Voday after dinner, Saskia Vogel, 36, talked to her husband about how many milliliters of water fit in a glass. He said: “600 milliliters.” She said: “Who is so stupid and fills the glass so full that you can no longer carry it?” One word led to the other, and they quickly became involved in a terrible argument. “I get very aggressive in cases like this,” Vogel admits, “and then my husband always says: ‘You really manage to ruin our Saturday every week.’ This is a real construction site in our relationship.”
Even with Jens Meister and his wife Katja, disputes are often sparked off by trivialities. Recently she casually mentioned to him that she would ask her butcher how long it would take to grill which type of meat on her newly purchased gas grill. “My husband totally freaked out after that,” says Katja Meister. “He accused me that the idea was stupid because I could google it anywhere.” When she replied that that was true, but she could also ask the butcher, he really freaked out and was disgusted by her supposedly feeble-minded proposal made a face.