Stories can be told about anything and everything, the story today is about soap, not just any soap but dish soap.
Yes we all know what we use it for in our daily life but that its actually going to be centre of a conflict is maybe not so common?
I was talking to my mother some years ago when i think she asked me about my money situation. I told her that it was scars but that i managed. Then she told me about when she lived in another flat at the beginning of hers and my stepfathers marriage, and how she had to pawn bottles to afford to buy dish soap.
There were many things that annoyed me with that conversation(like with all conversations i have had with my mother). First of all it was because every time i complain about something my mother always tells me a story from her own life that has similarities to mine, she can`t stand to not be in the middle.
The next is that when she told it she talked as if i wasn`t there, as if i was a colleague or a friend who was just listening to a story.
With those two reasons you can see that she wasn`t really recognizing the situation she was in, she was very distant, and nothing like a mother.
So sometimes a talk about something as trivial as a soup can prove major problems in a relationship.