Wendy and I have been together for over twenty three years, and she is my best friend and spouse, and I just can’t imagine a life separate from her.
However, all that may be true, but now that she has hit menopause Wendy is going through some changes! I am doing my best to help her, however there is only so much I can do.
She has exhausting mood swings now, through no fault of her own. Wendy has never experienced this before, plus some mornings I feel as though I’m married to a weird person. Her internal thermostat is also broken, because she gets freezing spells plus tepid flashes in equal measure. This has translated to her abusing the smart thermostat for the house as she tries to make herself more comfortable. This is strenuous for me personally, although I think it’s running the heating and air conditioning system ragged. She will go from being freezing and switching on the heater, to sweltering and switching the A/C back on fifteen minutes later. It would be one thing to keep the air conditioner going, or even turning it on and off, but I assume switching swiftly between heating and cooling will have damaging effects to the HVAC equipment. Next week I have a heating and air conditioning 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 space heating system and A/C equipment to carry around the home with her.