The top 10 everyday niggles and passion killers in relationships are defined as follows;
- Weight gain/lack of exercise.
- Money & Spend thriftiness
- Anti Social working hours
- Hygiene issues, personal cleanliness
- In Laws & extended family seeing too much/too little of.
- Lack of romance (sex, treats etc)
- Alcohol - drinking too much
- Snoring and anti social behaviour
- Lapsed fashion sense - losing touch with fashion & wearing the same old underwear/clothes
- Bathroom habits failing to lock doors, stray toenail cuttings, cleaning up etc
Weight gain is inevitable. Going out to dinner, sharing take aways, curled up together watching a movie eating ice cream, pop corn , chocolate etc will all contribute to that expanding waistline. Once realisation hits that you literally eating the contents of your bank account then common sense prevails and cut backs are introduced hence the need to watch the pennies and decrease the spending. Cue the arguments over how much was spent in the hair salon and the night out with the lads. In addition to keeping the wolf from the door, extra money needs to be earnt and what does that mean? Yep you guessed it....anti social working hours of course! And if your working all the hours in the day, who has the time and energy to devote hours and hours in the bathroom?? Enter # 4!
So how do numbers 1 - 4 lead to # 5? Well if my gorgeous sexy partner had turned into a lardy lazy arsed, stinky pits haggered looking scrooge, I would be too embarrassed for anyone to see him or would use spending time out with my friends and family as an excuse just to get then hell away from him! # 6 - lack of romance/sex.....well do I really need to explain?? 1 - 5 have already put paid to any bedroom antics or loving gestures.
At this point you are now in a relationship with no sex, no money and no time together so there's only one thing for it....alcohol!! You've been driven to it. Drowning your sorrows or getting blind drunk to block out the reality! Bring on # 8! Excessive drinking leads to anti social behaviour and a drunken slumber leads to loud body shaking snoring.
# 9 & 10 I'm sure you can figure out yourself but I think I've made my point.
The slow demise of a relationship stems from the beginning. This knock on effect sequence snowballs and gets out of control.....however only if you let it. If I've learnt anything from past relationships it is focus more on what he/she does well and don't sweat the small stuff!
