• Longpork3@lemmy.nz
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    4 days ago

    Luckily my wife has now acknowledged that my inner nerd/engineer will immediately jump to solutions and will preface the conversation with “i just need to vent” in those situations.

      • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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        4 days ago

        The one person you can change is yourself.* Why not try vent before solutions?

        *(Kinda. You’re trying to change your wife and here I am encouraging you to try a new way.)