Something that can be hard to accept is this: your way isn't always the only way to handle an issue. Just because you disagree with your SO on the best path, doesn't mean you are right and he is wrong. You could be wrong OR you both could be right.

Tell us a story about a time that you had different ideas about how something should be handled and deferring to his plan led to a perfectly acceptable outcome. This can be recognizing that his way was just flat out better, or simply that either way would have worked equally well.

Mine is this:

We know we'll be moving in the next year or so. With this in mind my husband has been organizing and packing anything and everything we aren't regularly using. He's made many trips to Walmart for plastic bins to store things away and it's taken huge chunks of his spare time on weekends for the last few months. He believes that this will protect the things we have, have all the stuff we don't use organized (so we can unpack at our leisure) and make moving easier.

I think that we'll still have to do quite a bit of packing when it's time to move so I'm not convinced the time spent now (which is done in a slower, more detail oriented fashion) is going to make a difference on the tail end. While I think that some of our things should be put in plastic bins (because the basement needs serious dehumidfying), if we aren't packing yet the basement isn't an issue. I think he's unnecessarily worried about the amount of space a baby will take up, likewise I think he misjudges the amount of time moving will take no matter how much we prepare now. I think that we're putting out extra money on plastic bins when we could just pack later, in much cheaper boxes when it's time to move. We'll also have to do something with a lot of those bins when we unpack later.

Ultimately I recognize that whether we go with my plan or his, we'll be fine when we move. There is no reason that I have to be right and we're not so strapped for cash or time that my objections need to be given serious consideration. He even got to be smug a couple weekends back when the basement flooded and everything down there was protected. I gave it to him. His way worked.