Drama, its what's for dinner

I know that every relationship has its ups and downs. I realize that if you spend enough time with someone you will eventually, occasionally rub each other the wrong way. I don’t care if it’s a man and a woman or a same-sex couple, your best friend, a relative… whoever it is. From time to time you are going butt heads and, in your own way, “throw down.”

Bring it on bitch!

In fact I’ve heard it argued that couples who never fight are doomed to failure because they don’t care enough about the relationship to get mad. Or maybe they are too afraid to express their true feelings to the other person, which isn’t good either.

So, this is all very natural. Then what is my point? The point is that during these episodes of relationship non-bliss, is it really necessary to alert every neighbor in your surrounding area? Now, God knows I’ve had my share of passionate verbal bouts. I am a pretty laid back person, and therefore there are only two people in my life who can actually upset me. One is my mother; the other is my wife. I still say this is because they are the two people I care the most about, so they are the only ones I feel are worth getting upset about.

On the rare occasions I do get riled up, I unleash a pack of spoken daggers wrapped in painful sarcasm. If it goes on long enough, I may even raise my voice to the point that our little dog hides under the bed and tries to find her happy place.

I have not, however, gone outside of my living space calling my partner every foul name I can think of at the top of my lunges. I have never knocked on a neighbor’s door during the heat of the fight, whom I barely know, to profess how my partner has wronged me. I have never taken my partner's clothes and thrown them at (not in) the dumpster outside of my living space. I have never done a dance on the said clothes while they lay in the parking lot. Likewise, I have never called the cops on my partner after she broke the back windshield of my vehicle with a hammer during the argument, only to be told that since her name is also on the vehicle title that she has the right to do anything she wants to it.

I have never done these things my fellow readers, but then again I don’t live in the complex I manage either.