THINGS COUPLES SHOULD NEVER ARGUE ABOUT

(August, 2016) From Cosmopolitan magazine:
No couple wants to get into a fight over something stupid. Here are eight fights that are not worth having:
1. Whether or not one of you told the other something. Does your partner claim they asked you to take out the trash? Maybe they say you never told them a good movie was on. It doesn’t matter. Either you forgot you were told, or you forgot to do the telling. Just let this die before it devolves into an argument over which one of you has the better memory.
2. Anything that involves friends or family who haven’t acted unreasonably. Avoid arguments just because you dislike your partner’s best friend or mom or something. Unless you’ve got a real reason to back it up, they’re just going to take it personally.
3. Being different people with different needs and wants. Opposites attract. Maybe you’re an introvert who’d rather be at home with a book or a show to binge-watch. Your partner would rather go out. You can compromise. The most important thing to remember is that you’re not literally attached to each other. You can compromise and do things together. Who knows, you might even learn to like new things. But your personalities are never going to change – unavoidable truths about each other need accepting, not constant nitpicking.
4. Not wanting to go somewhere. This is not the end of the world. If you’ve got an office party your partner would rather not attend, or if you don’t want to tag along to drinks with his college buddies … just don’t. It’s that easy. It might not be what you both want, but it doesn’t need to turn into a “thing.” If they never want to go anywhere you want? Fine, but the occasional desire for staying in is nothing to fight about.
5. Hypothetical scenarios. Don’t ask if your partner would sleep with your best friend if you had been dead for 10 years because you’ll never like the answer. It’s also not a fair question to ask. Same goes for things like fighting over baby names when you aren’t even trying to have a baby.
6. Hobbies or interests, no matter how dumb you find them. No matter how convincing the argument, you may never understand why people like things like dubstep, or football. You don’t have to. If it makes them happy, or if you love it, then it isn’t worth making fun of. Let people have their hobbies.
7. Things that happened before you even met each other. If the past ever comes up, just say something like, “Blah, blah, blah, these are the things that shape us and make us who we are and brought us together.”
8. What you want to do or watch or eat. If you’re one of those couples, set up a roulette wheel and spin it whenever a decision comes up that you can’t handle. If you’re both indecisive, you need this.
* “What you want to do or watch or eat.” So, everything in life, then?
* After reading the list, the one fight you will have is over how passive-aggressive the other person is.
* Just reading this list I’m pissed off.
* How about a list of fights that ARE worth having?
* Look, if you’re taking marital advice from Cosmopolitan it may already be over.
* I’m confused. I thought every issue of Cosmopolitan was about “Hot Sex Moves That Will Drive Him Wild.”
* It also helps to suspend your dignity and any sense of logic.
* For example if they say you don’t listen, don’t quote them from before they changed their mind. That won’t help.
* “These are the things that shape us and make us who we are.” “They shaped you? You mean that’s what made you so fat?”