Posted on 05/15/2005 4:55:32 PM PDT by 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.
No pictures needed! Nor preferred.
But, usually some calm breathing with thoughts of calm or boring things for half a minute or 3 can solve it.
I told my wife 30 years ago that closing the lid would be the only way I wanted to see the toilets in the home. We have both followed that rule and probably kept cats, dogs and kids from playing in them.
Sigh. It seems I a destined to pay the bills, for everyone born from 1940 to 2005 or so.
None at all. Now you know.
Priceless! Sometimes I let the laundry go ... ah, er, a leetle bit long before doing it, and clothes pile up in the hamper as a result. Our hamper is a large round woven basket with a lid that looks like a Chinese hat. One time I let the laundry go for so long that the lid, placed on top of the clothes, was a good 12 inches from the rim of the basket. When I was out of the house, my husband of 16 years arranged all dark clothes at the top, drew three or four sets of slanted eyes on white paper, cut them out, and taped them to the dark clothes so it looked like people were peeking out from under the hamper lid. When I saw it, I laughed until my eyes watered. And then I did the laundry! ;^)
But the funniest ... perhaps the saddest ... part was when my sweetz related the incident to some folks in his office, laughing at his own joke. One of the women there -- an attractive gal in the process of opting out of her third marriage, youthful looking because of regular Botox treatments, made plenty of money, but still was unhappy with life -- was NOT amused at my husband's tactic.
"Your wife must have a lot of repressed rage," she warned.
*sigh* Some people just don't get it.
"If guys fully understood how many brownie points they could gain by always sitting down to pee, they'd change."
I was hoping somebody would mention this. Many years ago, I happened to need to pee at a time when the sun was streaming through the blinds. My aim was true, but I was shocked and embarrassed at the spray coming back out of the toilet. I've sat down ever since.
Age has since provided me with another reason for sitting to pee. Now that my prostate gland has stolen much of the real estate that my bladder formerly enjoyed, I find that it is much more comfortable to sit than stand.
I actually to work, but I wear shoes that are easy to slip off.
Probably why SHE is opting out of her third marriage. Reminds me of a joke: Scientist have determined that 1 out of 4 people is a freak. So pick out 3 of your friends; if they are OK, then IT'S YOU!!!!!
That line should be the Standard Disclaimer© on about 40% of the threads on FR these days.
*sigh2*
At that point, it's . . . well . . . a p*ssing contest. Who's going to give in, give up control; 'lose' first. A pretty sick status of love between the two, it seems to me.
Actually to receive maximum benefit, you need to ingest your own feces as well.
There is no limit to the stupidity of some people.
"Men generally don't have to worry about falling in!"
Come to think of it, why do women sit sideways on the can?
And ohhhhhhhhh yes, I've been trained to put the toilet seat down. Hell avoided with a simple move.
This came out of my home town.
This is how they waste our hard earned tax dollars.
See #85.
An elderly gentleman went to the local drug store and asked the pharmacist for VIAGRA.
The pharmacist asked "How many?"
The man replied, "Just a few, maybe a half dozen. I cut each one into four pieces."
The pharmacist said, "That's too small a dose. That won't get you through sex."
The old fellow said, "Oh, I'm past eighty years old and I don't even think about sex anymore.
I just want it to stick out far enough so I don't pee on my shoes...."
Nam Vet
The seat position only peeved me once.
I stumbled in , in the middle of the night and didn't turn the light on.
I fell in.
I woke up fast.
Thanks much.
Glad it was worth the bother to you.
"Also, not putting the new roll of TP on the roll and leaving it on the vanity."
Hmmmm, we've got 3 bathrooms and one of them is hers and yet I have been stuck with TP replacing for all the bathrooms.
Ahhhh to be rich in luck and love .......:o)
Allegedly derived from an old custom of numbering the common toilette in the public house "100".
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