Somebody asked this question online: What is Your Love’s Worst Trait? Here are 15 of the funniest responses…and our recommended solutions. 1. Silence Whenever we get into a fight neither one of us wants to be the first to apologize no matter who’s at fault, even if we go days without talking. Solution: Staring contest. 2. Snooze She sets her alarm an hour and a half early and keeps hitting the snooze button. Solution: Hide her alarm clock somewhere in the room. 3. Ignore He doesn’t ever refill the Brita pitcher. Solution: Drink wine or beer instead. 4. Blah, Blah, Blah She freely shares her internal monologue as if I want to hear it. Solution: Keep asking her to repeat what she said. 5. One Second She takes her food out of the microwave with one second to go and doesn’t press cancel. Solution: Chill out. 6. Reword He changes the words to popular songs and sings them over and over until I sing the words wrong. Solution: Hum. 7. Vroom, Screech, Ahhhh! He screams when he plays video games and it drives me crazy. Solution: Also scream, but at inappropriate times. 8. Keys! He misplaces so many things and never find what he needs. Solution: Get TrackR Bravo. 9. Jealous He won’t dance with me. Solution: Ask to bring his best friend dancing with you. 10. Rewind While watching anything, if she misses one word she’ll stop and rewind it over and over again. Solution: Hide her phone. 11. Pause We’ll be watching something and she’ll pause it to tell me a 10-15 minute story that might not even be related to what we’re watching. Solution: When she pauses, preempt her by telling her about your lunch break that day. 12. Stickers Instead of throwing the stickers off fruit in the garbage, she sticks them to the counter right above the garbage can. She does it deliberately to annoy me! Solution: Stick them on your forehead for the rest of the day. Eventually, she’ll be embarrassed and stop. 13. Move On. She will forget an irrelevant detail of a story and get stuck until she remembers it, leaving me like, “Get on with it already!” Solution: Tell her she has something stuck in her teeth. 14. Socks She takes her socks off in bed and leaves them by her feet under the covers. After days, they pile up and slide to my side. Solution: We have no idea. What do you suggest? 15. Wet Towel Leaves her wet towels on the bed. Solution: Switch sides of the bed with her when the towel is there.
