Are you wondering why bad personal hygiene in marriage should have a negative impact in your relationship?
Marriage is a very complex relationship.
There are many intricate threads woven around it. Many of you ignore certain aspects as not that important to your relationship.
But, it does show its negative impact in some stage of your married life.
Do you think love, care and financial security is enough to make your married life happy?
The answer is a no.
It is true that without love, your relationship has nothing in it to be called worthwhile.
You might have tons of love, but without money, your relationship totters towards instability.
These are the very foundation of your marriage. But your relationship needs some more intricate qualities to make it appealing to you.
Feeling smug that your married life is all fine because you are loving and financially well off makes you ignorant about its most neglected aspect.
Are you wondering what it is?
It is your personal hygiene.
Yes!
One of the major building block of your relationship is your personal hygiene in marriage.
Yes.
Your personal hygiene and cleanliness has a telling role in your relationship.
Certain aspects of your married life has more of an aesthetic angle to it. And so, it is very visual and very appealing.
What are they?
- A clean house
- Neat and tidy children
- Well-groomed look both you and your spouse sport.
You smile at the list, don’t you?
You never feel these aspects in any way contribute to the well-being of your married life.
You are wrong.
Shall I prove my point?
Let us suppose your home is cluttered with things. And everything is in disarray. There is also grime and filth all around you.
How will you feel?
Your nerves creep in tension and confused frustration, doesn’t it?
Here is another example.
Do you like watching a movie in a seedy theatre?
Or, do you like to watch it in a theatre with a clean ambience?
You invariably choose the latter, don’t you?
The story of the movie is the same, whether you watch it in a low-class theatre, or a high quality theatre.
Why do you seek a classy theatre?
It is because the good elements in the movie catches your attention only when the ambience around you is clean. Otherwise your mind registers only the filth around you. You do not enjoy the movie, however well taken it might be.
Yes.
Personal cleanliness plays a subtle but definite role in your married life.
What does personal cleanliness really mean?
- Your personal hygiene
- Your habits and behavior.
- The way your dress.
Everything of the above mentioned qualities combined together form the crux of personal cleanliness.
Many psychologists say that lack of personal hygiene in marriage sometimes wrecks your relationship.
But most of you never really attributed good marriage with good personal hygiene, isn’t it?
Before marriage, both are concentrated on your looks and the way both behaved towards each other.
But after marriage, personal hygiene is thrown to the winds. Before marrying your spouse you are enamored by the outer appearance of him\her. But after marriage you find your spouse not so appealing.
Why?
All because he\she does not have good personal hygiene.
Your wife feels you are not clean enough.
Here are her complaints!
My husband does not change his socks. And the stench emanating from him is unbelievable.
He smells of cigarette.
My husband does not brush his teeth.
Your husband has a list of complaints too.
My wife smells like a live kitchen.
Her hair smells of decayed oil.
She has sweaty and foul-smelling underarms.
She has hairy legs and hands.
Can you see how both never like it when there is no clean habits?
This is the reason personal hygiene in marriage has a definite impact in your relationship.
Do you maintain good hygiene?
Do you keep your body smelling good by having bath twice a day?
Excellent!
Your spouse likes you for this.
Most of you do not understand the importance of smelling good when you are intimate with your spouse. The clean smell you emanate makes your spouse feel more attracted towards you.
Let us suppose you smell of sweat and grime when you are intimate your spouse.
Your spouse might not say how much he\she dislikes it in words. But, inwardly he\she grimaces in revulsion. He\she gradually loses his\her sexual attraction towards you.
Most of you have habits which revolts your spouse inwardly.
Check out whether you have these habits in your day-to-day life.
You scratch yourself vigorously before your spouse.
You pick your nose before him\her.
Your hair is unkempt and grimy.
You are unshaven.
You smell of filth and grime.
You are sweaty.
You wear dirty and shrunken clothes.
Most of you are guilty of these not-so- appealing habits.
You feel there is nothing wrong in it, don’t you?
You are after all family, aren’t you?
But strangely, relationship does not work like that. Of course, lack of personal hygiene in marriage does not lead to divorce. But, it does lead of contempt and revulsion in the mind of your spouse.
You wouldn’t want that, would you?
How to maintain good personal hygiene in marriage?
Is it a very difficult thing, considering the hectic lifestyle you lead?
No.
Not at all.
It is just a habit you can easily cultivate.
You should definitely follow it if you want to enjoy all the aspects of a good marriage.
Be well-groomed.
Have bath twice a day.
Don’t dig your nose right in front of your spouse. Do it in privacy.
Don’t sport hairy legs and hands.
Keep your hair neat and healthy.
Watch out for bad breath.
Never ever wear dirty clothes.
Bad body odor makes your sex life uninteresting and boring.
Conclusion about personal hygiene in marriage
Good married life has many innumerable qualities embedded into it.
Most of you think that love, money and adaptability and many more highly discussed topics are important for a happy relationship.
No!
Lots of neglected and often overlooked qualities add up to the happiness of your marriage.
Concentrate on your personal cleanliness and hygiene. You will be amazed how much it adds satisfaction to your marital happiness.
Yes.
Often, the most overlooked aspects in marriage relationship invariably becomes great stimulus for a stable married life.
Naomi says
Very informative
Mathi says
Naomi,
Thank you.