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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To leave DH on the couch?

15 replies

Hegsy · 12/12/2012 23:03

DH is currently lying snoring on the couch. This happens every night and takes at least half an hour of coaxing or yelling from the bedroom to get him to come through. So I've had enough and I give up I'm leaving him there and if he spends the full night there then tough.

AIBU?

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hatgirl · 12/12/2012 23:05

YANBU DP does it to me all the time! I'm slowly learning to drag myself up to bed before I fall asleep completely.

BridgetJonesPants · 12/12/2012 23:05

I'd put a quilt over him in the hope he doesn't wake up. That way, you have the bed to yourself all night & no-one snoring next to you.

HayleBoppingAroundTheXmasTree · 12/12/2012 23:09

I've just left snoring dh on the sofa. Currently starfishing till he comes up in an hour or so. Enjoy the quiet of him snoring downstairs and not in your ear!

cheekybaubles · 12/12/2012 23:10

Oh I love it when that happens! It's a good night's lip in a nutshell :)

mammyof5 · 12/12/2012 23:17

me to Smile leave him there and enjoy. mine is snoring as i type and i will soon be doing my impersonation of a star fish Xmas Smile

StuntGirl · 13/12/2012 00:41

Oh god leave him there. If he wants to sleep in his bed he'll drag himself there!

Plomino · 13/12/2012 00:43

Yep, LTB .

On the sofa anyway ! Enjoy the duvet hogging !

BridgetBidet · 13/12/2012 00:59

I do that, but it's the chair not the sofa. Leave him , he'll feel like shit in the morning, that'll learn him.

FreyaFridays · 13/12/2012 06:41

I do this all the time. When DP and I first moved in together, he used to carry me through to the bedroom as I wouldn't move (little will wake me after I'm properly asleep- I've been known to sleep through a fire alarm), but now he just saves his back and covers me up with a blanket!

We have a stupidly comfy couch Grin

funchum8am · 13/12/2012 23:03

mine does this every night! I have learned to just leave him and enjoy having the bed to myself til he appears between 11 and 1. Now we have a 10 week old dd I sometimes send him back downstairs so we can cosleep - you snooze you lose!

lottiegarbanzo · 13/12/2012 23:08

You only need to persuade him to come to bed if you want him there, surely? Otherwise it's his choice.

babybythesea · 13/12/2012 23:19

The only thing that might persuade me to move him was if he was likely to wake me when he came to bed. My DH seems largely incapable of coming to bed without turning on multiple lights (sometimes in the bedroom, sometimes in the hallway where the light then shines on my face), or deciding that since he's come upstairs he may as well put his washing away, or asking me (in a loud hiss) if I'm awake and if so can he read for a bit....
After some (what did Mrs Merton used to call them? Heated debates?) discussions during which I explained clearly and concisely exactly how I felt after being woken up, he has improved and does at least try to keep the lights off (although now we have the tripping-on-the-clothes-he's-left-on-the-floor routine instead, ideally followed by some loudly whispered swearing - if I comment on this I get "Well if you let me put the light on...."). Neither does he read - although he claims not to be able to sleep without reading first, I 'gently hinted' that if I was already sleeping he'd be better off doing his reading on the sofa, then climbing the stairs to join me. As he is incapable of reading if there is a TV in the room he now sacrifices the bedtime read on those nights when I'm in bed first!!!

So if you think he might stagger to bed later and disturb you I'd take steps to avoid this now - wake him and get him to move now, or make him really comfy so he doesn't wake until morning, or leave a note laying out the penalties for waking a sleeping woman!!!

babybythesea · 13/12/2012 23:20

Can you tell I really, really hate being woken up unnecessarily???

snuffaluffagus · 13/12/2012 23:28

God he sounds like a nightmare babyby, that'd drive me nuts. Fortunately my husband is good at coming to bed quietly if I've gone first.

Op, put a blanket over him and leave him there!

Hegsy · 13/12/2012 23:35

He's there again tonight sigh think I'm going to get him a slanket for Christmas. He's not loud when he comes through but I don't fall into a deep sleep until I get a kiss and cuddle.pathetic I know.

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