Eating and reading in bed?
Betta Living has found that the most detested bedroom habit in relationships is when your partner eats in bed. For 38% this could be a deal breaker if your partner does this on one of your first dates.
With a third of Brits who regularly eat in bad, mostly in the North East, this is a warning to stop if you are looking for love and want to keep your existing partner in your bed and not just in your head.
A close second is leaving dirty crockery on the bedside table- a book, a box of tissues, perhaps a lamp, but not mould ridden coffee cups and crusty plates please!
Smoking may look sexy on screen but in reality- it reduces your lung capacity, therefore making you less active when having sex and the butts stink the whole bedroom out! We are not sat outside a pub right now we are in our home and you ain't gonna get any with that bedside decoration!
They may not smell as bad but phones, I pads and laptops are a real bugbear and these detract from kisses, cuddles and sex. Put the device down and get down and dirty with your partner!
Other obvious aggravations include;
Snoring- With work commitments still on our mind we don’t need you to keep us awake with your incessant rattling!
Working in bed- This is a place of calm- don’t bring the stress of work in here too!
Stealing the covers- If buying two duvets is what we need to do then so be it!
Leaving clothes of the floor- We don’t want to date a teenager- but a grown man- please act like one!
Basic hygiene- If you don’t brush your teeth before bed- we ain’t kissing you and if you can’t be bothered to shower after the gym and a day at work, then forget any nookie either.
Talking in your sleep- Really you can’t shut up for eight hours of the day??
Phone calls in bed- I am trying to sleep- your booming voice next to me with the light on is really not helping my case!
Bedroom habits are evolving and rooms are merging into one. Just as many people watch TV in bed as they do in their living room- leaving you horizontal at least 4 times per week. With 1 in 5 houses who have a TV as big as their living room one in their bedroom, it’s no wonder that it’s more tempting than downstairs.
Barry Rourke from Betta Living said: “As part of Sleeptember, we wanted to know exactly what Britain loved and hated in the bedroom. And our research reveals that Britain generally hates nothing more than people who eat in bed.
“We also looked at any regional skews on these figures.
“In London and the South-east eating in bed is by far the biggest bedroom bugbear with 68% listing it as the worst offence in the boudoir versus the national average of 58%.
“This was the same over in the Midlands as well, who also claimed the biggest bedroom offence is dirty crockery abandoned by the bed, with 48% saying they can’t abide it.
"If you’re over in Yorkshire we’d advise that you don’t try and smoke a cigarette in the bedroom – because it is the biggest bedroom hate among 42% of Yorkshiremen and women. And across the Pennines in Manchester, for the majority (51%), their biggest bedroom no-no is people who eat in bed.”
It’s a sad day when couples would rather online shop or read than take some time out with their partner. That top might still be in the shop tomorrow- but will your partner still be lying next to you if you continue to abandon their needs for the sake of bad habits?
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