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I want to sleep in separate beds, he refuses

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Ethaniol · 18/04/2024 23:10

My boyfriend is really good and he’s the classic case of all my female friends being like “ooo he’s not like a normal man” which I hate anyway, I’ve always said I’d never settle for someone who didn’t want to pull their weight and be equals etc. he does his fair share of housework and actually does all the cooking, I then just do the deep cleaning bits but it all averages out as fair and I’m very happy. We are healthy with communication and I do feel he’s done a lot to accommodate me (not because I won’t compromise) but simply as he says to me “I don’t have any strong opinions on this so if it is important to you, we will do it that way” type of thing, so obviously when something is important to him, I want to try and accommodate that but I’m really struggling. I have lived in my place on my own for 6 years and he has stayed in his family home since he finished uni. He’s at mine quite a bit (been dating 10 months) and I get no sleep… I hate it. He’s tall and heavy and I wake up with him literally all over me, legs heavy on me and it wakes me up, roasting hot, etc. like I genuinely can’t cope with this sleep anymore. I end up moving to the sofa almost every time in my own home… it’s actually stressing me out because I’m now thinking can I actually ever be in a relationship. I then realised how some couples sleep in different rooms all together! Obviously not possible at mine as I have one bedroom but I did think about having 2 beds next to each other and he has said absolutely not, but he’s happy to have a super king bed one day (it’s not possible in my current place as the bedroom then wouldn’t fit anything else in) but I’m now here actually worried because do I really just have to accept I’m never getting decent sleep again when he stays? Like I know it sounds horrible but I often look forward to the nights he goes home so I can sleep properly and it shouldn’t be like that, but this is like the only issue I’ve got so surely this will be the same in any relationship… now I’m worried I just can’t be in one! Help!

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Nanny0gg · 19/04/2024 00:02

Ethaniol · 18/04/2024 23:22

to be fair we both seem to end up without a duvet because of the absolute jungle it ends up feeling like, I wouldn’t mind if I could just be left alone on my side of the bed, but I wake up with him all over me (and he isn’t doing it on purpose) but it’s extra bad when he is double the weight of me so a leg is quite heavy! And enough to wake me up

It’s my place and it does feel unfair to be the one having to always end up on the sofa or be constantly sleep deprived for him to wake up going “ah you have the best bed ever, I sleep so well here” but I try to act like it’s our home and stuff as I imagine he will end up living here one day and I don’t want to sound unreasonable by constantly bringing up it’s my place as if one day it’s not, I know I’ll have to find a balance then anyway so trying to do that now but I just wish he would go for the separate beds next to each other, as I say one day we will definitely get a super king but it’s not realistic right now but seriously the thought of having this lack of sleep get even worse the more he stays/one day moves in is getting me down

He's being thoroughly selfish and you're letting him!

He either goes along with what you want in your house or he stays at home.

HeddaGarbled · 19/04/2024 00:08

Women don’t throw themselves all over the bed when they’re sharing. It’s just typical man-spreading: thoughtless and entitled. He can train himself to take up less space.

thecrispfiend · 19/04/2024 01:36

How about trying one of those long pillows down the middle of the bed and if that doesn't work definitely do what you need to do to get some sleep!

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