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Controlling for being angry at DH using oven

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SharpOliveHam · 30/07/2024 13:32

Dh likes to eat healthily which means he never fries any food. Even the 1 cal spray is not acceptable. Fine.

But DH knows I’m very funny about the heat. Hate it and do very well to keep a cool house. I’m the person who goes around closing curtains, opening windows at the optimal time to keep things cool.

Just got off a work call to a sauna downstairs. DH has made himself a fry up (chicken sausages, egg, mushrooms, tomatoes). The kitchen is reading 26c - it was 22.5c when I looked at around 12 pm.

I told dh that this was really selfish behaviour. And now I’ve been called controlling.

AIBU?

OP posts:
Cherrysoup · 30/07/2024 14:23

YABU and you know it. It was a lot cooler at 10 when I took the dog to a completely in the shade walk along the river than at 12. I’ve kept the curtains closed in most rooms so it’s reasonable for the other dog on cage rest. Why on earth shouldn’t your Dh eat whatever he likes?

BorisJohnsonsWigGlue · 30/07/2024 14:23

You're controlling and probably abusive if this is true.

Go outside and touch some grass.

Lilacapples · 30/07/2024 14:23

Omg I’ve read some stuff on here but this takes the biscuit 😂😂

GingerPirate · 30/07/2024 14:23

Yes, you are.
I have a problem with heat, my significantly older husband has problem with cold.
It might be uncomfortable for a while, but we both do our best to accommodate the needs of the other, after 20 years.

MonsteraMama · 30/07/2024 14:23

SharpOliveHam · 30/07/2024 14:18

I’m annoyed because the house is now warmer than it needed to be for the rest of the day. Yesterday it hit 29c here. I managed to keep the house below 23c.

All because one person fancied a fry up.

The whole house? From having the oven on for what, half an hour?

Do you live in a metal box?

TerfTalking · 30/07/2024 14:22

Maybe it wasn’t the oven. If you have more than one hot dog in the kitchen then maybe their body heat and panting has caused it to rise.

That and your heated rant at DH 😄

Fluffyunicorn1 · 30/07/2024 14:22

If I said all of this to my husband he would think I had lost my mind!

What the hell on Earth.

Leave the man alone.

Oh and I have a cocker spaniel so no matter what I do to keep the house cool, she has no chill. The dogs will be fine

Bluebirdover · 30/07/2024 14:22

@SharpOliveHam the clue to what a fry up is, is on the name "fry"

You're crazy and totally unreasonable.

Branster · 30/07/2024 14:21

Leave the bloody dogs in peace OP! They are perfectly capable of finding cool spots in the house/garden and these wouldn't not necessarily be the places you think are the coolest.
Leave the cool mats within easy access and they'll use them if they want to. Make sure they have fresh water and they'll drink it if they want to. 26C in the house is hardly tropical.
And give the dogs free access to the garden in case they prefer a particular shady spot outside,
They are dogs, they can sort themselves out if you provide the above and give them peace and quiet.
Your DH should be free to cook and eat whenever and however he wants in his own home.
Get some dans, an AC unit, whatever you need to feel better but leave these other poor souls to get on with it however they want to.

Catza · 30/07/2024 14:21

SharpOliveHam · 30/07/2024 13:40

We have an extra wide range and the kitchen is sweltering now.

But your dogs have other rooms in the house to use. Anyway, mine's been sleeping in full sun for the last 3 days and absolutely refuses to go to the house where it's cooler.
I am with your husband, I'm afraid.

ModernHijabi · 30/07/2024 14:21

Controlling and a drama queen 😅. Wow....

Nc4dis · 30/07/2024 14:21

The fuck did I just read?

Why does your obsession with a cold house trump his right to cook lunch?

In many countries (as a PP said) 26 degrees is a totally normal room temperature, in fact in Eastern Europe that is a standard indoor temperature in winter, and the dogs don’t drop dead.

If I told my husband he couldn’t use the oven he would rightly tell me to fuck off, what a joke!

BernardsarenotalwaysSaints · 30/07/2024 14:21

Yes, you're being unreasonable & controlling.

Your dogs will be fine, they'll find somewhere they feel comfortable to plonk themselves. I've owned large to giant double coated dogs for many years, DH his whole life, they don't spontaneously combust in hot weather.

Houses get hot in hot weather, it's just the way it is & it won't last for long.

VerySadCase · 30/07/2024 14:21

SharpOliveHam · 30/07/2024 14:18

I’m annoyed because the house is now warmer than it needed to be for the rest of the day. Yesterday it hit 29c here. I managed to keep the house below 23c.

All because one person fancied a fry up.

So you fancied a slightly cooler house and he fancied a fry up.

You sound quite obsessive about the temperature control in your house. Is this some kind of OCD symptom or similar, because your reaction seems incredibly OTT.

IdLikeToBeAFraser · 30/07/2024 14:21

SharpOliveHam · 30/07/2024 14:18

I’m annoyed because the house is now warmer than it needed to be for the rest of the day. Yesterday it hit 29c here. I managed to keep the house below 23c.

All because one person fancied a fry up.

I think it's quite interesting that we're 5 pages in, with you being unanimously told that you are unreasonable, and yet you still have not spent even one second reflecting?

So either you absolutely are controlling and I'd be wondering what else you're controlling about.

OR

This is the tip of the iceberg in respect of him being selfish/inconsiderate/you feeling like you do it all so that even if this one is YOU being unfair, you can't see that due to all the rest of your resentment.

WallaceinAnderland · 30/07/2024 14:21

OP it's hot. Have a cold shower and put some ice in your drink.

YABU and controlling.

SlashBeef · 30/07/2024 14:20

tinkertailorsoldierpie · 30/07/2024 14:17

OP has stopped responding, so we can only assume she has melted.

Or burst into flames.

alwaysmovingforwards · 30/07/2024 14:20

Controlling? You sound bonkers 😂

SharpOliveHam · 30/07/2024 14:20

Bluebirdover · 30/07/2024 14:19

U thought it wasn't a fry up? I thought he used the oven?

Here is a 🥇 for your valiant efforts!

Fry up is a full English to me. Regardless of cooking method

OP posts:
Mostlyoblivious · 30/07/2024 14:20

Sounds like he’s getting an air fryer for Christmas…

BitOutOfPractice · 30/07/2024 14:20

SharpOliveHam · 30/07/2024 14:02

The kitchen is now 26c according to hive. I checked at around 12 pm and it was nowhere near that.

I just went and touched range and it is scolding to the touch still. The kitchen was lovely and cool for the dogs and now it is the hottest room in the house.

Erm that’s because it’s getting hotter outside you narna!

You’re being ridiculous OP. I think you need one of those annoyingly vague MN hobbies.

TheFormidableMrsC · 30/07/2024 14:20

SharpOliveHam · 30/07/2024 14:18

I’m annoyed because the house is now warmer than it needed to be for the rest of the day. Yesterday it hit 29c here. I managed to keep the house below 23c.

All because one person fancied a fry up.

What part of "it's his house too and he can eat what he bloody well likes" isn't getting through to you? You are being ridiculously controlling and you'll end up divorced.

tinkertailorsoldierpie · 30/07/2024 14:20

SharpOliveHam · 30/07/2024 14:18

I’m annoyed because the house is now warmer than it needed to be for the rest of the day. Yesterday it hit 29c here. I managed to keep the house below 23c.

All because one person fancied a fry up.

Google 'adult cooling vest' and save yourself the mental stress, and your poor partner being constricted on what he can/can't do during half of the year.

Bluebirdover · 30/07/2024 14:19

SharpOliveHam · 30/07/2024 14:18

I’m annoyed because the house is now warmer than it needed to be for the rest of the day. Yesterday it hit 29c here. I managed to keep the house below 23c.

All because one person fancied a fry up.

U thought it wasn't a fry up? I thought he used the oven?

Here is a 🥇 for your valiant efforts!

tribalmango · 30/07/2024 14:19

I'm a bit confused about the non-frying, fry up husband, but I'll put that aside.

My teenage son just cooked mince, rice and peas on the hob. Our house stays quite cool with the doors and windows shut --unlike my garden office which gets a bit steamy past 3pm). Gonna go and check the temp......

I don't get too wound up about the temp in the kitchen (we need to go about our lives), but do like to keep the bedroom cooler.