A practical compromise should be clear enough to recognize next week.

Agreements made in a warm moment often depend on tone rather than detail, and tone does not survive. A week later two people remember two different arrangements, both honestly, and the disagreement restarts with the added weight of feeling let down. Vagueness at the point of agreement is not generosity; it postpones the argument and makes it worse.

Before you leave the next conversation, say the arrangement out loud in concrete terms: who does what, by when, and what happens if it slips. Put it somewhere you can both see it.