Depends on how you are doing it I suppose. If you take it off and put it on with both hands on the cups then while you pull it wider than your head and ears you are max stressing the joint/hinges where they connect to the cups. If you grab the headband above the cups and hangers then you won’t stress the joint/hinges at all, you’d be stressing the headband itself instead. That’s how I took my SteelSeries arctic pro wireless for years because of the know breaking issuez