Tips on how not to get so wound up over this

[cyclingmad]

so wfh in a mid terrace house and discovered how thin my walls are....

Its really grating on me now hearing my neighbour sneezing, his TV bubbling away in the background, scrapping his plates when he is eating.

Now his fecking floorboards are creaking so I know when he is in his bedroom, also can hear him turn off his lights and hear his hed creaking when he gets in.

Like wtaf I'm living with someone without them physically in the house with me.

I'm really starting to hate my house and getting wound up by it.

Moving isn't an option I simply can't afford it nor is changing rooms as my other rooms are office and dressing room.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I actually now sleep with ear plugs on cos he goes to bed after I do and even then with ear plugs I can hear his floorboards

I need coping mechanisms how to not let it get to me

I feel your pain. I moved 2yrs ago away from a house like that. I could even hear them sniff like they were stood next to me, it was terrible. It was a ww1 concrete and steel prefab. I also had very eccentric neighbours who were loud and had a very strange lifestyle. Then they decided to harass us with more noise half the night every night. I used to go to bed with earplugs and sleep phones over the top of them playing pink and brown noise. It muffled it just enough I could get some sleep but being there made me so ill so I moved to a semi rural area, still a semi but most habitable rooms are on the other side from them. It's better built and I rarely hear anything, the occasional door the wind has caught if they have a window open but even then it's just a dull, distant thump not a house shaking, loud bang like before. Life is so much better now.

@CyberPixie its awful isn't it. I mean if I wanted to live with someone I would now i feel like i don't and I'm not haha

I've rented in so many places before and never experienced this but well certainly in the future if I buy a terraced or semi ill be more careful.

White noise! If it was that annoying thought, I would definitely move rooms . Just have a bigger office!

@gingerbeerandlemonade the problem is both double bedrooms are on the party wall side. So in my first few yrs saving up for furniture I slept in the front bedroom cos I could hear that he clearly used the back bedroom....only weeks later he started using his front room too. I moved the bed into the back room and he followed suit. I moved back to front bedroom and same thing.

Sigh ....

So i don't feel that swapping rooms is gonna make any difference anymore

I should start a thread each time....I've had 24hrs of bliss! The neighbour has not been in all day or night! Perhaps the building works next to him has made him leave for a while....

I even slept without ear plugs for once!