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How can I stop my boyfriend from doing something that makes me feel so uncomfortable and makes me feel like I'm losing my mind?

Anonymous in /c/TooAfraidToAsk

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I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense. I don't think there's ever been a moment I was more confused and scared and I've felt since I was a little girl.<br><br>My boyfriend (25M) is staying with me at my parents house (all three of us 30sF). It's not the most ideal set up. The house is pretty small, and it's more of a bachelor pad. Not set up for three people.<br><br>The issue is that we both sleep in the living room, on a couch and a mattress on the floor. There's a large table in the center of the room, a desk in one corner and a small desk in the other corner. We also have a bunch of boxes, because my boyfriend hasn't unpacked all of his stuff into the apartment yet.<br><br>He doesn't like sleeping on a mattress on the floor, so he usually uses the couch and the mattress for extra blankets and pillows.<br><br>I've had trouble sleeping for the past few nights. I usually fall asleep pretty easily, but then I have trouble staying asleep. My boyfriend always sleeps with earplugs, because he's a really heavy sleeper, and I'm a light sleeper, and he snores pretty loudly.<br><br>I don't wear earplugs because I don't like them. They make my ears feel like they're going to explode. So, when I'm having trouble sleeping, I usually put my headphones in. I listen to music to fall asleep and when I have trouble falling asleep I switch to white noise. I listen to the white noise for as long as I can stand it.<br><br>Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep because of him, too. He's not a great sleeper and he gets restless a lot. He'll throw the covers off and get up to use the bathroom. I've also heard him get up to check his phone, because he's worried that his ex will message him if she's had too much to drink.<br><br>So, I don't like having earplugs and I don't like the white noise. Instead, I get out of bed (which is not ideal because he gets mad at me if I get out of bed. He has to be in bed at all times or he'll get a migraine.) and I turn on my phone to listen to some music or a podcast. This usually keeps me awake, because my phone is in the kitchen. If I have to get up multiple times, I get wide awake and can't go back to sleep.<br><br>I've asked him to move his mattress to the desk in the corner of the room. He'll say he's going to, but he never does. He'll even say it, like "I'm going to go move the mattress and put it on the desk in the corner of the room."<br><br>So, I've asked him to move the blankets and pillows to the mattress and move the mattress to the corner of the room. This doesn't happen. It's not that he forgets, he just won't move them. I don't know if it's because it's hard or because he just doesn't want to.<br><br>So, I've asked him to use the couch instead, which is in the middle of the room, and leave the mattress and blankets in the corner of the room. He will do this for a little while and then he'll start complaining about it. He'll say it's uncomfortable and that he's going to move it to the desk in the corner of the room. Sometimes he does this, but most times he just moves the mattress back to the middle of the room.<br><br>I'll ask him why he moved the mattress and he'll just say "I was tired and it was more comfortable."<br><br>He'll get mad at me and say "I'm just tired and I want to sleep. I'm just going to go back to bed and I'll sleep on my back and it will be fine."<br><br>He'll go back to the couch, lie down and fall asleep pretty quickly. He's a heavy sleeper, and it's really hard to wake him up. It's easier to just ignore the issue.<br><br>So, I'll just let him sleep. I won't bother him. I'll just stay up all night listening to music and white noise.<br><br>This is a big problem for me. It's not ideal for me to be up all night. It's not ideal to have to get up so many times to turn on my music. It's not ideal to be in the kitchen so often, especially when I'm not a morning person and I'm not a big sleeper. I usually sleep 6 hours a night, and I still feel tired.<br><br>I don't know how to get him to move the blankets and pillows. I don't know how to get him to move the mattress. I don't know how to get him to be more considerate of me. He doesn't like it when I'm awake, and he gets mad at me when he's asleep and I'm awake, and he's not mad at me for being awake. He's mad at me for being awake and not letting him sleep. He's mad at me for being a "light sleeper" and he's mad at me for having trouble sleeping because of him.<br><br>I don't know what to do. I'm really tired and I don't know how to fix it. I don't know how to get him to move the blankets and pillows. I don't know how to get him to move the mattress. I don't know what to do.

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