Why do my charger cables keep giving out after like three months?

I've had my phone a year and I've gotten the cord replaced like three times. It's always the part by the part that plugs into my phone that gets all twisted and such and then they cord gets glitchy and then it stops working. Is this happening to anyone else or am I just not careful enough with my cords or something?

You are not alone. My wife has had her iPhone 5 for jsut a year now and I have had to go to the Apple store to get 5 or 6 cables replaced for her. I've had my iPhone 5 for about 15 months (3 months longer than her) and I am still using my original cable. The cable does not hold up to hard bending right where the cable extis the connector. I don't bend my there and I have no problems. I see my wife laying in bed with the cable pressing against her chest bending the cable 90 degrees right out of the connector. Not surprising to me, I have had to treplace that cable 3 times in the last year...

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