• Flying Squid
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    120 hours ago

    Arguments don’t have to be angry, neither do competitions. Why is arguing and competing with each other unhealthy if it is friendly?

    Two married Olympians both competed in women’s volleyball for different countries this year. Obviously they have a competitive marriage. It apparently is working for them.

    • @qarbone
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      117 hours ago

      I’ve never said a single word about competitions in relationships.

      • Flying Squid
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        117 hours ago

        Correct. I did:

        Some people’s relationships are literally built around arguments and competition and they last decades.

        Then you said in reply:

        If you have and this is still your answer, then whatever that’ll be your opinion and I’ll have mine. Some people smoke multiple packs a day and live to 80 but that doesn’t make smoking a healthy thing to do either.

        So no, you didn’t. You just suggested that what I said was equivalent to smoking multiple packs a day.

        • @qarbone
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          116 hours ago

          Sorry, I didn’t sanitize my output, assuming this would forestalled by the redirect to my other comment explaining I see how I was applying my implicit biases and connotations to what “argument” means.

          I didn’t call out the addition of competitions then because I didn’t think this would sprawl as long as it did. I will do so now:

          I never said a word about competitions and that, in my mind, has no inherent bearing on the healthiness of a relationship as there can be different types of competition. So we can immediately excise that from further discussion.

          Addressing the sole part that is relevant now: I now agree arguments aren’t necessarily angry, by everyone’s definition. But that was the tone and definition with which I made the original comments up until that first reply to chicken.

          You can see that segment as a revision of my first reply to you. Have a good whatever.