Tit-for-tat arguments seem to come with the territory of having a relationship.
It’s the little things that really seem to matter when you’re with someone.
I have many small arguments with my wife, and it almost becomes a game sometimes as to who will mention something first. Take the thermostat, for example. We generally agree on the temperature range that we prefer in the house. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. I would actually prefer to have it a few degrees lower than the compromise that we’ve settled on. Or, at least, I thought we were compromising on it. For a while now, we have set the thermostat to 75 degrees whenever we occupy the house. During the day, before I leave for work, I set the thermostat to 78 degrees. Yet, when I’m in the house, I definitely prefer it to be at least 75 degrees or cooler. Lately, however, she has been setting the thermostat to 76 degrees. Every time I see it I will set it back to 75 degrees. This has been going on for about a week now. Every time I turn around the thermostat is set to 76 degrees, so I simply change it back to 75 degrees. It’s pretty obvious that we both know full well what we’re doing and if we don’t mention it at all. I’m not sure who’s going to mention it first. At this point, I can actually tell exactly when the temperature shifts, but my wife is pretty sneaky about when she’s standing by the thermostat changing it.