You’re always cold, your husband’s always hot. The science and psychology behind why the exact same temperature can make two people feel so dramatically different.
In the dead of winter Ruti only needs a simple sweater to stay warm. “I’m always running on hot ” she says. Her husband Yaniv on the other hand wears a padded full-body suit the kind that gas station attendants sport in frigid weather.
“My husband is like a lizard — cold-blooded” jokes Ruti who lives in Tiveria. “In the winter he hibernates; in the summer he basks in the heat of the sun.”
As soon as the long hot sticky months of summer hit Ruti starts davening for them to be over. “I have to continually be wet — I take three or four cold showers a day and put on a layer of wet clothes under my other clothes. I try not to leave the house but if I have to I carry around a spray bottle that I never go anywhere without. I can’t be more than half a minute from a fan — it’s the only way I can function.”
When Yaniv and Ruti spend time outside he sits in the sun she in the shade. “Inside the house I’ll crank up the air conditioning and he pulls on a sweater ” Ruti says. “We make sure cold things are pointing in my direction and hot things towards him!”
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