Those personalities surface during one of the most common relationship battles: a fight over temperature control.
YourTango directed me to this Washington Post piece, which describes the wars couples wage over the A/C setting. An excerpt:
Researchers who study sex differences agree that when it comes to temperature, it seems women are from Venus and men are from Planet Freon.
"This is a real phenomenon," said Kathryn Sandberg, director of the Georgetown University Center for the Study of Sex Differences in Health, Aging and Disease. "We have lots of data showing that women generally are far more sensitive to feelings of cold."
Strangely, I fall outside my gender on this one. In relationships, I'm always the one who's burning up. Thanks, Wisconsin!
As insignificant as they sound, battles over temperature can really affect your relationship. Being too hot, or too cold, impacts your mood.
And if you dread your partner's thermostat control -- or affinity for wool blankets -- spending time together gets a lot less appealing.
In relationships, how do you resolve differences in temperature preference?
