Wendy and I have been together for over 15 years, and she is my best pal and spouse, and I can’t imagine life without her.
All that may be true, but now that she has hit menopause Wendy is going through some fluctuations and I am doing my best to help her, but there is only so much I can do.
She has bad mood swings now, through no fault of her own, and Wendy has never experienced this before. Some afternoons I feel as though I’m married to a weird person, and her internal temperature control is also broken, because she gets cold spells and tepid flashes in equal measure. This has translated to her abusing the actual temperature control for the house as she tries to make herself more comfortable. This is hard for me personally, and I feel as though it’s running the heating and A/C program ragged. She will go from being chilly cold and switching on the heater, to sweltering hot and switching the air conditioning system back on 17 minutes later. It would be one thing to keep the air conditioning going, or even turning it on and off, but I know that switching hastily between heating and cooling will have damaging effects to the equipment. Next week I have a heating and A/C inspection booked so I can get an expert opinion on the state of our system and how to make it run better. If she is taking too big a toll on our equipment, it may be easier to get Wendy a portable electric furnace and A/C component to carry around the condo with her.