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.
Ever see the commercial.....gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right now.
For some women, sometimes there isn't enough time for her to put the seat down.......lol
Speaking from experience here.
Even funnier if the lid happens to fall when one is daydreaming and hardly even 'there.'
That fluffy lid cover IS a pet peeve. It won't stay up without being held up. Fluffy lid covers were banished in my household shortly after one of them demonstrated absorbency about 3 AM. The lid and seat dropped right in the line of fire in a pitch dark bathroom.
see my reply at post 261
A dumb genius is more accurate.
I should have seen plenty of signs and bailed out early. Of course, she might say the same thing.
I don't know....I have always found sitting down in the shower to very inconvenient.
(I hope to be forgiven for this post.)
All the women of my past agree on my top relationship-busting foiable: dating other women. Oh well!
That's the best post of the thread.
Oh boy, my list would be a long one!
By the way, as for the wet towels....can I divorce my boys for that one? ;)
LOL!! It's a good thing that he didn't have an APPOINTMENT in China!
That happens to be my wifes pet peave so I guess they cancel one another out.
Wash your hands. Just before you exit the bathroom--EVERY time.
:-D
>And when I want to go out to eat, I just tell him I made beanie weenie for dinner.<
Whoa, that's bordering on abuse! (But, hey, if it works, do you mind if I borrow it?)
There's an invisible "ex" in the word "B*TCH."
"I got out checked the master cylinder WHICH WAS WAY LOW and he then added fluid. Funny how that red brake light went out"
When you're brake fluid is "way low" it means your pads are worn out. Go get a brake job before you ruin the rotors
It's probably already been said, but...
You always close your eyes when you "proceed," or do you "proceed" on the top?
:D
"Mommy, Mommy, I just knocked my tooth brush into the toilet."
Mom gets a new toothbrush out of the closet, gives it to her son, fishes the old one from the toilet and tosses it in the waste pail.
Her son then tosses Mom's toothbrush in the waste pail.
Mom asks, "Why did you throw my toothbrush in the waste pail?"
The son replies, "I bumped your toothbrush into the toilet last week."
Mine, too. And occasionally it is left unflushed. Ugh.
Mmmmm... cake...
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