To not tell him the time

[Hohohole]

Everynight my partner will ask me the time when we're in bed asleep. I might just turn over in bed and he'll ask me. I've stopped answering him because it means looking at my phone, when he has his right beside him. Aibu in stopping being his talking clock?

[Thisismytimetoshine]

@Punkatheart

Get Alexa - he can ask her ad nauseam.

It'll still wake op.

[AfterSchoolWorry]

Thisismytimetoshine He has Parkinson's.

[AnnieCartwright]

Every time he asks, just tell him to fuck off! I'm sure he'll eventually get the message.

[camelsellingrugs]

Sounds like he wants to interrupt your sleep.

[gutentag1]

Just say "I don't know".

[Thisismytimetoshine]

@AfterSchoolWorry

Thisismytimetoshine He has Parkinson's.

This explains why he wakes up, not why he thinks his oh should wake too.

[almalm]

I would just completely ignore him. No way would I be pandering to that nonsense.
Do not get annoyed, do not respond to him - completely blank him. He is looking for a reaction. If he doesn't get one he will eventually stop.

[Vik81]

Buy him a 90s digital clock radio, even in the dark he will know the time then!

[TheMaddHugger]

I just watched an ep of Midsomer Murders where the killer gave himself an alibi by changing the time on the bedside clock. so he could wake his wife at an odd time. For the time. and give him a witness to the fact he was there.

Is he planning to murder someone in Midsomer ? @Hohohole

[Zaphodsotherhead]

Ooh, yes @TheMaddHugger - Richard Briars as a baddy! Couldn't get my head around that!

[Hohohole]

He has to get up for 5 so he might be panicking thinking he overslept but come on...
We have a baby who could wake anytime from 5am to 8am so please just leave me sleep.

I'm just going to ignore him from now on.

[SadSisters]

What's with the adult human shit.
He's a man, you can type man. Your fingers won't drop off.

Who pissed on your chips?

My point is that many people were behaving as though it was OP’s job to solve his problem - i.e. dumping the emotional and practical labour required by a man on to a woman. But since he is an adult, and therefore has access to money / Tesco / the internet and a human (dogs struggle with online payments and aren’t allowed in supermarkets) he’s perfectly capable of helping himself even if he does have a penis and a partner who could do it for him.

[Thisismytimetoshine]

@Hohohole

He has to get up for 5 so he might be panicking thinking he overslept but come on...
We have a baby who could wake anytime from 5am to 8am so please just leave me sleep.

I'm just going to ignore him from now on.

Why not just tell him to bloody well stop? What's wrong with you?

[Yorkshiremummyof1]

You can get an Alexa that shows the time, and you can mute the microphone before you go to bed. We have to do that because.....my partners name is very close to Alexa and I set it off constantly

[michelle1504]

Pre-empt him by asking him what time it is every so often before he has the chance to ask you.

[Thisismytimetoshine]

@Yorkshiremummyof1

You can get an Alexa that shows the time, and you can mute the microphone before you go to bed. We have to do that because.....my partners name is very close to Alexa and I set it off constantly

You can change "Alexa" to anything you choose.

[BigBoosh]

I broke up with someone who kept on checking the time on their phone every 15 minutes. Did my head in,

[twoshedsjackson]

Another suggestion for an answer, "Why do you need to know?".
But my fave is the frying pan.

[NotSuchASmugMarriedNow1]

oh for goodness sake just do the exact same thing to him - he'll soon stop doing it.

[Purplephonecover]

Thisismytimetoshine I can’t see them and would need to put the light on to find my glasses. When I had sleep in contact lenses it was fine but I can’t use them any more.

[Hohohole]

I have told him to stop but he just apologises and says he thought I was awake.

[Thisismytimetoshine]

@Hohohole

I have told him to stop but he just apologises and says he thought I was awake.

God, I couldn't live with someone this dumb.

[Jux]

@SadSisters

What's with the adult human shit.
He's a man, you can type man. Your fingers won't drop off.

Who pissed on your chips?

My point is that many people were behaving as though it was OP’s job to solve his problem - i.e. dumping the emotional and practical labour required by a man on to a woman. But since he is an adult, and therefore has access to money / Tesco / the internet and a human (dogs struggle with online payments and aren’t allowed in supermarkets) he’s perfectly capable of helping himself even if he does have a penis and a partner who could do it for him.

FAB! 😄😄😄😄😄⭐⭐⭐⭐

[FinallyHere]

DH used to do this a lot. Took me quite some time to work out that he is just voicing his own thoughts, not actually asking me

Only when adult DSS stayed with us for a few days and I noticed him talking away to himself that I really believed DH

One thing g we do agree on in this house, though, is that we don't sulk. We sometimes have to break off and say I just need a moment to to sort myself out. Have a break and continue whatever it was later but fully blown sulk, no.

[VettiyaIruken]

Have you asked him why he asks you when he knows you have to get your phone, unlock it, look at the time and tell him when he could simply get his own phone, unlock it and look at the time? Why does he want you to do it instead of him when he's the one who wants to know.

Really make him explain his thinking.

And then come back and tell me cos I'm dying to know 😁