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I want a sleep divorce

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Sleepingcreulty · 20/10/2025 09:49

I love my husband dearly but over the last few years sharing a bed with him has become torture. He constantly fidgets due to an aching shoulder that he insists nothing can be done about , snores , farts loudly and gets up numerous times to go to the loo putting the light on every time . I’ve told him that he needs to reduce his fluid intake as he drinks mugs of coffee right up until bedtime but he insists this had no effect on him getting up so often . I have nudges in my back and breathing heavily in my face to get me to turn over as well as having the duvet pulled off me or dumped over me if he gets hot .He has a loud alarm that goes off at 5am that he puts on snooze and Its now beginning to affect my alertness and I’m fighting to stay awake in the day and often have to nap in the afternoon as I can’t fight the urge to sleep. I read online that having separate beds is the first step down the road to a divorce. I also read that broken sleep leads to health problems. I want to ask for separate beds but am frightened of hurting his feelings.

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Dunnocantthinkofone · 20/10/2025 09:56

Separate bedrooms is quite honestly the best thing we ever did. Neither of us would go back to sharing and enduring the lack of sleep again

Chrunchienuts · 20/10/2025 09:56

I know many couples (including us) who sleep apart. It may be great for the one who sleeps but being the one who gets no sleep is shit. Why are his feelings more important than your well being? Suggest you sleep in the same bed a couple of nights a week if you want to soften the blow!

zazazaaar · 20/10/2025 09:56

He sounds very annoying and selfish. Why the hell does he put on the light? Why does he use snooze, just get the fuck up.
I would move rooms or move out. I genuinely couldn't live with him sounds vile.

TheJessops · 20/10/2025 09:55

My husband is similarly awful to sleep with but not quite so bad. He doesn't put lights on and he's not obstinate about it and understands how it affects me. Do you have a spare room? One of us often de-camps to the spare room if he's being insufferable! Sometimes he just stays on the sofa if he feels it's going to be a bad night.

Not getting sleep due to someone else, is unbearable, I totally feel your pain. I'd worry it will eventually become your soul focus as the exhaustion will take over, and you'll resent him.

Is there a spare room you can utilise?

childofthe607080s · 20/10/2025 09:54

You need a good night sleep

has he seen a doctor about his snoring and his nighttime loo trips ?

HTruffle · 20/10/2025 09:54

I wouldn’t give two hoots about his feelings in this situation as he obviously has no regard for yours if unwilling to reduce the coffee intake. This is almost certainly explaining the fidgeting too.

OriginalSkang · 20/10/2025 09:53

You can't live like this forever for the sake of potentially hurting his feelings, though

shellyleppard · 20/10/2025 09:52

Seperate beds/rooms for a start?? It would drive me mad not getting a good night sleep