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I'm not your bloody alarm clock

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PurpleCatCuddles · 16/08/2022 07:38

DW and I (both women) are quite different in that I'm naturally a morning person and she is naturally a night owl.

She has been wanting to get up earlier (well, and needing to - it's not really acceptable to sleep until 10am every day when you've got a busy life). She's been trying to get up at 6:30am so that she can have a workout and wake up properly, rather than rushing to her desk at 8:45am having just woken up. She has explicitly asked me to wake her up if her alarm does not do so.

We've gotten into a bit of a pattern of her turning her alarm off and me having to wake her up. She is grouchy in the mornings and this is horrible to do because until she has had her morning coffee she is not nice to be around! I have now found out that over the last week or so, she's decided to not even bother setting an alarm as me getting her up is more effective (even though it starts my day on a bad foot).

I've asked her not to do this multiple times and explained how this whole situation makes me feel. Well, she's done it again. Am I awful for only trying to wake her up once today, and then leaving her to it? I'm quite sick of dealing with a grouchy 30 year old teenager every morning despite making the conditions as nice as possible - dealing with the dogs, making her morning coffee etc.

Thank you.

OP posts:
Ragwort · 16/08/2022 17:51

How did she cope before she met you?

KangarooKenny · 16/08/2022 17:52

Old fashioned alarm clock in a metal box on the other side of the room.

FusionChefGeoff · 16/08/2022 17:57

DH is very good but on the few occasions when he said he was getting up and doesn't, he gets one nudge 'it's 6.30' and that's it.

Agree you need to get her to take responsibility for this it would drive me mad you're not her mum!

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