Paul Simon once sang that there are 50 ways to leave your lover, but as any loved up lad or lady will know, there are a million and one ways to annoy them.
Simple pleasures like curling up to enjoy a movie or sitting down to a romantic meal can quickly turn to fodder for fighting when one of you has terrible taste in movies or distractingly bad table manners.
In a new survey, Pringles quizzed 2,000 people to uncover the top 10 biggest tiffs between men and women.
The research found the average person wastes 590 minutes of their life every year watching movies they don’t want to, just to keep their partner happy.
It’s still not the worst offence though; leaving clothes lying on the floor was the number one irritation. The lazy habit is something that winds up women more, with 34 per cent of ladies feeling the frustration compared to 19 per cent of guys.
This was closely followed by wet towels left lying around, and rows about bad bathroom habits like leaving hairs in the shower plug, leaving the toilet seat up and leaving the lid of the toothpaste off.
It seems social media is making us antisocial at home too, as being glued to our mobiles was the fourth largest irritation.
And it doesn’t matter how much we fancy someone, there’s ever chance we will kick them out of bed for eating crisps, a behaviour that made the list of messy eating habits, aka offence number four.
Top 10 Ways Couples Annoy Each Other
- Leaving clothes on the floor
- Leaving wet towels around the house
- Bad bathroom habits
- Always using phone
- Disagreeing about what film to watch
- Messy eating habits
- Deciding who is cooking
- Picking your nose
- Drunk sexting
- Looking at your ex’s Facebook page
