Is this grounds for divorce?

My Husband has done worse and lived to tell the tale. I don't think Divorce would be an option in this case.

I couldn't live with a man who insisted on a cold house. Fortunately DH would never dare turn the heating down.

I'm peri menopause - although I've always been warmer than my husband, due to being a hardy northerner rather than a soft southerner (as I call my beloved). We get around the issue by me sitting around in a thin t-shirt in the middle of winter and him wearing a t-shirt, sweatshirt, and a thick cardigan on top. Marital harmony is maintained by this and a moderate level of heating

I'm the one who turns the heating down in our house!

Thank you all for engaging on this thread.

For the avoidance of doubt - as Laura said, this thread was started as light hearted banter. I am not an ill treated or oppressed wife.

Lol, I now believe the male species comes pre programmed to be obsessive about thermostat control with the heating, and commandeering the tv remote controls.

One of the reasons I divorced mine was for persistently buying me chocolates that I hate and he knew full well that I'd rather have had nothing!

The day I served the papers I threw 4 years' worth of birthday, mother's day, easter and xmas chocolates at him!

Thank you kittylester. You have given me one blessing to count. Mr T irritates me in many ways but that’s not one of them. A cold dinner and a bag of ice cubes put in his side of the bed tonight could sort the problem.

My DH tends to turn down the heating saying "It's hot", to which I retort (like a broken record) "No, it's not hot, you're hot" ... all a question of semantics.

I need good heating. Once we have the winter all day programme off and go over to morning and evening I use my personal small fan fire with thermostat which I set in rooms where I am sitting alone and the temperature is below my comfort. It then only comes on if the temperature falls below my comfort level. I have to be careful to turn it off if I leave the room as I do not want to make the mistake of it running in my office all night. I do however as a first measure put on a One Size Beach Bath Microfiber Surf Poncho Robe Hooded, a Wetsuit Changing Towel. I paid for one that was long and in a pattern. It is much admired and goes over anything.

He would find that Hive gadget
@£;/-)&@?!’$#|^’ shine !

DH and I never argue about the heating, instead he simply turns it down when he passes the control in the hallway, and I simply turn it up when I pass the control in the hallway. Neither of us says a word!

NellG

Yes. I suggest spilling your coffee, accidentally, all over the Hive unit as a swifter solution than divorce. It at least might buy you some time!

My heating thermostat is remote device working on wifi I think. Its far to complicated for my OH so if I'm hot I turn it down and if its cold I turn it up. If he is cold then he puts on a jumper etc. So selfish of me I know :-) HaHaHaHa

I can never understand why some women allow themselves to be treated like disenfranchised children.

It’s no longer the 19th century and husbands/OHs are not entitled to decide whether you are warm enough or use the tumble dryer too much. If it’s a question of economy, then it needs a joint financial decision not a decree.
This kind of control is surely unacceptable in the 21st century?

My solicitor told me that not putting your socks in the wash bin can be deemed to be unreasonable behaviour and therefore reason for divorce. Your DH committed a capital crime but you can't have him executed so you'll have to go down the divorce route.

This is a really good reason not to have a smart phone and apps that can turn your heating , oven etc ,up or down, on or off.

Right now I am fighting the opposite battle, trying to get DH to realise that our heating bills are too high not because we have had more heat in the house, but because the radiators that he says are working fine, are according to the municipal heating plant malfunctioning and he won't do a d*** thing about it, and I can't.

I put more clothes on, but hubby turns it up in our house. Must admit we both do things that irritate each other. I've just got into trouble for mowing front lawn as I'm shielding and he thinks it's to risky, he never mows the lawn.

LauraNorder ?
No martyr here either. Of course it's just meant to be banter. ?

Mine moans about the heating bills, but he's the one who ALWAYSVleaves the doors open when he goes outside!!

brazenp75, I’m pretty sure this thread is about a bit of banter and fun between happily cohabiting equal partners. No need to worry. No martyrs here.

It's easy to apparently put up with this thoughtlessness and thus turn yourself into a martyr - not a good idea as it festers and is a kind of passive aggression.

Bbbface, if it was in the coldest room in the house, it would boost the heating, without him realising. He never feels the cold. Chronic ill health means I feel the cold badly. It used to be a battle, I would turn it up,he would turn it down.

Definitely grounds for divorce. On the other hand, I’m the thermostat turner downer in our house .....

Definitely grounds for divorce I'd say. Good luck with the patio.....................