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Wet towels can kill your marriage!
Times of India ^ | MONDAY, MAY 16, 2005 12:15:52 AM | Sunday Times

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: america; divorce; drgray; india; love; marriage; mars; men; nutrag; relationship; venus; women
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To: ContraryMary

Leaving it down is mine.


301 posted on 05/15/2005 10:19:21 PM PDT by flada (Y2K? What are you selling, chicken or sex jelly?)
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To: flada

should have read everyone else before responding


302 posted on 05/15/2005 10:20:35 PM PDT by flada (Y2K? What are you selling, chicken or sex jelly?)
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To: clee1

Please draw me a picture, I want to see.


303 posted on 05/15/2005 10:24:13 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (LL THE)
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To: bannie
SHAME ! SHAME ! (I like your attitude)

Nam Vet

304 posted on 05/15/2005 10:28:05 PM PDT by Nam Vet (MSM reporters think the MOIST dream they had the night before is a "reliable source".)
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To: All

Read it all up to this point.

Single for life was a great choice when I think of the alternative.


305 posted on 05/15/2005 10:29:19 PM PDT by oceanperch ( Labrador Lover!)
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To: Fam4Bush
I wonder how Muslim women feel about their husbands caressing them with the hand they use to wipe their butt after the poo poo.

That would not be very sexy for me.
306 posted on 05/15/2005 10:32:04 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (LL THE)
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To: CarrotAndStick

I think the cartoonist, Larson, covered scientists pretty well : )


307 posted on 05/15/2005 10:34:25 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: ContraryMary

I not only put the seat back down, I close the lid. It is amazing what does not end up in the toilet that way, especially when grandkids are involved.


308 posted on 05/15/2005 10:39:32 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (Grant no power to government you would not want your worst enemies to wield against you.)
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To: OKIEDOC
I wonder how Muslim women feel about their husbands caressing them with the hand they use to wipe their butt after the poo poo. That would not be very sexy for me.>>>>>>>

http://www.worldarterotica.com/islam/negative-muslims.htm

LOL Muslim death threat letters to the site that posted this pic..... (is that an abused ham in the corner ?)

309 posted on 05/15/2005 10:44:02 PM PDT by Selkie ("There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent)
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To: Sterco

That is what two bathrooms come in handy.


310 posted on 05/15/2005 10:44:53 PM PDT by television is just wrong (http://heidisblogs.blogspot.com/ (visit blogs, visit ads).)
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To: CarrotAndStick

That is quite slobby, leaving wet towels on the floor like it's a YMCA locker rooom or something. I can understand that being a real peever.


311 posted on 05/15/2005 10:49:27 PM PDT by Bullish
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To: Selkie
I've held it for too long.

No matter HOW much the muzzies hate it, history has taught, armies and prostitutes ALWAYS find ways to mingle.

Nam Vet

312 posted on 05/15/2005 10:55:24 PM PDT by Nam Vet (MSM reporters think the MOIST dream they had the night before is a "reliable source".)
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To: CarrotAndStick

Verbosity.

That's the one that makes me want to strangle my wife. When I converse with folks at a party or social gathering I like to ask questions about them and hear about their life and their thoughts on things. My wife likes to dominate any conversation. It drives me nuts. I actually avoid social settings with her.


313 posted on 05/15/2005 11:15:38 PM PDT by mercy (never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over a year now)
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To: Cindy

I got an answer for that one. I have my own bathroom. She enters at her peril. I'll clean my own toilet thankyou. She stores some extra towels in there cause I don't use all the space but she knows better than to enter my domain if I am ensconced.


314 posted on 05/15/2005 11:17:31 PM PDT by mercy (never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over a year now)
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To: CarrotAndStick

Well, I've read the whole thread and haven't seen my pet peeve yet. Sweetie pie likes to take a cup of coffee with him in the mornings when he leaves for work...no problem.


Until he decides to clean out his truck of all the used coffee cups and they end up on whatever's handy next to the back door. Don't suggest paper or styrofoam cups because he likes real coffee cups. So, when I'm low on coffee cups I go outside and bring them in.

As far as the seat being up or down, leave it up because I've gotten so used to putting it down, I'd probably wake up too fast and die of a heart attack.


315 posted on 05/15/2005 11:24:23 PM PDT by Sally'sConcerns (Prayers for TexasCowboy's full success in kicking that nasty cancer's butt. My bet is on TC winning!)
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To: Cindy

My wife used to gripe constantly about me leaving the toilet seat up, so now I leave it down.
Of course it has pee all over it.


316 posted on 05/15/2005 11:29:03 PM PDT by philetus (What goes around comes around)
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To: Nowhere Man
I see things much the same way. My Mother did live alone for awhile, while me and my sister lived in those apartments, but NO ONE was really happy.Me and my sister hated apartment life... no privacy, no security, having to have the air on in the WINTER, because it was so hot, with the "free" heat, being woke up at 2:00 am, by loud music or arguing from the apartment above, having my vehicle towed away, for a flat tire the NIGHT it went flat... and so on... NOW-- with the three of us together I will NOT say everything goes perfectly smooth, but we get along pretty well. At least, we all agree on most of the big things.On lesser important things, like decorating the house, etc, for the most part, I left that up to my mother and sister(I admit, if it were up to me, the walls would probably be blank, instead of little plates and plaques ans such on the walls). BUT--one area, were we DO clash, is my collecting hobby. My sister would LOVE to toss all of my old stuff out, and put more knickknack junk in its place.And, on that note, Nowhere Man...

I was away for awhile tonight. Had to go on ANOTHER tv-run, the SECOND in 2 days!! This time, it was another Rca, a ctc-25xa, from 1967. this is a rectangular set, with a tuning window that looks at first glance like an LCD display or such(it just has normal dials behind it.)

The set is in good shape, with a big mark on the top, where some dingbat left a plant or something on it, for many years. Otherwise, it looks quite good. AND-- it WORKS!! After careful checking, and slow-start with the HO output tube unhooked, and checking the cage(all is well inside,) I fired her up. GOOD tube! The CRT has been replaced sometime in the past,looks like a rere-earth or matrix type in it now. NO cataracts at all. I had a Dayton station on for about 10 minutes or so, then, checked the fly, to see if it was getting hot. NO, it was COOL!! After about 20 minutes-- the fly was only barely lukewarm.. WONDERFUL news!! GOOD color, all 3 guns strong, . The only problems I could see on the nearly 40- year old set, -- the VHF tuner seems to be a little messed up, in the fine tuning knob. And, the purity is off a little, along with a little convergence error. And there is a VERY slight ripple in the picture-- I'm sure a cap or two in the PS could use changing.

BUT hey, the price was right. FREE!! Saved another one from a crushing burial. What a weekend, TWO old Tv's in 2 days!! a roundie ctc-16 combo from '65, and now a ctc25, from '67!! And BTW-- the guy who turned me on to both of the sets,(after allowing me to lose a ctc5 AND 7 last year) is a member of the Dayton radio club, and is about ten years older than me, at 47, and HE lives at home, too, and in his PARENTS house, not one he is half-paying for. He has NO intention of leaving, and does NOT plan to ever marry. (not worth the trouble, he states).

317 posted on 05/16/2005 1:50:07 AM PDT by Rca2000 (America, oh America, I MISS YOU!!!!!)
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To: philetus
My wife used to gripe constantly about me leaving the toilet seat up, so now I leave it down. Of course it has pee all over it.

Let me guess. As a loving, Christian husband, you're not the one who cleans the bathroom, right?

318 posted on 05/16/2005 1:54:05 AM PDT by k2blader ('Lost' ping list - Please FReepmail me if you want on/off. :-)
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To: Sterco

Lol...


319 posted on 05/16/2005 1:57:55 AM PDT by Godebert
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To: ContraryMary

Most toilet seats have a lid. So I put both down and my wife does too. This makes it fair for everyone.


320 posted on 05/16/2005 3:59:34 AM PDT by Nightshift (Faith is something everyone has. The question is faith in what?)
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