“Your breath stinks”

One of the easiest ways for Jared and Audrey to instantly disarm each other in a fight was to tell the other that their breath stank.

When Jared would be in Audrey's face, yelling and screaming at her in anger, she would calmly say, “Your breath stinks...” as if not even listening to what he had said.

It would absolutely enrage him to no end. To him, the pointing out of the bad breath was just as bad as if she had been the one to cause it. It would completely derail the whole argument and fight.

Jared's go-to move from that point would be to just fully breathe hot breath in her face, something that would annoy her right back.

In their world of fighting, pointing out bad breath was indeed a risky move: it was sure to incite more anger and a breath in the face, but it was a decent technique to make the person lose track of the earlier argument.

Like most of their fighting tactics, it was very often Jared doing the attacking and Audrey passively playing defense.   ❐

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