Couples: The top 10 things that trigger arguments
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The average couple has 312 arguments a year—and most of them are over really silly things. A new study reveals the top 10 argument triggers, and though they may seem innocuous enough, the Daily Mail notes that one in five Britons have considered breaking up over them:
1. Stubble left in the sink
2. Dirty marks (ew!) in the toilet
3. Flipping through TV channels
4. Not replacing the toilet paper roll
5. Leaving the toilet seat up
Click for the complete list, which actually gets even grosser at the end, and to see the day and time one of these arguments is most likely to occur.
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Thanks for this article. I see a lot of this happening in my couples’ counselling practice. There are certainly bigger issues at play much of the time but people often get caught up in the little details.
I have never argued with my wife about anything on the list until you get to number nine, at which time she fabricated something to argue about that was not even real.
We argue about children, finances and how evil it was to cancel a dental appointment.
Those are time-tested solid reasons to argue.
Yes they are John! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve canceled a dental appointment. As to the rest I am fortunate that my significant other doesn’t seem to have a lot of bad habits or care about mine, which are legion. Then again she does have that nasty habit of….NEVER MIND 🙂
Proof that we pour way too much energy into inconsequential things. Humanity is struggling with injustice, poverty, and disease, and yet we find the strength within ourselves to argue about changing the toilet paper roll?
I’m willing to bet that nine times out of ten, the fights aren’t “really” about these things, but rather are manifestations of more deeply-rooted tensions… Hey, if nothing else, holding on to this belief will help me maintain my delusional faith in the goodness of man.
GL you would be right 9.5 times out of ten. The sad fact that people are generally insecure in their ability to let the other person know that a simple thing annoys them is rampant. Then they let all of the other really powerless things in their lives build up until one of those simple things pushes them over the edge and then all hell breaks loose.
I guess there is a silent agreement in this house that the boys don’t complain about the girls long hair clogging the drain, and we won’t complain about their skidmarks in the crapper.
Actually, most of the complaining is directed toward the cats who don’t cover, scatter litter, or entirely miss the box.
LOL!!! Dang ole cats anyway 🙂