One way to break such a stalemate is to increase your empathy to the point you become the psychiatrist and the other party the patient. Here he could debase H

One way to break such a stalemate is to increase your empathy to the point you become the psychiatrist and the other party the patient. Here he could debase Her argument as being a manifestation of an obsessive compulsive disorder. If she agrees to that "diagnosis" just a little, he might be able to move to a kill by proposing that the socks remain on the floor as a form of therapy that will help Her treat her overwhelmingly obsessive behavior.