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The example I gave with my wife was a superficial hypothetical scenario to illustrate my point. She usually doesn't actually push back on it, she has been married to me long enough now to understand my neuro idiosyncracies.
I'm ASD and ADHD, so I've been told that decision fatigue is a common symptom. But I also know neuro typical people in my field who experience the exact same issue.
There's a lot of factors that go into it, and everyone will have a different experience. There are some people who make an average of zero decisions in their normal day. There are some who are required to make hundreds of decisions per day. There are some people in highly stressful jobs who need to make very important decisions. Some people have naturally higher capacity for decisions than others.