I take pride in never having been in a relationship where we were the problem couple at any gathering or night out. I witnessed it happen too many times with friends who would get drunk or have passive aggressively disagreeable moments in front of everyone and it would devolve from there. Then you're left uncomfortably continuing the evening or having to reign people in or talk people down.

It's the fucking worst. Glad I was never that guy and glad that none of my exes were ever those kinds of women. Can confidently the same thing about my current partner. I would never tolerate this even for a second. If I was ever in a scenario where a partner decided to start a fight with me right then and there in front of everyone, I would be done.

**The one stipulation to that is you also have to not be a belligerent idiot yourself who antagonizes your partner or otherwise does things that in some way upsets them in front of everyone. At some point people will break, and they won't just brush things off to discuss later.