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I'm not sure your preference for running the gas tank down to empty before refilling it is more logical than her preference to keep it topped off. It sounds li
by xsmasher 9y ago
I'm not sure your preference for running the gas tank down to empty before refilling it is more logical than her preference to keep it topped off.
It sounds like you each have your preferences, and the tension comes from one (or both?) of you assume that your emotional preference is somehow objectively or factually correct.
Maybe if you indulge her on the pantry situation to assist in her happiness, she can indulge some preference of yours that's particularly important to you?
- logfromblammo 9y agoIt's not even a matter of running it down to empty. It's actually using some fraction of the capacity of the tank built into the vehicle instead of always using a 50gal bypass tank that takes up all the trunk space. And I never specified whether either of us were male or female. (On the Internet, no one knows if you're a dog.) I'm not going to say whether you assumed correctly with your choice of pronoun. In our household, my spouse overfills the pantry regardless of my preference. I don't get worked up over it, or keep score. It's just something that happens, and isn't important enough to turn into a point of contention. Each issue exists independently, so it would be unfair argumentation to drag that one into a separate issue to try to score points and "win" instead of addressing the issue itself. So we have a pantry that is difficult to walk through without turning sideways. I don't worry about it. It's a first world problem. My spouse knows I don't like it, and that's all that needs to be done from my end.