When people talk about all of the incompatibilities that are extremely important to determine before you marry somebody, I don’t think they’ve ever mentioned indoor air temperature preferences before.
I know, it’s very common for people to recommend that you make sure you have the same plans for building a family and the bank account.
You don’t want to wind up with somebody who refuses to have children or insists on spending all of your hard-earned cash if you have a different plan in mind. That makes a lot of sense to me. However, nobody ever told me that heating and cooling devices could also bring about the end of your marriage. I found out the hard way when my husband and I refused to live together until after the big wedding day. As soon as we started moving our things into the same home, it became apparent that we had very different opinions when it came to indoor air quality. During the day, he was always burning hot and I was always freezing cold. I wanted to run the furnace and he wanted to run the air conditioning unit during the same period of time. It got even more complicated at night because I enjoy the air conditioning system running at full blast. Meanwhile, he preferred to have the windows open or to have a space heater blowing directly on his face for a restful night of sleep. We began struggling to sleep in the same bed and at some point we even tried operating the heater and an air conditioner in the same room to overcome our air temperature preference differences. In the end, it was just too uncomfortable and expensive to deal with our inherent air quality mismatch. We got divorced last year. It was less expensive than the energy bills were.