COVER STORY: Kris Humphries Begs Kim Kardashian — Don't Leave Me

By:OK! Staff

Oct. 26 2011, Published 6:00 a.m. ET

Kris Humphries ducked out of NYC’s The Darby first — ahead of his wife, Kim Kardashian — not looking at anyone. “I noticed Kris didn’t hold Kim’s hand, which seemed strange to me,” an observer at Kim’s 31st birthday dinner on Oct. 21 tells OK!. His expression was troubled, perhaps because of the pressure Kim is putting on Kris, 26, to improve his behavior and his attitude.

“I used to clean up all of his stuff, but now I am like, ‘Okay, you have got to get it together. You really have to pick up after yourself now,’ ” Kim confessed to OK! at Las Vegas’ Marquee nightclub the following night. “That’s been a challenge. He likes to be a little lazy, though he wasn’t as lazy before.”

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When Kris and Kim were still dating, his sarcastic sense of humor also made her giggle, but it became no laughing matter once he started picking on her family, especially sisters Kourtney and Khloe.

“Kris has a mean streak,” a confidante says. “He can be cruel, a jerk; he doesn’t get that what he does has consequences and that people can have their feelings hurt. He says whatever comes to his mind.”

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Friends are concerned that the couple’s union might not stand the test of time. “Kris is so different than the Kardashians,” says one family friend. “I don’t know what will happen. Kim may eventually realize that she rushed too soon into this marriage.”

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