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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

For asking my partner not to sleep naked

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Em111110 · 04/05/2026 23:21

For some reason, my partner of 13 years has recently started sleeping naked. By recent, I mean the last few weeks. He says it is freeing and he sleeps better naked. There are occasions where we have fallen asleep naked in the past but we mostly wear pjs or at least underwear. The main reason is we have an 11 year old daughter, but I am also a bit of a clean freak and he is a typical sweaty farty man and it it gives me the ick sleeping naked in our sheets. My partner also doesn’t sleep well and gets up numerous times through the night, leaving the room to go for a drink, bathroom etc naked or kicks the sheets off so everything is on show. He says I am controlling for asking him to wear at least underwear to bed but I don’t think it’s appropriate for him to be naked when we have a nearly teenage daughter. AIBU?

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CloudyBayPlease · 16/08/2026 10:33

The comments on this thread are hilarious. Some of you lot are very uptight.

We sleep naked, always have done. We have 2 non-traumatised adult offspring who were raised to be completely comfortable about nudity. We don’t walk around the house naked, but nor do we treat nudity like it’s something to be feared and shamed.

MsJinks · 16/08/2026 10:38

Pleased this thread has been resurrected - it’s so hilarious - and reminds me of why I first joined MN ha!

likelysuspect · 16/08/2026 11:03

Cherrytree86 · 11/05/2026 19:55

I sometimes think that a lot of mumsnetters may have only got married and had sex in order to have children

Its really clear that is a fact from plenty of threads on here.

GirlNamedJess · 16/08/2026 20:33

Harry12345 · 16/08/2026 10:22

I’m not disgusted by nakedness at all but people judging others who choose to sleep in underwear or pjs as they are more comfortable isn’t nice either, each to their own

Judging? Where did you get that from? I'm not judging anyone. Sleep attire should be what is most comfortable. I prefer my husband to sleep nude, and it's never been an issue because he sleeps that way, anyway. I wasn't being serious about dictating sleep attire. If he starts to wear clothes to bed I would probably ask him why, but it's not a big deal. Preferences can change. But what I don't understand is why preferred sleep attire is an issue at all.

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