headphones keep breaking after only a few weeks of usage?

I go through a pair about once a month, sometimes I get lucky and they last longer, sometimes they break faster. With me it's always a wire messing up, and just 1 of them stops working. It's almost worse than both of them not working. Drives me crazy but I think it's because I drop my ipod a lot and catch it by the headphones, which I think is disconnecting the wire from the actual ear bud part. And I pull it out of my pocket by the wire a lot too... anyways it's probobly my fault but I feel your pain, the same thing always happens to me.