I'm sure this will seem really trivial to some but it has actually upset me quite a bit. My OH is usually very reasonable, really understanding, etc etc and just a great guy... which is what makes me post here today because in our relationship, it is usually me being unreasonable!
So, ever since I was a child my mum has observed that the central heating has an effect on me. Specifically, when left on overnight or put on whilst I'm still asleep in the morning. If she did ever have to put it on, she would have to put cups of water on top of the radiator to stop my room from drying out too much. If she didn't, I would wake up with streaming eyes, a blocked nose, a sore throat, hoarse voice etc and it would take several hours for the symptoms to disappear.
This wasn't really much of an issue when I moved in with my partner because we were a bit skint and our house is naturally very warm, so we haven't really had the heating on much. I have mentioned it in passing before, to which he has replied that I'm bonkers and the heating can't possibly do that. A few times last winter, he would turn the heating on overnight and turn it off just before I woke up, to 'test me' IMO, but he says not. Every single time I woke up feeling ill and asked if the heating had been on. Eventually we had a big argument over it, he seemed to see sense, and stopped doing it (why leave the heating on overnight anyway?!). This was made easier by the fact that he no longer has to get up early for work, so isn't getting cold in the mornings.
Anyway, today, I wake up feeling really rotten, sweaty, ill, can barely speak etc. I go and check if the heating is on and it is. I called OH and said, really friendly and calmly, 'babe can we please not leaving the heating on? I feel like crap' for him to say 'it isn't the heating that makes you feel that way'. We then had an argument where he continued to insist that it was nothing to do with the heating, I was wrong etc.
I'm not annoyed that he left the heating on but I am really annoyed that something I have observed (and my mum!) about my body my entire life he is now telling me is a load of bollocks. Even with the proof that it is the first time the heating has been on whilst I'm asleep.... and I've woken up quite obviously ill!
I know it's a really trivial matter in the scheme of things, and that I'll be fine in a few hours but I am honestly quite upset about the fact that OH thinks it's OK to laugh at me over this, making me out to be a bit of an idiot when he can't possibly know if he's right.
For background, OH does not work in any scientific/central heating/health related field.