How Wrong Can You Be?

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Karlon

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Lynx said:
No this is not a political diatribe or theological rant. "You believe THAT?! How wrong can you be?"

This is a serious question. When do you want your spouse to correct you and when do you want to be left alone to be wrong? How wrong can you be before you want to be corrected?

Everybody hates to be corrected all the time about little things. The termagant, nit-picky spouse is a trope we all dread finding out we have married. "Look I don't CARE if the dinner fork goes on the left or right. I just want to eat!" But it's a real danger, because it makes some people feel good when they correct others. Proving someone is wrong can bolster a person's ego by proving "See? I was right!" so some people start doing it a lot.

On the other hand a loving spouse will correct you if you are wrong because your spouse wants you to be more right. And sometimes people get upset about NOT being corrected. "You let me make a fool out of myself, going on and on about that topic at the party. Why didn't you tell me I was wrong? Now everyone we know thinks I'm an idiot!"

So where is the line for you? How wrong can you be before you want your spouse to correct you?


Due credit: This thread was inspired by this comic:
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2024/09/01
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i want my wife to correct me on anything but if it's in public, take me aside & correct me. on the other page, she doesn't like being corrected at all. she loses nearly all of our conversations. truthfully, we don't deal with any of those scenarios. ask any person my age, 64, up until the early 80's people who were being corrected listened much better & for the right reason which is to hear the correction & learn from it.
 
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