Domestic Relations

If a couple gets into a substantive argument, say over the couple's finances, and one of the two makes a giant stink and flat out refuses to attend an event the couple had previously agreed to attend over the weekend as retribution for the argument, but then the weekend comes around and that one of the two just goes ahead and shows up to the event anyway... isn't that person then weakened for the next argument? Doesn't such a thing then alter the dynamics of the relationship, even if temporarily?

The person in the relationship who didn't make the threat would subconsciously know they won. And they would be right.

Congrats, Barack.

Go kick some butt.