They try to tell me that the outdoor heat & humidity is so oppressive that they do not know how to exist anymore.
It can be challenging coming from a strenuous & toxic family. I know that I have learned a lot from being around these human beings all of my life, however at the same time I am so exhausted of their shenanigans. There is no way to have a conversation with my family members without them down playing your experience & commenting on their own particular brand of suffering or survival. They always have it worse, & you are always incommon for voicing your unhappiness. This is even the case when it comes to indisputable facts, but for instance, when they call me in the dead of Summer from their Northern latitude & tell me that the outdoor air temperature is too miserable to survive. They try to tell me that the outdoor heat & humidity is so oppressive that they do not know how to exist anymore. They are afraid that their central cooling system is going to chop down any morning, if the energy bills don’t cripple them first. I hear about their air quality problems in the sizzling & muggy Summer season every single year. They are always catastrophizing what could go wrong with their heating & cooling systems & telling me that I am blessed to have a much easier existence. The fact is, I live in the Deep South where the air temperature is particularly hotter & my reliance on air conditioning is far more significant, whenever I try to counter their complaints with indisputable data about my modern outdoor weather conditions, they just tell me to stop whining.