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To want to sometimes sleep on my own

32 replies

Cantbelievethisishappening · 05/08/2014 00:13

Lying here with about one inch of space either side of me, DH snoring his fucking head off, I'm hot and my back is killing me because I can't sprawl out and have a long drive tomorrow. Am a bad sleeper at the best of times. DH was away for a few weeks and I slept sooooo well. Would love to have a few nights a week sleeping on my own but when I suggested it DH was like Hmm and then Shock
Right now I am just raging and want to elbow him really hard

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ClockWatchingLady · 05/08/2014 03:59

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8245578.stm

YANBU.

Google Dr Neil Stanley. He makes me feel.better about the fact I also often need to sleep alone.

sykadelic · 05/08/2014 04:13

Some nights my husband gets too hot and sleeps on the couch. He used to sleep on the couch the last work day of the week because my snoring (I have sleep apnea) was keeping him up and he needed a good sleep to make it through. Now I have a CPAP we sleep together probably most nights now. I do miss sprawling! LOVE IT!

Sleeping together, in the same bed, is about being able to have sex and cuddle. If you're just lying next to each other asleep, no biggie. I'm not saying it's a good idea to do it often (I do like the intimacy) but just once in a while to get a good night in there.

I'd just be honest and tell him you want to try one night. Not a permanent move, just on night a week, or fortnight or month or something.

Cantbelievethisishappening · 05/08/2014 07:40

Thanks for the responses. I had a grand total of three and a half hours sleep.
Am done with it. I am going to sleep on my own two nights a week. If he has an issue with it then clearly he doesn't have a problem with the fact that I exhausted.

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canweseethebunnies · 05/08/2014 08:11

YANBU. My mum and my step dad have had separate bedrooms for the past 18 years for exactly this reason! Sleeping apart originally started when my sister was born, under the guise that he would get better sleep for going to work, seeing as my sister was ebf. My mum slept so much better without the snoring, she never had him back!

whois · 05/08/2014 08:22

It's pretty selfish to not want your partner to get a good nights sleep. It's not like you were asking him to go and sleep in the she for anything!

I'd do a week or two of repeatedly waking him up the ought the night and telling him to stop snoring.

TheWomanTheyCallJayne · 05/08/2014 09:18

I was wondering how you were op
Between dh and the dog (older puppy, suddenly started to whine at night)
I didn't get much sleep either. At least dc4 slept through this time though.

I've decided I don't want a seperate bed, I want my own house.
(Actually a spare bed would be bliss)

Mitzimaybe · 05/08/2014 10:12

DP likes the bedroom warm; I like it cool. We both sleep better alone. We are planning to have a bedroom each in our new house. Don't rule out that sometimes - maybe most of the time - we will sleep together, but we will have the option not to.

YANBU.

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