When I told my grandpa that I was planning on getting married he offered me a massive piece of advice.
He told me that I should always choose my battles in my relationship.
Do not bother trying to fight over every single thing or you are going to make each other miserable. I understand what he was saying when he offered me this piece of advice. I try my best to follow it all the time… Including when my heating, cooling, and air quality control devices are in question. You see, when my wife and I moved in together we rapidly realized that we have polar opposite opinions about indoor air temperature control. She loves to operate the heater at all times because she is chronically cold. I like to live with natural ventilation and leverage as much fresh air climate control as possible. As such, we find ourselves in a bit of a pickle when it comes to our thermostat programming. Of course, we both want the other person to be comfortable… But we also need to take care of our own temperature control needs. This is why we wind up bickering a lot as we tried to compromise over the thermostat setting on a daily basis. For a while we tried to compromise by taking turns with the thermostat and our own temperature control preferences. However, it turns out, it is energetically and financially expensive to be modifying your indoor air temperature control settings so often. It got to the point that we were regularly bickering over the stupid heating, cooling, and air quality control system. On the verge of going into couples counseling, I decided that this was a battle I should lose. I let my wife take over the thermostat and never looked back.