Your Partner's Most Annoying Habit

I was reading through the Chicago Tribune last night and picked up on a recent US Magazine poll about "What's Your Partner's Most Annoying Habit?".  The Tribune says we are a poll-obsessed world.  This was a sampling of an online poll they encountered this past week. I had a good chuckle as I read through the results. http://www.usmagazine.com/i_us_i_poll_0

54% not picking up after themselves

39% snoring

7%  ditching trash detail

In the comments section of the poll I saw the following  - "When my husband leaves the toilet seat up, I sit down and get a wet bottom."

These habits can definitely become annoying, if you let them.  I believe it's a matter of personal attitude that defines whether we look at this as annoying or as quirky. 

Do you define your roll/chores in the home as 50/50 proposition?  I've found in my marriage that nothing is 50/50.  Sometimes it's 100/0 or 0/100.  I can look at everything my husband does as annoying, or I can accept him for how God created him.  I can ask him to kindly do something for me, or I can berate him with words that tear him down and make him feel and inch tall.  It's my choice.

Sure, it's annoying to have to pick up after someone, to have them snore or forget to take out the garbage.  We all have our faults.  But, is it really worth the battle?

Comments

[Linda]

Maybe speaking to a new widow or widower will show you how valuable your spouse really is if you didn't have them. Sometimes we are too weary and we attact our spouse for not fixing or comforting us and we don't really even know that we are even asking for this help.We all must look to the values of our spouses and the negatives can be prayed to the Lord. "Come unto Me in your times of trouble and I will show you great and mighty things which you knowest not" Jer. 33 : 3