The older I get, the more I realize that my past ideas about relationships were completely messed up.
When I was growing up I absolutely had no idea how human interactions were supposed to work in a healthy fashion.
I only saw unhealthy relationships as I was making my way through childhood. As a result, I wound up in a lot of social associations that were unevenly balanced and negatively skewed. Unfortunately, one of those relationships included an unfair ultimatum that I provided to my boyfriend. He was always rather flippant with our indoor air quality when we were living together. The thermostat never seems to concern him in the least. When we had a nice cold today outside he was happy living without any indoor heat. When it was swelteringly hot and humid, he didn’t really care if the air conditioner was working or not. On top of that, he never thought it was worthwhile to pay for Professional heating, cooling, and ventilation services for the failing forced air furnace and air conditioning unit. If we ever did he use the indoor air handling devices we had to suffer from high energy bills and dirty indoor air, anyways. The house always felt dirty and unclean when our breathing air was passing through the unmanaged central heating and cooling system. I tried many times to motivate him to budget for a professional heating, cooling, and air quality control appointment. However, he refused to help me scrape together the funds for a routine air quality control maintenance service. Eventually, the indoor air quality became such a problem that I gave him a brutal ultimatum – fix the HVAC system or lose our relationship. I was single the next week.