Stubbornness

Is it a fine attribute or is it a shortcoming? Does it show your strength or your weakness? Whatever it is and however you see it, I have always been extremely stubborn and I really doubt it is ever going to change.
On rare occasions, I am having a heated argument with someone (usually it’s with a close relative, otherwise I don’t really bother. I, then expose my case in front of friends and relatives who, of course always agree with me because they only hear my side of the story… And if they don’t, I get upset with them) and I suddenly come to the realisation that I may be wrong but I just stick to my guns and fight like a lioness to win the argument. I need to emphasise that, I know the other person is right but I simply cannot let them win. If the other person never mentions that fight again, neither will I but if they do and they point out I made a mistake, I have the tendency to respond:” It is NOT what I said? You totally misunderstood me!” And, here you go, I win again. Yes I am a bit of a sore loser.
On other occasions, I would agree with the general idea but I would find finer details for the sake of contradicting you: for example, “I think the word you used is inappropriate here”, “why are you talking in the past tense?”. I am not the only person in my family who does that and I am pretty convinced that I inherited this trait from my beloved father. He and I can drive my mother crazy when we argue and when we notice she’s about to explode, it turns into a screaming competition just to annoy her. My father can really drive me insane at times, especially when he insists I am wrong about not liking something. If I don’t like cheese, you may think “How bizarre is she? She’s French but Ashe doesn’t like cheese!”  but how can I be making a mistake. I don’t like cheese, I don’t like cheese, that is all there is to it.

This leads to passionate exchanges in the middle of Spotlight about… Curtains!?
It looks like my eldest boy has inherited that trait from me. Boy!
To conclude, if I start arguing with you, smile and walk away!