There’s a lot of things that people don’t tell you when you are getting into a long-term partnership.
Everyone paints this picture of marital bliss, where are you complete each other as whole individuals plus cannot manage to live without one another.
In my experience, this hasn’t been the case. In all of my long-term relationships, neither person has been completed by the other! Rather, living together is a slow plus contentious battle to slowly change each person. This is most apparent when you inspect my current relationship plus our ongoing wars over the thermostat. My hubby plus I have been together for over 10 years now. In that amount of time, my friend and I have never figured out how to compromise over the indoor air temperature control. Neither one of us has been able to budge a single degree in our personal air temperature preference. In fact, my friend and I have gotten into such large fights over the energy bill plus thermostat settings that I have spent weeks living with my mother before. Our inability to reach a compromise over the heating plus cooling system eventually brought us to a breaking point. My good friend and I could either find a new Heating plus A/C solution, or my friend and I needed to break up plus find a more fulfilling relationship. Luckily, that is when our Heating plus A/C professional steppedin with zone controlled heating plus cooling. He told us that rather than abusing our central Heating plus A/C system or each other, my friend and I should install distinct zones which were independently controlled by separate thermostats. That way, no one has to compromise. My good friend and I can have the most comfortable indoor air temperatures in every room, without seeking divorce counseling. This guy has improved our relationship more than our couples therapist.