Sometimes I entirely wish that my partner would stop talking to her mother. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I want her to be distant from her family for any nefarious reason. I want her to have a good relationship with all of her family, however there are certain people who put terrible ideas in her head. I realized this early on when my wife told me that her mom was worried if I was going to be a good enough provider. Apparently, her mother’s major worry in life was having the ability to financially support a materialistic lifestyle. Everytime my partner and her mother talk on the cellphone there is some giant expense headed my way. My mother-in-law is convinced these afternoons that we need to replace our entire central heating and cooling system. She saw a segment on the news that commanded upgrading your forced air gas furnace and A/C device with more eco-friendly and energy-efficient air quality control systems. After that, my mother-in-law went out and installed radiant heated flooring throughout her house. She put evaporative cooling systems in the locale where her device once sat. Then, she started telling my partner we should do the same thing with our central heating and air conditioning system. The problem is, we have a really different financial situation than my mother-in-law. I do not have the currency for a full heating and cooling renovation. I barely even have the cash to support our daily energy bill at this point. I’m worried about my mother-in-law’s influence on my partner and the fact that my mother in law is trying to set her up with her heating and air conditioning specialist.