Patient likes 65 degrees. His wife likes 72 degrees. The thermostat is currently 69 and no one is happy. It has been a decade.
Permanent. The feud will outlive one of them.
Separate blankets. Separate cars. Separate preferences. Never the thermostat.
Patients with Chronic Temperature-Setting Disputes typically present with some or all of the following:
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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