I love my family, despite the fact that I can only take them in small doses! I feel this is normal for every family, so I don’t feel too horrible about my love of distance, then unluckyly, my parents didn’t have any heat yesterday due to a sizable heating system issue, so they needed a place to stay.
If the hot & cold temperatures weren’t supposed to drop so low & the weather channel wasn’t calling for snow, I wouldn’t have gave them a place to stay.
This isn’t because I don’t love them, but because I know they’d be fine in their own home without heat if the weather wasn’t going to be so drastic, then my parents gratefully took up my offer to stay at my apartment until their heating system was repaired… When they first arrived, they told me that it felt fine to be in a home with working heat! This made me cheerful, despite the fact that I knew they’d be dying to change the thermostat settings before dinner. They constantly change the thermostat settings in my apartment because they don’t like giving up control & since they’re in my house, changing the temperature is the only way they can feel in control. I was right, because I found my dad kneeling in front of my thermostat trying to change the settings. When I told him that only I could change the temperature because it was a smart thermostat he was shocked, now, he’d have to ask me to change the temperature every time he wanted to change it. I knew he’d never amount to that, which is why I had the smart thermostat installed in the first place.