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To LTB over his bed sheet habits?

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GiraffeObsessedBaby · 20/10/2018 22:32

So my DH has a habit that has driven me nuts from day one. Honestly right now I can't remember why I married the man.

We have a beautiful, super king size, extra deep, extra fancy and weighing a literal fuck ton mattress. It's possibly my favourite thing on earth - except when it comes to making the bed.

My dh has this habit where he pulls the top corner of the fitted sheet - under his pillows - out from tucked nice and neatly under the mattress and wraps himself in it at night. So every frigging morning I've got a big wrinkle of fitted sheet down the middle of the bed where it's all come off and loose AND it's flicked off at my side and is usually covering my pillows.

Now we have discussed this many times. He sees no reason to make the bed properly each morning "as I'm only going to do it again tonight when I'm asleep". However! I've just caught the bastard red handed loosening my pristine hospital corners so that he can get to it easier!

I'm packing his bags and booting him out.

Please tell me I'm not alone. What stupid shit does your OH do that drives you to the brink of insanity?

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3out · 22/10/2018 22:17

Totally agree @poster Chalkhillblu3 , definitely still a giant toddler needing his comforter.
OP, could you ask his mum if he used to do it when he was small, and if so, did she come up with any answers to stop it?

heidithebogey2 · 23/10/2018 00:42

LTB doesn't cover it. Have him killed.

lalalalyra · 23/10/2018 00:47

Second sheet and your own duvets. It's the reason my marriage has lasted as long as it has (well, that and long periods of DH working away!) without our own beds.

Giggorata · 23/10/2018 06:48

When we first got together, mine always had the World Service murmuring all night, at an almost sub hearing level, which wasn't disturbing. Now he's older (and deafer) the radio blares out all night, sometimes enough to wake me in the bedroom next door, where I decamped years ago, for sanity's sake.
(He does all the radiating, grunting, snoring, twitching, etc as well.)
Every time we go away, I am pleasantly reminded of all these bedroom habits during the sleepless nights. How I haven't killed him, I don't know..

Snitzelvoncrumb · 23/10/2018 07:00

My next bed is going to be two singles, my dh thinks im joking. Apparently I steal the duvet, so when he gets into bed he holds down the bloody duvet.

Trumpton · 23/10/2018 07:06

Oh bugger ! We are going away next week and ,horror upon horror ,have to share a bedroom and ,worse, a double bed !

I love my own bedroom .

JudyGrandChamp · 23/10/2018 07:58

Buy a single sheet, roll him up in it every night like a giant tortilla (make sure his arms are properly bound). Bob's your uncle.

Inmyvestandpants · 23/10/2018 09:45

I woke up early this morning and started thinking about this thread. I felt compelled to try out the big fish-leap thing to see if it’s possible. It woke up DH, who wondered if I was ok. Then I had to explain that I was testing out the full-body-leaping thing and he said, “oh, like a salmon” as if that explained everything.

smurfy2015 · 23/10/2018 12:09

YANBU op.

I'm the constantly cold one in our relationship and my OH is another radiator. When both have single beds and "meet" in the double.

He has a severe sleep disorder and secondary to that he also has periodic limb movement disorder which are involuntary movements in his sleep so it's like being beside someone as they disco dance all night. Add into that, where he talks in his sleep, mumbles and also lets the occasional scream as he is having hypogenic hallucinations it keeps things interesting I've had to leave the bed many times as he was hitting out, he couldn't be wakened even after hours of this, at one point it looked like he was having some type of seizure but it wasn't it was narcolepsy and its effects.

On the other hand, I love blankets on top of the duvet, cushions to support my body as I move and have sleep apnoea, I'm waiting on CPAP machine be ordered via clinic but have to see the consultant first. I am very prone to sleep paralysis. I also have a lot of nightmares which come from side effects of meds I am on so I often scream and cry in my sleep.

When we got together, the bedroom was an "interesting" set up. The fan heater on my side blasting heat at me, we made a "windbreaker" down the middle of the bed which stopped his fan freezing me and my heater making him hotter. The windbreaker had a frame and we could push it back for cuddling and push it off as needed for DTD. It worked for quite a while for us.

I've had times where I thought about the patio and so has he in relation to me but we work thru it

Harriedharriet · 23/10/2018 12:56

This is very bad op. Call the police and log it. Really. That way they have a record when this goes further. Which it will.

RagingWhoreBag · 23/10/2018 23:47

Could it be dairy SirVix? Was just watching celebrity call centre (class!) and someone phoned in about their snoring. The delectable Joel Dommett said someone in the jungle snored horrendously but after 4 or 5 days of no alcohol and no dairy he was cured for the first time in years. Dairy can make people phlegm-y.

Ellie56 · 24/10/2018 00:17

This would drive me nuts. How is your DH still alive?

fluffycatinahat · 24/10/2018 00:45

I'm confused OP is he doing this on his sleep or on purpose when he's nodding off?

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