
Picture the scene: date night. You’re excited to spend some time with your love, really talk, you know, be irresistible to one another, when it occurs to you. Mid-way through a highly detailed story you’re animatedly telling, a vacant expression appears across their face. One that will irk even the most reasonable individual. Which screams…boredom. “Did you listen to what I just said?!”
Look — snapping occasionally at, disagreeing with, your significant other is pretty standard. Though often people try to curb this behaviour in public. Much more so than they would behind closed doors. Why? Likely fear of embarrassment. The same reason why some people may feel funny at making out furiously in a crowded place — for fear of making other people uncomfortable.