When a marriage starts to go south, you tend to have ridiculous arguments. I was thinking back to the days with my ex. While we often had major blowups about huge issues, we were also experts at fighting over the most ridiculous things.
Argument 1: I want you to use the COLD cycle and bleach my underwear!
Generally, people only use bleach on their whites and in the hot cycle. NOT on a pile of dark underwear. I tried to explain this to the ex, but instead he wanted his dark underwear washed with bleach on the cold cycle. When I told him fine, I’d do it, he called me a bitch.
Argument 2: Leave the papers on the couch!
We had a sectional couch, and the ex decided to use it as a paper organizer... in addition to the dining room table. So basically there was nowhere to sit and eat, and eventually nowhere to sit at all! When I’d finally had it and started cleaning off the papers, he screamed at me for messing up his system. When I told him there was nowhere to sit, he told me he’d go out and buy another chair later. Um, how about just clearing off some of the papers?
Argument 3: Get rid of your plant!
Anyone who knows me knows I am the least materialistic person out there. I have one material item I will not part with, and that’s my plant. I bought it when my son was two, and it’s grown to over seven feet tall. I love my plant! My ex would constantly ask me to get rid of it. This was the guy with thousands of CDs and DVDs, hundreds of shirts, about 50 pairs of shoes, several computers, numerous gaming systems, etc. No way was I getting rid of my plant.
Argument 4: There’s nothing wrong with the TV being on at top-volume at 4 a.m. on a weeknight!
How could this even be an argument, you ask? The ex had poker night at our house every Tuesday. It would usually wrap up at around 2 a.m. Often, ex would still be up at 4 a.m. In order to “wind down,” he would go into the living room and blast movies on the TV at top volume, even though there was a perfectly good TV in the family room... downstairs... away from the sleeping people.