005 {listening to other people fight}

[laceandlight]

The couple that lives below me are arguing again.

Most people would be angry. Or annoyed. But I'm just soaking it all in. Because today I'm learning how other people interact. And that's good, always good for a writer.

Apparently Andrea is reluctant to have sex with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend believes that this is because he is fat. Andrea says, "

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[damnshesfeisty]

Hearing people fight makes me anxious and stressed. I guess I just don't trust adults not to take it too far... Throwing an entire plate of food against the wall. Somebody physically threatening someone else. Someone getting slapped. Someone getting a knife or a gun.

But I'm also nosey as fuck. So I listen from a distance.

I read a piece recently about saying "I love you" in the middle of a fight. Just to take it down a notch. I kind of loved it. I might get more mad if someone did that to me, depending on the fight. I could see myself coming back with something really mature like, "If you did love me, you wouldn't x."

Andres and I were fighting loudly in his condo once; his upstairs neighbor came down and told us to quiet down. That was our last huge fight. It was over two years ago. We don't fight much, but we argue a couple times a month. The arguments never last more than half an hour. Usually I'm wrong.