Why do you suppose our society has conditioned us to believe that people must exist in partnership. Partnerships where one individual is continually forced to put up with the obnoxious behaviour of another human being. To assist them in their search for ?? happiness? satisfaction? is futile, simply because they prefer to be unhappy or one wouldnt need to assist them to find what they dont want to begin with. Obnoxiousness should be considered an official form of abuse. It is certainly annoying. But then the bottom line is, we all have choices to make and we must deal with the consequences of those choices. Perhaps time will come when a new direction must be chosen, it is unfortunate that often the choices of one individual will have an affect on many.