cause an adverse reaction. When repeated, a couple can reach snapping point.

Many of the habits detailed in the study, published in the academic journal Personal Relationships, are the familiar fibre of male-female interaction. They include nose-picking, burping and tatty clothes in men and lateness, verbosity and demands for reassurance about clothing in women.

The study, funded by the US government's health research arm and conducted at Louisville University, charted the grim "deromanticisation" of more than 160 relationships. It also compared what was termed "social allergen frequency" (nasty habits) with relationship satisfaction and failure in a further 274 people. The report, Social Allergies in Romantic Relationships, aims to establish the nature of the link between nasty habits and nasty divorce. Some of the issues raised will provide bored couples with a new range of things to complain about.

[RavenATB]

"The study, funded by the US government's health research arm and conducted at Louisville University, charted the grim "deromanticisation"...

I could have saved them a ton of money for that study by providing them with a realistic definition.

Definition: "Deromanticismation" -- the realization that you married a bit@#.

[wimpycat]

[Bosco]

"Familiarity breeds contempt" - Mark Twain

[MilspecRob]

Gee, It was my ex's bonking my former best friend that that sort of had me peeved.

[patton]

Water's cold.

Deep, too.

[SmithL]

I dunno' My car is more spoiled than the cat. If I get near the Ford Dealer, it starts with the "Hi honey, I'm home!"

[Rca2000]

Ok I have been reading all of this, and as a single man living with two women(mother and sister), The toilet seats are usually down, and the lids, too. In my opinion, if a little thing like that would cause a divorce, then the couple should not had gotten married in the first place-- considering the way some people I know, who stay married, to spouses(M and F), who cheat do drugs, lie, and so on).

As for pets... I have a big cat, who loves to knock things in the floor. He used to drink out of the toilet, too. One time, he reached up to get a drink, and the lid was up, and somehow, it fell, and I saw him running out of the bathroom sacred to death!! Lately though, he has been knocking pans and dishes out of the dish drainer and onto the kitchen floor. He also LOVES to claw the rug, couch my speakers, us, etc.. ESPECIALLY when he wants something.... Pets... what are you going to do?? you love 'em too much to get rid of them, you know.

[BobS]

"Leaving the toilet seat up is my #1 pet peeve."

Yes. I was told about that. You can drown in the dark:):)

[muir_redwoods]

Of course if the lady lets the wet towel slip off her in your presence.....

[TADSLOS]

Known to create certain marital tension

[Doctor Raoul]

We were incompatible signs. I'm a Scorpio and she was a B*tch.

[ddtorque]

ping

[muggs]

So does my husband. That's weird.

[cyborg]

wow bookmarking is right!

[goodnesswins]

Uh....my husband throws them at the dog.....or whatever....and occasionally picks them up, too.....LOL....but, he puts the toilet seat DOWN, so I don't complain much!

[Joe 6-pack]

Optimism and Pessimism, despite being in direct opposition to one another, have one thing in common...they both achieve results. People really ought to look at the upside of every perceived flaw...

He leaves the cap off the toothpaste? At least he brushes his teeth. With his own toothbrush.

He leaves the toilet seat up? He didn't seek relief in the backyard...even though he had to hold it for the 2.5 hours she was in the bathroom.

She spends a long time in the bathroom? You've got the remote all to yourself...

[cyborg]

That's the TRUTH.

[Gunrunner2]

THAT is funny.

[patton]

I agree with you 100%. Toilet seat, toothepaste lid - what self-centered idiot has time to worry about this stuff, and why is their partner so insensitive not to accomodate?

Little kid power games. Grow up.

Besides, you know your marriage is dead, when your wife looks at you, and says..."I...I...I hate that thing you do. That...That...BREATHING!"

[Cindy]

Reality is both having the flu and only one toilet.
Our new house has 3 toilets.