The premise of the seven-year itch?
The relationships starts, progresses and evolves. Everything is orgasmic, electrifying and passionate. That is, up until the relationship hits the dreaded seven-year mark. And suddenly things go mightily pear-shaped.
The relationships starts, progresses and evolves. Everything is orgasmic, electrifying and passionate. That is, up until the relationship hits the dreaded seven-year mark. And suddenly things go mightily pear-shaped.
Monogamy is thrown out the window along with respect, love and commitment. There's a sudden itch, which needs to be scratched. Unfortunately, many 
relationships don't survive ...
While nowadays the term has become a fully-fledged member of our dating lexicon, apparently there's a new itch on the relationship break-up agenda and it happens a little earlier than expected.
Two years, six months and 25 days.
This is according to a recent British study of 5000 couples who've been together for more than 10 years.
It seems that, according to the respondents, when the two and a half year mark strikes, women stop caring about their appearance as much, men quit tidying up after themselves so much and most blokes stop bothering to put the toilet seat down.
Spokesman John Sewell said that the reason for the itch was that, while the couple still love each other immensely, they get "a little too comfortable in each other's company".
Women stop wearing make-up, take up trakky daks instead of sexy lingerie and men conveniently forget to pick up their dirty socks, laundry and other mess around the house.
Yet a friend of mine has another theory. While she's just made it over her two and a half year hurdle with her man, the key is to get more romantic, trim and sexy than ever before.
"Holding a man's attention definitely takes work," she said. "Yes, to them, sex with another woman is just sex, but if you're capturing their eye enough, they won't even have time to look around."
Another, who's recently reached the whopping seven-year mark in her relationship concurs. He says the key to it all is exercise, alone time and loads of hanky panky.
"There's no such thing as an itch if you take each day at a time. It's when the focus is on getting too comfortable and no longer caring about things, that's when trouble starts to brew."
But aside from the comfort factor, how long does passion last? Can you re-ignite it once it's lost? Or does that spell the kiss of death for the relationship?
What do you think? Is there such a thing as an "itch"? Do you find your relationships always end after a few months or years? And what's the best way to get the spice back into the relationship?
Happy Lovin!
relationships don't survive ...While nowadays the term has become a fully-fledged member of our dating lexicon, apparently there's a new itch on the relationship break-up agenda and it happens a little earlier than expected.
Two years, six months and 25 days.
This is according to a recent British study of 5000 couples who've been together for more than 10 years.
It seems that, according to the respondents, when the two and a half year mark strikes, women stop caring about their appearance as much, men quit tidying up after themselves so much and most blokes stop bothering to put the toilet seat down.
Spokesman John Sewell said that the reason for the itch was that, while the couple still love each other immensely, they get "a little too comfortable in each other's company".
Women stop wearing make-up, take up trakky daks instead of sexy lingerie and men conveniently forget to pick up their dirty socks, laundry and other mess around the house.
Yet a friend of mine has another theory. While she's just made it over her two and a half year hurdle with her man, the key is to get more romantic, trim and sexy than ever before.
"Holding a man's attention definitely takes work," she said. "Yes, to them, sex with another woman is just sex, but if you're capturing their eye enough, they won't even have time to look around."
Another, who's recently reached the whopping seven-year mark in her relationship concurs. He says the key to it all is exercise, alone time and loads of hanky panky.
"There's no such thing as an itch if you take each day at a time. It's when the focus is on getting too comfortable and no longer caring about things, that's when trouble starts to brew."
But aside from the comfort factor, how long does passion last? Can you re-ignite it once it's lost? Or does that spell the kiss of death for the relationship?
What do you think? Is there such a thing as an "itch"? Do you find your relationships always end after a few months or years? And what's the best way to get the spice back into the relationship?
Happy Lovin!
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