Wife is Anti-Air Conditioning?? ?

Question

Ok, Help. I've been married for 3 years approx. My wife is Mexican (and really hot) and I lived in Southern Mexico with her for years. Where she is from the weather is really pretty nice, so they don't use A/C or Heat anywhere because it's not necessary most of the time.

But I'm from Colorado and well, I like it COLD!!! My ideal sleeping environment is having the room nice n' cool but with lots of blankets. She won't use A/C only in Extreme circumstances. I can usually deal with it but at bedtime it can cause us some real problems and sometimes we end up sleeping separately.. mostly because of this issue.

In the past she has let me put a fan on only me to where it doesn't blow on her, but this isn't very frequent. Where she is from they treat the 'cold' as though it were some kind of monster that will eat you in the night. What would be the best way to deal with this in the long term!?!

Answer 1

my husband is always hot and i'm always cold. so at night, he turns on the AC and puts a fan at the foot of the bed in front of him, and i just use blankets and cuddle up. but i like having the weight of the blankets on top of me, anyways, so it's not a big deal. and in the car, if he got too hot, he'd turn the air conditioning on, and i'd just close my vents. plus, i keep a sweatshirt in the car for cold buildings and such, and i could always just throw that on when it got too cold. for a while, we even kept a blanket in the car for when the sweatshirt didn't cut it. just some tips of what we do!

Answer 2

air conditioning is not good for health, so this is in your interests to cancel all air conditioning. the research has been done - people working in offices with airconditioning get sick twice more often then those who work without.  

Answer 3

Crank the AC and buy your wifey an electric blanket

Answer 4

Your not alone in this, my wife does not care to have the a/c on either.  I get hot very easy, so when it comes time to sleep i've gotta have the a/c on, preferably set at about 65 degrees.  Knowing very well that it is impossible for you to get a good nights sleep if you are too warm, i can only see two solutions.

First one is sleep in separate rooms and each keep the temp to their liking.

Second one, which the wife and i do, give her a ton of blankets and turn the a/c up.  You sleep on top of the covers she can sleep underneath them.

Answer 5

Put on the AC and keep her warm with your body heat!!

Answer 6

You put the a/c on in the bedroom only and buy her a heating blanket.  Then you can still sleep together.

Answer 7

Compromize each each other and come up with some great idea or else sleep seperate

Answer 8

lmao..monster in the night. I have some friends from Mexico and yeah..they hate the cold but oddly enough you'll catch them standing in the doorway just marveling at how pretty the snow is when winter arrives..and having snowball fights. :-)

Anyway..I don't think I can offer any good advice here, one of you is gonna have to give in, either she has to let you have a fan or the A/C or you're gonna have to go without to please her. lol..sleeping in separate rooms probably isn't what you want, right? Maybe you can get her adapted to slightly cooler temps..I'm guessing not though.