To smother DH with a pillow!

[TinLeaf]

DH makes this really loud, incredibly annoying, clicking noise all night long! I have tried earplugs and they do work but always fall out after a few hours and then the clicking wakes me up again.

I’m not getting anywhere near enough sleep because It wakes me up every couple of hours. I am exhausted, I haven’t felt so tired since dd was a baby and waking up for night feeds.

It’s causing so much friction in our marriage, I know he can’t help it but he won’t even go to the doctor!

That sounds really strange. Is it his tongue? Grinding his teeth? He's being really selfish not going to the doctor. It's one thing that he can't help it but another to know about it and wilfully disturb your sleep by doing nothing to fix it.

There is a condition, I can remember the name, which causes this and it's to do with the tongue moving from the palate.

can you record the sound with your phone? so you can play it back & he knows what it is like. and so he can play the recording to the doctor.

do you have a spare bedroom you can sleep in?

DO IT

Have you tried sleeping with white noise? My husband snores like a troll, but since having a baby I now sleep with white noise all night and it doesn't bother me!

I used to have to sleep with ear plugs every night for years beforehand.

It’s causing so much friction in our marriage, I know he can’t help it but he won’t even go to the doctor!

If he wants to stick his head in the sand about his health fair enough but it sounds like he doesn't care that YOU are the one suffering from whatever his ailment is. Lack of sleep is used as torture, he's not being fair. Does he even acknowledge it's a problem for you?

Every other night he can sleep on the sofa so you can get some sleep. Only fair it affects him as well.

My dh clicks too and it does my tits in! He breathes in through his mouth and out through his nose and makes a click sound on the crossover. I wear a sleeping mask with built in headphones and listen to thunder and rain through it; it drowns out his racket so I can sleep but doesn't make me so unable to hear that I can't hear the kids etc.

I would get him to sleep on sofa one might a week so you can catch up on sleep.

My husband is a noisy sleeper too - snoring and weird noises. I sleep in the spare room but feel resentful sometimes because he has the nice super king bed and I’m in a single! If I complain he says he can’t sleep in the single so I have contemplated smothering also

I could have written this post. We now have separate bedrooms after many years of disrupted sleep and we are much happier for it!

I make a clicking noise when I sleep too. Luckily I sleep alone.

Has he got a Fitbit? It would tell him how much sleep he's actually getting as I doubt it's good quality and that will affect his health.

And get yourself one and show him how you sleep when he's in bed with you and how much you get when he's on the sofa.

Mine snores, makes a weird whining noise and, the worst of all, if he wakes himself up he does incredibly theatrical and noisy yawns. I can’t believe any court would convict me if I smothered him.