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According to a survey by a leading online poker site, results showed that 63% of player partners moaned at every little blip in their daily routines. Potentially providing one good reason why so many people resort to playing poker online. It gives them privacy and relaxation away from a moaning partner, an escape route. But does your partner also moan while you play poker online?

Finding fault at every little thing drives people crazy. Nothing gets people down more quickly than someone in the same proximity moaning at them. Moaning does rub off people and can be transferred from one person to the next. How many of us have felt exhausted and depressed after speaking to someone who has just spent the last hour moaning about their lives or partners or some recent experience?

According to one recent survey, UK residents spend 4 whole days a year moaning. They either complain about a partners poor domestic skills, bad financial planning, or habits that they had not realised when first getting together with their partner.

Men do their fair share of moaning as much as women, but largely over how much time women spend getting ready. This can sometimes be in jest, but this too is likely to cause much angst amongst the partner. Men often berate their partners for nagging but it is often men who do as much nagging.

Women are more likely to be vocal but men can whinge silently or make misery noises which can often be as effective and annoying.

However, Psychologists believe a good moan can be good for a relationship as it helps get the little niggles off your chest and out into the open.

So if you are spending more and more time playing online poker in order to escape from the daily moaning and groaning of your partner, why not offer some of these tips to help your partner deal with their issues and in doing so, help improve your time spent player poker.

Try to train your partner's mind from going down the moaning road. By creating a code word that sums up how they feel or are behaving when moaning, tell them to use it whenever they have the impulse to nag or moan and it could stop them in their tracks.

Ask them to count to 10 before they moan. If they pause for a while they can put things into perspective. This prevents them from moaning on impulse. Once they consider the actuality of the situation they may not really need to moan.

Ask them not to get get snappy with you. Sit down and ask them to explain exactly what it is they are not happy about. Often when men are asked to help their partners more, they become more responsive and helpful themselves.

When they are feeling moany, try asking them to stand at the bottom of the stairs and for every step up that they take, think of something that is getting them down. Then for every step down they take think of something that makes them happy and positive or something good that happened that day. By the time they finish they will realise that there are a lot more good things happening than bad and they will have a lot less to moan about.

These tips are also useful for those players who are disrupted online by a moaning partner, perhaps for them spending too much playing poker online. Unfortunately there is no cure for the partner who does not agree with online poker gambling. However, you can always share your winnings, for sure they will be prevented from moaning, if only temporarily.

Written by Morgan Collins for VIP Poker Club. A poker games site online for UK players. Links must be retained in reproduction of this article.