When I met my wife I knew immediately that I wanted to marry her.
This was very strange for me, because I didn’t think that I wanted to marry anybody.
I honestly thought that I was going to live my life as a happy Bachelor, free from any concern with any romantic relationship or lifelong partner. Instead, I wound up getting married when I was 22 years old. Given, I was way too young to get hitched. However, I quickly found out that there were many things I did not understand about adult relationships. Namely, compromise is extremely important. Just became obvious as soon as we tried to establish a central heating, cooling, and ventilation system program together. You see, as soon as we moved in together we were excited to make a very comfortable house, all the way down to our indoor air temperature and air quality. We stood in front of the thermostat together and began trying to program the daily temperature equipment settings into the digital air quality control system. This is when we first started bickering about our diverse opinions on indoor air temperature preferences. Apparently, we reside on different ends of the temperature spectrum when it comes to ideal air quality. My wife was willing to compromise by a few degrees, but I was unwilling to change my temperature opinion at all. This HVAC conflict went on for the next six months, as my wife insisted that we talked about compromising on the heating and cooling units. Eventually, it got so bad that she gave me an ultimatum – we agree on the heating and cooling settings, or she leaves. Obviously, I finally gave in on the thermostat issue and we’ve been married for 30 years.