Let’s talk about arguments. I don’t like them so I don’t do them. The Viking is pretty much the same. So we have these moments where something has happened and we freeze. Neither one of us wants to confront the other so we sort of stand there looking at anything but each other. We both have a role in this moment and we both completely understand who is at fault and who is the innocent party.
Without making eye contact we both kind of wander slowly away, both of us hoping the phone will ring or someone will knock on the door. The rest of the day becomes awkward because I should probably apologize or The Viking should, but making that apology would mean revisiting the thing that happened and neither of us wants that. Eventually, someone will call or visit to distract us and we can go back to being not awkward again.
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