6 Fights You Have With Your Significant Other When You’re Extremely Straightforward

Advice from a relationship expert who hasn’t been in a relationship in about 7 years.

Say, what?!!!

1. Money. Turns out it doesn’t matter how well you communicate with one another, or even what kind of relationship you’re in. Hell, I argue with myself about money on a daily basis.
2. Schedule. I am going to assume, with your self-declared straightforwardness, that you are in a relationship with someone who has their own stuff going on in life, much like you do. You share a lot of things, but you also have your own interests — I hope. That said, you’re going to have scheduling conflicts sometimes. Hell, I even have scheduling conflicts with myself on a daily basis.
3. Family. Family is tricky. No matter what kind of family you have, you have forced relationships with people that your partner may have very strong feelings about. This has little-nothing to do with you, but it will be a problem at some point. Hell, I even have debates with myself about my family on a daily basis.
4. Social Media. There’s no getting around it. Social media is a part of our lives whether we like it or not. But, everyone has a different relationship with social media and inevitably it will come up somehow because one of your will do something that will make the other upset — regardless of how well you speak to one another. There are unspoken rules and boundaries that we each have with our social media accounts, and there’s no way that our partners will know all of those limits. Hell, I even fight myself about what I want to post where and under which account on a daily basis.
5. Intimacy. Even the most perfectly paired couple, leading different enough lives will face challenges in the bedroom at some point. You can communicate the hell out of your needs, wants and desires, but at the end of the day, someone will come home horny for the other’s loving when all the other wants to do is sleep and forget about the world. It’s just what life does. Hell, I even have to battle my vibrator on a daily basis.
6. Politics. In all of my thirty something years on this planet, I’ve never found a single person who I agree with one hundred percent when it comes to politics — not even my father or mother, who most people know are perfect. I mean, not only am I straightforward, but I’m open-minded. So, hell, even I have disputes with my own political ideologies on a daily basis.

PS — please send batteries and new vibrators (yes, plural).