Ladies are a minefield of masked requirements.
You betcha!
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.
It was a joke
Get those pump bottles of toothpastes, then you won't have to worry any more about having to: 1. pick the tube up. 2. take off the lid 3. squeeze 4. put the lid back on
OR
Have all those pesky teeth extracted and then the fake ones can be left in the denture soaker box overnight. Also, as an added bonus, YOUR tube of denture toothpaste will be separate from HER tube of real toothpaste. . then, you can chuckle to yourself every time HER tube of real toothpaste dries up! Chortle! Snort! Hah!
Say, that looks like a cup.
They seem more interested in playing the macho, mine's bigger'n yours, game. I suppose their wives don't make them clean the toilet, huh? Hahahahahaha.
(Actually, that's one of the benefits I've enjoyed all these years because of my willingness to compromise in this area. I don't have to clean the toilet. Hahahahahahaha.)
Ladies are a minefield of masked requirements.
You betcha!
If I said to my husband that he needs to get the brakes checked now, he would just brush it off. So I did a Google search and found this article to print out and put before him .
Low brake fluid
My husband knows a lot about the workings of cars but he has an aversion to doing anything mechanical. I don't know how our cars ever last as long as they do. This one is an 1983 Datsun Maxima.
"Actually, that's one of the benefits I've enjoyed all these years because of my willingness to compromise in this area. I don't have to clean the toilet."
Yep. That's precisely why I started sitting down. I saw all the mess I didn't realize I was making. I realized that I was not the one with the primary chore of cleaning that mess. Out of respect for my wife I made the choice to do what I could to prevent making such a mess.
My wife has never questioned why I started sitting and has never questioned my masculinity because of it. And since she is the only one who counts in that category, I can just smile and brush off the "young lions" here. Only my wife, my doctor and I know if I can measure the depth of the water. It doesn't matter to them and I'm too old to be concerned or do anything about it now.
A separate hamper or clothes basket especially dedicated to your extra-dirty clothes would solve that problem nicely...or else eliminate entirely any excuses for leaving your work clothes on the floor, whichever way you want to look at it.
I should have kept my mouth shut - doh!
Somehow I doubt "caress" is a term used to describe a Muslim man's feelings toward his wife.
And those who cannot asertain the position of said seat, and adjusting it according to their need, is mine!
Fine, but if the same conditions are allowed to be applied to men, we might not notice the position of the seat and... fire away, there by leaving you another sort of wet surprise.
SOLUTION: Just learn to adjust the seat to your needs. Heck, it can't be that hard, men have been doing it for centuries.
LOL, that's exactly what I started doing to my girlfriend when she first started that idiotic seat game with me.
But honey the seat IS down! You got to start training them somehow.... good job!!
Wow, the mold from the moist towel must infect their brains.
I have many many bad habits but I always hang up my damp towels. I also appreciate the fact that my wife has the unmitigated gall, in front of me, to just drop hers on the floor...
...but then I'm easily distracted from my outrage :-)
Start saving them. Presenting her with a bagful "to use later" will definitely win you points, lol.
Oh. Whew.. :-)
I would think that's number two after "leaving it down while splattering on it."
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