Relationships are about compromise.
Me & our wife have a lot of things in common, which enriches our relationship & helps us relate to each other really well.
However, as with any couple, there are a few things that we differ on. She’s a dog woman & I am a animal person; we’ve yet to get a pet because of this. I love gritty war & action movies & documentaries, & she likes sappy rom-coms & drama & reality TV. It takes a lot of effort & searching for us to sit down & watch something that we can both like together. However, for all the ways that we are different from each other, there is one way that I truthfully wish we were not different. My wife gets frosty way too easily, & I run really hot. Thus, we constantly war over the control unit. I don’t believe it’s healthy to want your spouse to leave the beach house for as long as possible just so that you can be comfortable with the temperature, but I find myself wishing that often, & I am cheerful when she decides to go out almost absolutely because of this! I mean, it’s also because I am an introvert & I absolutely prefer our alone time, but I also get to be perfectly comfortable during our alone time! When I hear her car hit the driveway I groan & roll our eyep, get up, & provide her as moderate a greeting as I can when she walks in. But, it does not moderate her up at all, & she instantly notices that I turned down the control component & demands that it be returned to the temperature she prefers!