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Well, there goes my hope for getting any kind of cooling relief this summer.

Let me rewind back a bit and explain my situation.

So, a few weeks ago I noticed my air conditioning system was starting to have trouble again. This was very frustrating because I had just had a HVAC specialist out a few months ago, who examined it and told me that it worked fine. Granted, it could have looked perfect to him, because this A/C unit has a history of looking fine but breaking down for some reason. I have been wanting to get a new A/C unit for awhile now, a new central air conditioner to be exact, but getting a brand new HVAC installation is just not affordable for me right now. So instead, when my A/C machine finally did break down, I decided that enough money was spent on it, and I was going to go online and buy a window air conditioning system. I had a window A/C growing up, and it always did a fine job of keeping the home cool enough, something was definitely better than nothing. However, when I went on their website, they didn’t have their window air conditioners listed for some reason. Then I remembered the cooling store a few miles away from my home, and I decided to buy a window air conditioner there. But when I arrived, the HVAC store was closed for an unspecified amount of time. Obviously I am not meant to stay cool this summer.

 

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I just broke up with my boyfriend today and it was one of the hardest things I ever did. I feel like the reason we split too was a rather dumb one but it was something that we just couldn’t seem to remedy. I broke up with him over the difference in our temperature preferences. Now before you think that’s crazy let me explain the situation a little bit, my boyfriend and I had never been able to agree on what the temperature in the house should have been when we lived together. In my opinion that was a bad sign in itself, but we tried to work through it together, unfortunately that didn’t work. My boyfriend was very demanding that he had to have that house set exactly to 85 degrees. It was off by even one degree he would absolutely lose his mind, he would get red in the face and start screaming and yelling. He told me I wasn’t allowed to touch the thermostat, the same thermostat that I helped pay for. He tried to take my temperature preferences into consideration by saying that he would get me a window air conditioning system for my bedroom if I thought it was too hot, but he told me straight that he had to have his temperatures his way. It only got worse from here is he became more and more demanding on other things as well and I decided it was best to just cut it off. I didn’t need that kind of from him and I was done putting up with it. It sounds ridiculous on the surface to break up over a difference and temperature preferences, but when you look below the surface you’ll find that there was actually much more to it than that.

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My husband and I have never seen eye to eye when it comes to temperatures.

Has been a recurring problem in our marriage, I want to get a zone controlled HVAC system to take care of this issue once and for all but my husband refuses to because of how expensive they are.

I understand that getting his own control heating and cooling system wouldn’t be cheap, but we are constantly fighting over the temperatures and in my mind the constant fighting isn’t worth it. He could easily keep this house in the high 80s to maybe even low 90s and he’ll be fine. I like to think that I’m more normal because I like room temperatures, not even that picky with what the room temperature is in the house. It’s my husband’s issues with anything that is cooler than 85 degrees. If you ask me it’s crazy, understand being such a hot houses beyond me especially in the summer months. In the summer months here with the heater going it could easily get up to 95 degrees in the house that’s not higher. I’m completely serious that my husband runs the heater, not the air conditioner, in the summer months. It’s unfortunate because apart from the temperature differences we have a lot in common, but we cannot seem to get past these temperature differences. He refuses to buy a zone controlled HVAC system, and just expects me to go and have to deal with this heat. He doesn’t even ask me how I feel about it. I know it’s not a good sign, and I’m wondering if maybe I should leave.

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It is way too cold in this house.

I have recently moved into a place with my boyfriend and while everything had been going good for a while there is one pretty big problem between us, and that is that we have vastly different temperature preferences.

This is a current issue in our relationship that we’ve been trying to work on. We were thinking about getting a zone controlled HVAC system, or maybe I just had a space heater in my room so that I wouldn’t be so cold. But the problem was I didn’t like the idea that he got the entire house to be whatever temperature he wanted, well I had to be confined to one room and use a space here just so I wouldn’t freeze. It just didn’t feel fair to me. If we’re going to be sharing a space It should be 50/50. He absolutely loves cold temperatures, I’m keeping the house at 65 degrees is just a regular occurrence. Personally I think he’s crazy for liking such cold temperatures, well I wouldn’t say like warm temperatures. Anything I was 78 degrees and over is fine with me. Therein lies the problem, I agree, and him keeping the AC so cool all the time is not only making me and the household but it’s also raising the cost of our energy bills. We decided that in order to come to a compromise we would get a zone controlled HVAC system. It seemed like the only fair way that both of us could have what we wanted even if it was expensive.

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