To ask my husband not to nap while I'm working

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I work from home and unfortunately the only space that we have available for my work station is in our bedroom. I know - it's a pain, but it is what it is. We don't have space for it in the living room/kitchen, and I need a room with a door that shuts anyway because I have a lot of client meetings & work with financials.

I just need the space during normal working hours, so if I work unreasonably early or late I'm totally fine with having someone else in the room and I try to be really quiet. But during normal working hours, I like to try and separate my work from home so I don't get distracted and can stay productive.

Sometimes my husband will wander in during the work day and start napping in the bed (which is what my desk faces). I find this really annoying and distracting, but I don't know if I'm being unreasonable or if this is okay. He only works part time right now and no night shifts or anything like that. It's not even the napping that's annoying me - but we have a sofa in the living room he could use. I just don't want someone sleeping in the same room I'm working.

Am I being a bitch, or am I justified to ask him to stop?? 😫

This. Why is he only working part time? Why does he need to lie around the rest of the time?

Just because someone works part time doesn't mean they don't equally contribute to household expenses. He could be a very high earner. My partners part time wage would still be way more than my full time wage.

I would pretend to have several very talky calls every time he does it.

Usual typical bitching about wfh I see. Homes have lots of functions. Mine is currently - mine and my partners home, his full time office, my part time office and his daughters holiday home.

Some people have no office anymore so have no choice. Some people wfh sometimes or all the time for work/life balance reasons. Whatever, during working hours then the person using some of the space to earn the money to keep the place going really should take priority.

I agree if it's a choice to work from home but I don't see why my DH should have to tiptoe around in our very small home because my company have said I have to work from home. I work in the living room and if he wants to sit on the sofa then as far as I'm concerned he can.

That's a little different to going to bed

But it's not really about the napping so much as the disrespect. He knows she is working, and she doesn't like him napping there. He could go nap on the sofa in the living room, but he chooses to nap in the bedroom.

That’s so disrespectful,you are 100% entitled to be annoyed with him.please discuss with him and have that selfish behaviour stop.

Maybe it’s because OP keeps waking him up with her ‘quiet’ early morning/late night tapping and bright computer screen.

I’d be wondering why he’s napping and not finding something else to get on with during the day. But I’m mean and find grown adults napping in the day childish. Unless they work nights or have a medical condition.

Nowt wrong with a nanna nap.

Or a nap shed 😆