making up after a home makeover

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I managed to smooth things over with my wife today, after some argument over painting and floor covering for the living room in our home today. We managed to work things out but I had no idea that the following was true about conflict over home improvements between spouses sometimes leads to divorce. You tell me that 50 % of marriages end in divorce over home makeovers? That is a terrible statistic. I mean, a married couple usually works out their differences but when it comes to renovating the family home, and conflict incurs due to different color and decor preferences and costs, it takes a good strong marriage to insure against ending up in divorce court, rather than 40 love at the tennis courts. So, we did argue over what colors and what type of flooring and such. it's perfectly natural for me to argue over these things as my wife and I did some painting these last 5 days of a living room, dining room and hallway. There were a few moments when I argued and raised my voice, but it was the voice of frustration, not anger, but it all sounds the same and for that reason I need to learn how to chill with my wife, when we do home improvements together and try to get along, for the sake of our marriage and not end up being a statistic just to prove those statisticians right.