Don’t You Roll Those Eyes At Me!

Yesterday my local radio station asked a question along the lines of, “What is it that a partner does while their spouse is talking that is the best indicator of impending divorce?” I guessed it was yawning. Wrong! The answer was roll their eyes. It got me thinking that if you just keep your eyes fixed, you can avoid a divorce, but itn reality, that’s not the case at all.

If you think about it as a medical affliction, using that logic, divorce is the symptom of eye-roling. The truth is, divorce and eye-rolling are both the symptom of a much bigger affliction. See, there’s an issue in the relationship, and if you are an eye-roller, you have gotten to the point where whatever your partner says is ridiculous and you don’t respect their words. Rolling your eyes is an early symptom of this affliction. Where divorce is a later stage of the malady.

Here’s a list of additional symptoms from the website, EveryoneGetsDivorced.com (http://everyonegetsdivorced.com/2012/...

Twirl pointer finger in a circle at temple, i.e., make international ‘cuckoo’ sign
Cover your ears and hum/loudly speak gibberish
Answer pretend “phone call” and proceed to have a long conversation with what sounds like a lover while really only holding your own hand to your ear
Tie an imaginary noose
Pantomime vomiting

So, if you want to avoid divorce, you need to do more than refrain from rolling your eyes. Here’s the skinny; if you feel the need to roll your eyes, that’s a sign that your affliction could lead to divorce. It’s not the eye-rolling that’s the problem. Remember, that’s only a symptom. So, figure out what it is that makes you want to answer an imaginary phone or make the cuckoo sign and start to work on it, before your affliction becomes too severe to treat.