In no particular order, here are some of the top annoying, uncouth, disgusting, nasty, and irritating behaviors that can grow into monumental issues in a marriage.
These bad habits were gleaned from posts on our Marriage Forum.
Bad Hygiene Habits
- Leaving wet towels on the floor.
- Burping.
- Lack of personal hygiene.
- Picking your nose.
- Using a fork as a back-scratcher.
- Passing gas.
- Refusing to replace an empty toilet tissue roll.
- Not picking up after yourself and acting like a slob.
Nasty Public Habits
- Exaggerating your stories at parties.
- Calling your partner by a baby name in public.
- Laughing at your own jokes that others don't see as funny.
- Putting your feet on the furniture.
- Being drunk.
- Laughing shrilly.
- Taking forever to get to the point in a conversation.
- Making embarassing, humiliating, or degrading remarks about your spouse in public.
- Responding in baby talk.
- Criticising your spouse in public.
- Borrowing in excess.
- Engaging in childish bickering in public.
- Flirting with other people of the opposite sex.
Annoying Relationship Habits
- Asking your spouse to tell you how you look.
- Making negative comments about what your spouse is wearing.
- Messing up the car radio stations, or the settings on your home theater set up.
- Packing too many items on a trip.
- Having an inability to read a map correctly.
- Taking too long to get ready to leave the house.
- Boring your spouse by spending too much time shopping.
- Nagging.
- Reading emails while talking to your spouse.
- Being possessive.
- Spending too much time on the computer.
- Being bossy.
- Spending too much money.
- Using sex as a tool of manipulation.
- Showing fear when watching a horror film, especially by the guy in the relationship.
