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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: savedbygrace

Pets are so much a part of our lives, aren't they?


81 posted on 05/15/2005 5:40:50 PM PDT by Die_Hard Conservative Lady (I have left this blank for a reason....)
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To: CarrotAndStick

Underwear on the floor can be a real problem, especially if it belongs to her boyfriend.


82 posted on 05/15/2005 5:41:20 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (...shall not be infringed EXCEPT.....)
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To: afnamvet
Not throwing away used paper towels that are wadded up on the counter ranks right up there. When asked, she responds with.."I'll reuse them". Never happens.

My husband does that and it drives me crazy. I thought he was the only person in the world that did that.

83 posted on 05/15/2005 5:41:38 PM PDT by muggs
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To: Voir Dire

It's the idea that every time a poor slob has to raise the seat, he is transferring dangerous germs like ecoli to the hand that does the job. Then, in the inevitable moment of sleep deprivation and confusion, he fails to wash that contaminated hand. Result: In his sleep, he later sucks his finger, gets a terrible disease, dies and then the poor widow may regret her "raise the seat" law. Or maybe not. Now she's got the whole house, money, cars and dogs and all the toilet seats will be in a perpetual PC position.


84 posted on 05/15/2005 5:42:29 PM PDT by Paulus Invictus (Be neat! Raise the seat!)
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To: Bobkk47

If you think your masculinity is jeopardized by sitting to pee, you must have a fragile hold on it. (Masculinity, that is.)


85 posted on 05/15/2005 5:42:31 PM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: eastforker

That's mine. One of my "chores" (I'm 45) is to take out the garbage. I cannot stand it when my family puts empty cereal boxes, empty two liter bottles, empty milk jugs...my God, I'm gettin' pissed just writing about it.


86 posted on 05/15/2005 5:42:32 PM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: Die_Hard Conservative Lady

You betcha.


87 posted on 05/15/2005 5:43:11 PM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: Larry Lucido

Some helpful hints for men:
if you miss the toilet bowl - you can clean it up
if you can ogle at other women, we can ogle at other men
if you want us to watch sports (or cook for you and your friends) - well, don't complain when we want you to go to the theater or watch a "girly movie"
if it's not in the laundry basket, i'm not washing it
your dad is not the perfect addition when just the two of us are hanging out
realize not all women are shopaholics or ditzy, some of us don't enjoy shopping and may know more about carpentry than you do.


88 posted on 05/15/2005 5:43:30 PM PDT by WomanBiologist
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To: Blurblogger

I was not perfect, but my late husband and I had a pretty darned good marriage. I did not care if he left the seat up. He got over it that I left the cap off the toothpaste sometimes. I tried really hard to remember to put it back on. I don't get all uptight about stuff like that. :)


89 posted on 05/15/2005 5:44:05 PM PDT by Goodgirlinred ( GoodGirlInRed Four More Years!!!!!)
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To: muggs

What's amazing is that she has a phobia about germs. Go figure.


90 posted on 05/15/2005 5:44:44 PM PDT by afnamvet (31st Fighter Wing Tuy Hoa AB RVN 68-69 "Return with Honor")
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To: Sterco

LOL!


91 posted on 05/15/2005 5:45:11 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: savedbygrace

Pets are so much a part of our lives, aren't they?


92 posted on 05/15/2005 5:46:33 PM PDT by Die_Hard Conservative Lady (I have left this blank for a reason....)
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To: cyborg

,,, bookmark this thread :)


93 posted on 05/15/2005 5:47:07 PM PDT by shaggy eel
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To: Paulus Invictus
Result: In his sleep, he later sucks his finger...

Your hypothetical 'poor slob' is a weirdo.

94 posted on 05/15/2005 5:47:09 PM PDT by wimpycat (Hyperbole is the opium of the activist wacko.)
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To: Nightshift

for later


95 posted on 05/15/2005 5:47:27 PM PDT by Nightshift (Faith is something everyone has. The question is faith in what?)
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To: Cindy
A wet towel (as a result of a toilet seat kept up!) most be THE WORST!!

:-(

96 posted on 05/15/2005 5:48:12 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (**AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT IS NOT SO MUCH "WHO" WE STAND FOR, BUT RATHER "WHAT" WE STAND FOR**)
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To: Die_Hard Conservative Lady
Seat & lid both get closed is my house. More toddlers have drowned in toilets, than been killed by guns...so it makes sense.

(True - see stats on CDC website.)

Besides, the dog knows how to sneak her nose under the lid, get a drink, and leave it closed.

97 posted on 05/15/2005 5:48:15 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: Gunrunner2
And leaving the toilet seat down is mine.

Yes, I always wondered why their was a supposed correct default position for the toilet seat.

98 posted on 05/15/2005 5:48:27 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Bobkk47

"American men are femininzed enough as it is, now you want us to sit down when we pee?"


How bout you just make sure you wash your hands instead??


99 posted on 05/15/2005 5:48:55 PM PDT by Fam4Bush (The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running. - Yogi Berra)
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To: wimpycat

In this case, the slob is hypothetical, but many slobs do suck their fingers.


100 posted on 05/15/2005 5:49:06 PM PDT by Paulus Invictus (Be neat! Raise the seat!)
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