Micro Fights Married Couples Know Too Well

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“To be married is to fight in Home Depot every Saturday” is what one of my friends texted me recently. She was responding to my text, in which I was telling her about the fight I was having with my husband in Home Depot. I caught us being such a stereotype. I was angrily following my partner, who was walking away from me, boards of wood over his shoulder, as I said through gritted teeth, “I am not micro managing you I just happen to have valuable input!” I’m sure anyone who heard that thought they were caught on some hidden camera prank show. We were just a TV sketch waiting to happen. But most married couples probably do know that you just have these micro fights that come and go every day. They irritate you a lot, but not enough to ruin the day over. You never fully come to a conclusion – you never reach a solution – as to how you’ll avoid having the same fights in the future. You just know you’ll have them again and again. Here are micro fights every married couple has.

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Don’t put me on speakerphone

You know when your partner comes up to you, while you’re minding your business, and puts a speakerphone call in your face, with someone he knows you don’t want to/don’t have time to talk to right now? Then you are forced to stop what you’re doing to get on that call to be polite? Mhm. That’ll start a fight when the call is over.