The days are getting colder but inside our homes the temperature is rising as the annual thermostat battles hot up.

A survey last year found that 53% of couples argue over the heating and that while eight in 10 women admitted to secretly turning up the thermostat, men were most likely to want a cooler house and to start a row over energy bills.

‘Stealth-adjusting’

There’s simply “no such thing as a couple who wants their house the same temperature”, said Zoe Williams in The Guardian . Instead, couples spend the colder months “stealth-adjusting the temperature until it gets stealth-adjusted back”.

The “beauty” of this scenario is “how many other conversations about compromise, lifestyle, mortality, domestic load and everything else” are “mediated through this very slow-burn conversa

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