Ever have that conversation with your significant other?

“What do you want to eat?”

“I don't care. What do you want?”

“I don't know. What sounds good?”

“Anything.”

“Okay, how about pizza?”

“I don't want pizza.”

At that point, some Michigan couples are apparently ready to file for food divorce.

Food divorce means couples stop trying to coordinate every meal. Instead, each person eats whatever they want, whenever they want, without the nightly negotiations over what's for dinner.

Honestly, Michigan couples have plenty of experience with this.

One person wants coneys. The other wants Olive Burger. One wants a Coney Island, while the other is already halfway to Meijer buying chicken and complaining that nobody ever helps decide what's for dinner.

And don't even get us started on “Where do you want to go?”

That question has ended more Friday nights than a snowstorm.

A relationship therapist says the idea behind food divorce is to remove meals from the list of daily negotiations that can create stress and resentment.

And younger generations seem to be moving away from the traditional family dinner schedule. A recent study found that about 1 in 4 Americans eat every meal alone.

But there's a catch.

Couples who regularly eat together tend to report higher relationship satisfaction. So if you're going to divorce dinner, experts say you probably need to replace that shared meal with some other way of connecting.

Maybe that's sitting together on the couch.

Maybe it's going for a walk.

Or maybe, in Michigan, it's sitting around the kitchen table complaining about the weather while somebody checks the snowblower forecast.

Because sometimes the problem isn't dinner.

It's the 17-minute argument about where to get dinner.

So, would you try a food divorce?

Or is eating together one of those things you're not willing to give up?

And most importantly...

If you and your significant other can't agree on dinner, who gets custody of the leftover ranch?