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[quote=Anonymous]OP, my DH is like this, though not sure to the same level of your husband. I handle it by agreeing with everything. It takes two to fight. So I remove myself when I see it going down an argumentative path. His ego eventually noticed and then he wanted to be the first one to beat me to making peace.

I also took other approaches:

- Pointing out that he is probably right, I am wrong, I am not seeing the big picture, etc. etc. Eventually he kind of got the picture, realized how self-aborbed he was, and he checked himself a bit more.

- I once had a conversation with him and told him that I don't think he likes me or cares about my opinion since he always seems so..competitive.  I didn't show anger, just sadness at not being able to satisfy him. Pull a Scarlett O'Hara on him with a sexy pout and tell him that you want to know how you can stop all the conflict and disagreement. See if that helps, his ego will win and he want to save you. Make sure you look cute when you are doing it.

- I found it helped to allow my DH opportunities to argue about SOMETHING because PP was right it is in their nature. For me, discussions about things we could both argue about helped. Example: asking his opinion about Ray Rice, any controversy, etc. and then letting him argue a point, asking a bunch of questions and letting him get it out
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