5 Habits That Annoy Your Spouse

Looking at your phone is on the top of the list.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Yes. Marriage is often an exercise and tolerating whatever habits
annoy you about your spouse. Still, there are scientific reasons
that some pet peeves feel like nails on the chalkboard
of intimacy. According to researchers, these are the five habits
that annoy spouse is the most.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Are you ready I'm about to get into trouble here.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Number one is the way you chew. That doesn't really
bother me at all. I think one time recently, Coco
was very close to me on the couch eating and
I heard her chewing, but it didn't bother me. I don't.
It doesn't come up a lot. What about you and chewing?
And Eric Christine? No, we're good, We're good.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
We're good.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yes, that's not a thing.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Okay. I'm thinking of a coworker once whose husband was
annoyed because she was breathing.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well, that happens to me all the time. Why are
you breathing? Why did you open the door and come
in the house? Why are you here? All right? So
the way you choose up there, we're okay on that? Okay,
looking at your phone is number two.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Okay, that's big.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
That should be number one.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, that should be number one, right, really be number one,
because I've been in trouble for looking at my phone
and not listening. Christine, you've caught Eric. He not listening.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Claims that he can multitask and be scrolling while I
tell him something, But then when he puts down the phone,
he goes, Okay, so what now I know there's no
multitasking happening. So now when he's on the phone and
I want to tell him something, I start to talk
and he's like, and he's looking at the phone, and
I just say, I'll hold and I stop talking. So

(01:36):
he puts the phone down.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh my god. He usually put the phone down right
away when you hold? Does and do you do the
pop quiz? All right? What did I say?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well not at that point.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well then you know he's listening. But if I have a.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Follow up question after the scrolling, then then we've got
a thing. And I have to do the same thing
for him. You know, when he's talking to me, I
have to pick the phone down. Right, feels better for
both of.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Us, goes both ways, christ In your house, oh yeah,
it's hard.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
In my house because my husband Ryan, he owns his
own business, so a lot is done on his phone,
and I totally understand that he has to work just
like I come to work. Sometimes there are you know,
there are times where I'm like, you know, you're not
supposed to be on your phone, or we need to
get something done. And it happened last week where I
explained something three times on what the plan was for

(02:24):
a certain day, and a couple hours later he came
up to me and he goes, Okay, so what's going
on now? And I looked at him and went, nope,
figure it out. Oh I'm not repeating myself. I said
it three times, Why don't I say it a fourth?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Wow. See, I feel like I'm at home now. My
heart's racing. I've been there many times.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
You're okay, And to Christen's point, I need to give
Eric a little bit of a pass because being a
drummer and freelance work, he does need to be on
top of the phone because he's getting gigs. I wouldn't
want to cost him a gig, of course, but if
it's something like you're saying, where I need like to
give you information, I'll wait so you can put it down.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Can I tell you the best feeling in the world
my wife says, did you hear me? And I go,
yeah I did, and she goes, Okay, what did you say?
And I get it right? Who when I get it right?
Oh dude, I'm throwing gatorade on myself. I'm high five
in like the kids. Yeah all right, So wait the
way you choose number one looking at your phone. Number
two five habits and annoy your spouse. Number three is

(03:18):
bragging about yourself. Oh that's not a thing. Yeah, not
a thing with us either, a thing spending money irresponsibly
Number four. Money always comes up. And finally keeping score
in the relationship. Oh well, I did the cat litter
last night. Oh that maybe that.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Kind of thing, maybe like a friendly like Ryan and
I sometimes do that in a friendly manner, you know,
like we'll rock paper, sister on who's going to change
the baby's diaper? You know, like something like that.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
But you know, okay, So the biggest for us, the
biggest uh looking at your phone here is the phone
we can all relate to. We want to put the
phone down. Also, just as a side note, there's a
thermstat Wars is a big thing too. I know it's
not in the top five, but it's a big thing
at home in the office, Science has an answer for
They say the ideal sweet spot for both comfort and

(04:04):
brain power is between seventy and seventy two degrees.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh no, wonder, this show sometimes goes off the rails.
It's seventy eight in here right now.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
It's okay right now, but sometimes it's freezing. And what
happens is if it's two hot or too cold, your
brain is distracted by discomfort and it also affects your mood.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
All right, So the temperature we should all agree on
is seventy.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Two, between seventy and seventy two.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
All right, so seventy one are you listening, Oh my gosh,
listening

Speaker 1 (04:29):
It down your phone by please