We live in troubled times. We’re fighting wars everywhere, Wall Street has been occupied, people are still adding -gate to the end of scandal names even though it doesn’t make any sense. And to make matters worse, we’re becoming increasingly incapable of not acting like complete assfaces toward our spouses and partners after we get home from work. How in heaven’s gentle name will we address this growing concern?
The Wall Street Journal reports on an increasingly common phenomenon that threatens to destroy the very fabric of marriage. Stress and and negativity levels on social media sites builds all day until it has whipped us into a collective froth by late afternoon. Hard working couples return from work frazzled and out of sorts, ready to take all of the day’s stress out on each other, and since we’re often tied to our offices via technology we can never escape, we’re increasingly in need of a period of time during which we mentally separate ourselves from what goes on at work. Some experts refer to this period of after work crankiness as “The Witching Hour” or “stress spillover,” but you probably know it as that hour or so when all you want to do is take a giant dump in peace and then maybe watch two episodes of The Simpsons on your local Fox affiliate in silence.