I am at the end of my tether.
My partner is in this ridiculous cycle. She gets really into a TV show and watch it through the night, and then watch more the night after, and the night after, until she is unable to get to sleep at all because she's spent a week straight watching telly instead of sleeping. She needs roughly 9 hours of sleep a night, meaning that when she gets up in the morning, she either sleeps in or is absolutely horrible to me until about 2pm-ish. She then has an evening nap for about three hours after work, and then at night goes, 'I can't sleep again!'.
It's exhausting. Every single morning I am treated like shit, and every single evening I watch her crash out on the sofa and think, 'Well, that's tomorrow morning fucked too'. We do not have children but we do have two dogs and she works from 9am so it's not like she has no responsibilities.
This cycle can last for months, and then one night she decides to force herself to stay awake until 10pm instead of napping, sleeps through, and then is back to a normal sleep schedule pretty much straight away. I think the fact that it is quite so easily fixable is what pisses me off so much - and her audacity to say that she has sleep issues... er, no, you just watched TV too much and got into a bad habit! Also when she's in this cycle, all household stuff/dogs/cooking/etc falls to me, which as someone with chronic fatigue is not great.
I don't know, maybe I'm being grumpy, maybe I don't understand because I never watch TV shows, and maybe I'm also annoyed because I genuinely do have sleep issues and I've just learnt to work my way around it without being horrible to everyone around me. But I am really, really sick of this - she got into yet another cycle of this a few nights ago, and I have taken to hiding away in my office from her because I can't be bothered to deal with it.
So, mumsnet, how do I really get her to understand how much her binge watching and sleep affects everyone else in the house? She just doesn't listen when I try to explain how being treated badly every morning makes me feel, and how rubbish it is to have to try and do everything household based whilst working full time, with a disability. And I really am on my final rope with this.