Computers causing stressful relationships
Time spent hunkering over a display and tapping away at a keyboard or a screen could be hurting your relationship, a new study suggests.
According to the survey comissioned by Crucial.com, about 41 per cent of U.S. adults in a relationship say using a computer causes stress in their relationships. And it's not just the stereotypical geeky men causing the stress - the survey says women are at fault too.
Between the sexes, it's women who are more often than not stressed out by their computers during a six-month period before the study took place.
In case you were wondering, Crucial.com sells RAM for computers. So it's intruiging that they would kinda infer that part of their products are to blame.
Dr. John Gray, author of relationship help book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" says: "We're living in a world where most people spend more time with a computer on a daily basis than they do with their spouse or significant other."
So what would be more stressful - a slow computer or a fight with a spouse/signficiant other? The computer, apparently.
Slow programs, crashes and other mishaps are generally more aggrevating than a verbal disagreement, it seems.
Let's be honest though - would a slow computer cause stress in your relationship? Would you upgrade your comptuer to have a better relationship?
- Maurice Cacho, MSN Tech & Gaadgets
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Posted by: Troy | Feb 12, 2013 9:11:25 AM
Speeding up the computer usually doesn't get people off of them faster. They just tend to do more in the same amount of time. And it STILL won't fix relationships because:
A) Men usually just 'lose track of time'. You're on the computer for 'only' 15 minutes, when an hour has gone past in real time. An hour that your SO has been tapping her foot, wondering, "Where is he, and why isn't he doing what I want him to do?"
B) The amount of time a woman spends on a computer, even if she's ignoring other things, is completely irrelevant. Because, to them, "It's alright." Which makes it so! ;)
Posted by: ScoobyDoo | Feb 12, 2013 9:22:23 AM
It never talks back. It never says no. It doesn't need to be romanced. It's not messy and stinky. It's the perfect partner.
Posted by: Mrs. Bailey | Feb 12, 2013 11:29:59 AM
No Computer Can Replace My Awesome Husband! Having an argument with him does not equate to computer stress. If my computer is stressing me out, I simply leave it alone. That's the beauty of working for yourself and working from home. I pick and choose the things I want to be concerned about. You can too, check out my site and find out how. mymcapro.com/mrsbailey
Posted by: Greg | Feb 12, 2013 2:06:06 PM
Guys spend more time at computers because their wives are mean, chronically in bad moods, cant be pleased, are never happy with anything, and the biggest reason is that they never want sexual intimacy.
So of course guys are going to do things on the computer than be with their wives, because the computer doesnt make them feel like crap and provides hours of entertainment. Plus if the wife is a total disaster, then at least you can meet someone new and better online.
If wives started sucking and banging more, guys would ignore the damn computer and tv.
Posted by: jus' sayin o__O | Feb 12, 2013 2:51:17 PM
AHMEN!
Posted by: jus' sayin o__O | Feb 12, 2013 2:52:28 PM
to GREG
Posted by: jus' sayin o__O | Feb 12, 2013 2:56:54 PM
had to make a fake name to catch my wife F'n around
stupid BIATCH
Posted by: Rube2sda | Feb 12, 2013 8:34:57 PM
Hey, jus' sayin, if your wife is such a "stupid biatch", why don't you grow a pair and get divorced? Nobody made you get married...what'd you do, knock her up?