To think he deserved the hidden alarm clocks?

[TheHouseThatJackBuilt]

Namechange although might be recognised - please don't out me if so! Been living with partner for 6 months or so. All is not well really for a number of reasons but a big bug bear of mine recently has been his alarm clock in a morning.

Basically he has to be at work for 6am. He sets his alarm for 5am. It goes off and he drags his carcass up, sits on the edge of the bed and stares at the fucking alarm while it continues to screech. When we first moved in together I told him this irritated me as it just wakes everyone else up and is annoying. He says he can't help it as he needs a few minutes to "come around". He stopped doing it for a while but has now continued - 5am - RING RING RING RING ........ he sits there staring at it being a Baloo for ages. This is on top of him getting up a million times a night and making a racket for stupid reasons such as "I can't remember where I put my glasses" and "I can't remember if I flushed the toilet or not" etc etc etc. I'm so fucking tired of it. Ive not slept properly since we moved in together.
This morning it was his day off so I set 6 alarm clocks - all for 4am and hid them all around the bedroom. Funny how he managed to get up straight away in search for them all isn't it.

So some of you would leave a relationship before trying to fix it? FFS!

Yes OP did childish revenge to teach him a (well deserved) lesson. It might work and they'll live happily ever after.

My solution to DH related sleep deprivation is to chuck him out to the spare room or sometimes I sleep on a mattress on the floor of the dc's room.

Yanbu

Next time he sits there staring there at the alarm clock cos "he needs time" point out how he shot up at 4am in an instance

DH and I sleep in separate rooms when he is on an early shift so he can go to bed early without me waking him when I go to bed, and so he doesn't wake me up at a stupid time!

Yes it's a bit childish - but did it work?

I would have gone full rage having my sleep disturbed for no good reason as yours has been.

Im a terrible snoozer. BUT i switch the alarm off quickly.

Tbh youre not overly invested yet, id walk away. He clearly annoys you. That will fester.

God there are some humourless people on mn

My ex would do this with but with his phone. Alarm would be put on snooze a good 10 times. It would then go off 5 mins later. I bought one of those stupidly loud bell topped alarms. I woke early, set it for the time he had to get up and put it next to the bed. This one sounded like an old fire alarm. Its safe to say it scared him shitless.

He was pissed. Oh my it was satisfying. It was the best lie in ever.

What have you go planned for the next time he acts like a twat?

YANBU. He's basically saying your sleep/needs are unimportant.

Don't waste your life on him if he won't change his selfish ways.

I think hiding the clocks set for 4am was brilliant. I'd have lay in the bed trying not to giggle. Revenge is sweet, and I guess I'm still immature in my 50's or maybe I get the reason she did this.
Dh used to hit snooze each morning, usually just once at 5am and that drove me mad, I told him to knock it off and just get up right away. He went back and forth a while but it did get better. My alarm used to go off at 5.45 so not any time to get back to sleep really.
Kick his bum while he's say on the edge and remind him to get out and be quiet about it. It's rude and selfish to keep hitting snooze and sit listening to the alarm.

So some of you would leave a relationship before trying to fix it? FFS! If I moved in with someone, then realised he was one of the most selfish people I mad ever met, yes, I would end it. Not because of an alarm clock though...

Once you've got to the stage of waking someone up purposefully at 4am on their day off, or every night with stupid bullocks about toilet flushing, or branding your partner the most selfish person ever... I think you're past trying. You're just waiting everyone's time and prolonging the inevitable.

What happened this morning op?

I read your first post and thought it was funny, though it made me a bit, as I know that I'm awful with my alarm (and yes, 8.51am fully awake me knows it's totally unreasonable, 6.15am asleep me just doesn't get the message). Then I read the second post and realised you're not 'oh what are you like?' angry, you're really angry. You just don't seem to like him, probably entirely justifiably. My husband (again, totally reasonably) gets cross when I set alarms and then let them run, but he sees it as one of the many ways in which I'm a bit annoying, not as a sign that I'm a bad person. Also, you're six months into living together - if there was ever a time for rose-tinted glasses this is it! If this is how you feel now, how do you think you'll feel after six years?

I don't think this is a relationship that is going to last.
Two selfish people.

He sounds very very selfish

not only fir the lack of consideration about how much he wakes you and everyone up.

but because he clearly has sleep issues that he refuses to do anytbing about amd would rather wake everyone up than see a dr.

I think your trick has proved just how selfish he is and that of he wanted to he could turn his clock off.

question is what are you going to do with this information