The heat (Patreon)

The way I was raised, the only appropriate time and place for complaining was directly to the person who either caused the problem, or has the most power to fix it, with the intention of informing them that there is a problem that requires fixing. If something cannot be helped, it is not a problem, but simply a part of life, which won't go away no matter how much you'd complain, so there's no point in complaining at all. And if something isn't big enough of a problem to need fixing, it's certainly not big enough to complain about.

My partner was raised differently, to him complaining is just what you do for conversation, it doesn't mean anything more than that.

So I'm still at a loss of how to respond to repeated complaints about something I'm already aware of, and cannot help in any way. I know that it is hot. I know he doesn't like it. I can't fix it, he doesn't expect me to, and he doesn't want me to. He just wants to continue to repeatedly inform me that it's hot in here and that he doesn't like it.