Why is it that society has recently become so offended and intolerant about everything?

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Let’s say you and your spouse are arguing. One of you says something really mean, the other feels really hurt, then you feel bad for saying that, then the other feels bad for driving you to do that. You make up and move on with your relationship.

What didn’t get addressed here? The original reason for the argument. It could have been something as simple as you leaving the toilet seat up. In fact, a lot didn’t get addressed here. It’s not just that you shouldn’t leave the toilet seat up, it’s also about respect. You need to respect that out of four different toilet use possibilities, three of them involve putting the seat down and that the only reason you don’t is because you think your convenience is more important than hers.

Oh but you don’t think that way! You start arguing, and she argues back, and before you know it the fact that you didn’t humor Aunt Agatha appropriately at her last brunch gets brought up, until, again, one of you says something super mean and you remember why you love each other.

It keeps getting lost in the heat of the argument, but the fact of the matter is, one of you is right, and the other is wrong, and the person that is wrong is the person that set the other person off. If you want to stop having arguments, then the person that did that needs to stop doing that. At some point, a disagreement became emotional, and that’s the start of the argument. Don’t let it get emotional.

That’s what all this is. It’s the argument that results from the wrong person not conceding the point. It’s the other person pointing out all the other things you ever did in your entire relationship that sets them off. If you don’t stop arguing and start listening, then your relationship is eventually going to progress from arguments to real hatred, and then you’re going to have a nasty break up.