The Top 27 Challenges of Being Married in NYC

Relationships are hard work -- but calling America's biggest metropolis home can make life with your better half even trickier.

In honor of Chris Rock's I THINK I LOVE MY WIFE, we've collected responses from New Yorkers on this painful -- but often amusing -- subject. Their answers to the question, "What makes married life in New York challenging for you?" are below!*

27. "Two people sharing a New York City apartment bathroom."

26. "Two people sharing a New York City closet."

25. "Moving in together inevitably cuts your (already tiny) living space in half -- and it often doubles your subway commute."

24. "It's much harder carrying groceries home for two people as opposed to one (especially since you can't put them in the trunk of a car).

23. "Laundry: what was once an annoying weekly trip becomes a NEVER-ending cycle of trips to the laundromat."

22. "Good childcare costs more than a two-income household can provide."

21. "EVERYTHING looks sooo good -- and you can't have most of it."

20. "Two words: 'studio apartment.'"

19. "Having to hang your wedding photo with the sticky stuff because your landlord said 'no holes in the walls.'"

18. "Taking on your wife's last name."

17. "Your husband keeps going out to Fire Island with his 'friends' for the weekend and insist he's not going to the 'gay part.'"

16. "I challenge any marriage to survive moving in (or out) of a fifth floor walk-up."

15. "Lots of really smart 'other' people who wear great clothes and have interesting jobs."

14. "LOTS of people with more money than you."

13. "New York encourages you to be out late and on the town all the time -- there's so much going on! Spouses encourage neither of those things."

12. "Real estate is so tiny that a typical Manhattan one-bedroom will drive a couple at each other's throats within 5.3 days of moving in together."

11. "While New York's murder rate is among the lowest of major American cities, enough people get whacked there to make the idea not seem so far-fetched when Dear Hubby gets on your nerves."

10. "Your building's creepy super-intendant keeps giving free (stolen) DVD players to your wife."

9. "As the most densely populated city in North America you're sure to bump against some hottie who's NOT your spouse."

8. "With a population of 18.7 million people there are approximately 35,744 other equally lovely versions of "the one" out there for you. (But we're sure you found the best of them.)"

7. Your wife has an untreated addiction to credit cards and there's a Manolo Blahnik boutique right around the corner. Even worse: you live in SoHo."

6. "Half-dressed elderly neighbors who don't close their curtains constantly remind you what your spouse will become."

5. "New York embodies romance: snow-dusted streets in Greenwich Village, watching the sun set on the Hudson, skyscraper-level views, walks through Central Park as the leaves turn... Face it, an affair is BECKONING."

4. "New York's so big you don't have to worry about running into a one-night stand again."

3. "Your wife keeps saying 'Well, Lars says...,' referring to her hunky trainer (the one with the 2.5 percent body fat) at the neighborhood gym.

2. "Trying to rekindle the romance while rats are humping on the windowsill."

1. "Due to the headache of NYC apartment-hunting -- having to continue living together long after the divorce."

* Special thanks to Searchlight's (happily married) current and former New York employees and my friend Mike Mullen (who, although single, proved to be a fountain of information).