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Chronic Temperature-Setting Disputes

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CHRONIC
Diagnosis
Chronic Temperature-Setting Disputes
Thermostatus conjugalis bellum
Clinical description

Patient likes 65 degrees. His wife likes 72 degrees. The thermostat is currently 69 and no one is happy. It has been a decade.

Prognosis

Permanent. The feud will outlive one of them.

Recommended treatment

Separate blankets. Separate cars. Separate preferences. Never the thermostat.

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Common symptoms

Patients with Chronic Temperature-Setting Disputes typically present with some or all of the following:

What is this?

Patients diagnosed with Chronic Temperature-Setting Disputes present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.

The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Thermostatus conjugalis bellum, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.

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