Nitpicking Can Damage Your Relationship

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:18.6	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect
0:24.7	with me 24-7 at Dr.ora.com. I want to talk about nitpicking. And it takes all forms. It's from
0:32.7	just annoying. You think you're funny, but it persists all the way to abusive.
0:44.7	Nitpicking in an extreme is abusive behavior. Mostly it's just stupid.
0:57.5	So it goes from stupid to abusive.
0:59.8	And I'll take you on that road.
1:09.9	I was with a number of friends, and one is a couple dating, and I know them both, very well. And I think ultimately they are a good choice for each other.
1:15.4	I 100%, 100% believe that. Girl people, though, have a tendency to certain behaviors that are just must be in the DNA. I don't know.
1:31.3	One of them, I would call nitpicking. It's supposed to be cute, affectionate, a little pissy.
1:43.8	Anyway, there was
1:45.0	a three-day event
1:47.5	for the male party.
1:50.9	Some of it was fun, some of it was life-threatening,
1:53.9	but everything turned out okay.
1:56.4	Yeah, I heard about it afterwards, and I thought, whoa.
2:00.1	So there are a bunch of guys, they're old buddies since college, even before that.
2:05.7	And so we're all together, and this was, gosh, a month ago that this three days happened.
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