This was a good thread (most of it). My posts still stand, 5 years and thousands of miles later. Monello and I rarely have conflict because neither of us enjoys it. Even on stressful moving days we don't take it out on each other.
One of my favorite things about Monello is that I can ask him nicely to do/not do something....and that's it. I rarely have to ask him twice, and never have to get pissed because I've asked him numerous times and he's agreed but was really ignoring me. It's important to us to make each other happy, especially since what's being asked is typically small and effortless.
Monello likes his t-shirts folded a certain way, so I do it. I've had a couple of fellow laundry-doers ask me why I fold his shirts that way, and the answer is because that's what he wants and it takes me an extra 5 minutes every week or so to make him happy. He (or we) makes up the bed every morning because I like a made bed and it doesn't take him much effort to do it. There's no, "Grrr....I don't want to do this thing...grrrr..." or bitching about it or acting like you're some saint because you do it once. We do it all the time because it's a small thing that makes the other person happy.
That is a lot bigger deal than some people might think.