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Relationships

Happy Couples are Chunky Couples

If your partner is starting shed a few pounds, you may want to hire a detective, because a new study claims they're probably ready to cheat! A German sociologist says people that are coupled up tend to gain weight together because there is less pressure on them to be attractive. The study says partners that develop a sudden obsession with the gym, diets or sports may be more willing to stray in the relationship. Do you buy this? Could a partner that discovers fitness simply want to get...fit? What about health reasons? What if it's just to impress the spouse?  Can't be -- THEY MUST BE GETTING READY TO CHEAT!  Thank you, science!

10 Ways to Make It 10 Years

These are tips from a blogger at Yourtango.com.

1. Attraction - More than physical, you need to ask yourself if your partner inspires you.
2. Accountability - Do you hold each other accountable?
3. Communication - Do you have similar communication styles? Are you aware of the impact of your verbal and non-verbal communication on your partner?
4. Lifestyle/Interests - Having similar lifestyles and interests will propel your relationship to prosperity.
5. Laughter/Comedy - How often do you laugh with your partner? Does your partner make you laugh? Do you have a shared sense of humor?
6. Permanent Passion - How often are you passionate with your partner? Please know that being passionate does not always mean sexual activity. You can express passion via kissing, caressing, and cuddling, or through your words and writings
7. Dependability/ Security - Can you depend on your partner? Can your partner depend on you? Dependability is a mainstay for long-term connections.
8. Support/ Understanding - Do you make an effort to support and understand your partner on a daily basis? Do they do the same for you?
9. Unconditional love (and like!): Do you feel romantic love without condition for your partner? Do you truly like your partner as a person? Do you like being around them? Do you accept them for who they genuinely are? If you are trying to change someone's core, you are not in the right relationship.
10. Life goals/ Relationship goals: Successful marriages share the same life goals as well as relationship goals. What do you want out of life? What do you want out of a relationship? Does your partner share your sentiments?

Life

When Are We Most Happy?

Folks that own an iPhone app called Mappiness kept track of their happiness levels over the course of a year. What this gives us a pretty good indication about what makes us happy, and what bums us out. Here are the....

Top five things that give us a happiness boost:
1 Making love (+12.9)
2 Sport, exercise (+6.5)
3 Theatre, concert (+6.5)
4 Singing, performing (+5.9)
5 Exhibition, library (+5.6)

Here's what bums us out:
1 Working, studying (-1.9)
2 Travel, commuting (-2.0)
3 Care for adults (-4.0)
4 Waiting, queueing (-4.1)
5 Sick in bed (-19.7)

What's our very happiest day and time of the years Christmas Day at 1:50pm.

What day and time do we feel our lowest? January 31st at 8pm. That's when we realize the party is over. BACK TO WORK!

Money

Weird Excuses For Calling In Sick

29% of us admit to calling in sick when we're not. The main reasons: Spend time with family, get in some last-minute shopping before the holidays, or the weather outside looks to bleak to deal with.

Here are the top 15 strangest excuses as reported by managers to TheWorkBuzz.com

1. Employee’s 12-year-old daughter stole his car and he had no other way to work. Employee didn’t want to report it to the police.
2. Employee said bats got in her hair.
3. Employee said a refrigerator fell on him.
4. Employee was in line at a coffee shop when a truck carrying flour
backed up and dumped the flour into her convertible.
5. Employee said a deer bit him during hunting season.
6. Employee ate too much at a party.
7. Employee fell out of bed and broke his nose.
8. Employee got a cold from a puppy.
9. Employee’s child stuck a mint up his nose and had to go to the ER to remove it.
10. Employee hurt his back chasing a beaver.
11. Employee got his toe caught in a vent cover.
12. Employee had a headache after going to too many garage sales.
13. Employee’s brother-in-law was kidnapped by a drug cartel while in Mexico.
14. Employee drank anti-freeze by mistake and had to go to the hospital.
15. Employee was at a bowling alley and a bucket filled with water (due to a leak) crashed through the ceiling and hit her on the head.

Joke of the Day

At a convention of biological scientists one researcher remarks to another, "Did you know that in our lab we have switched from rats to lawyers for our experiments?"
"Really?" the other replied: "Why did you switch?"
"Well, for three reasons. First we found that lawyers are far more plentiful, second, the lab assistants don't get so attached to them, and thirdly there are some things even a rat won't do."