My (F26) husband (M29) keeps me up all night and then is upset when I sleep in.
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My husband works 7am-3:30pm and I work 9:30-6 so I get home about an hour after him. He usually has dinner made and then we talk for about an hour before I have to start getting ready for bed. I'm a light sleeper so the slightest noise wakes me and I have a hard time falling back asleep. I'm also in nursing school so I get up at 5am to study before work.<br><br>We've talked about how important it is for me to get sleep multiple times. <br><br>Before I go to sleep he'll ask if you can wake me up if "_______" happens. Sometimes it's our dog barking, sometimes it's delivering something, sometimes it's our printer (like the kind of printer that you use at home) making a weird noise. It's always something different and I'm a light sleeper so his talking to me throughout the night wakes me up.<br><br>One night I was awoken by him throwing something (he was throwing a plastic container filled with water onto the balcony because it was frozen solid). Another night I was awoken by him walking into the bedroom juggling two containers of frozen pipe water (our pipes burst).<br><br>He'll throw something in the trash can and if it makes a noise he'll open the bedroom door and say "oh did that wake you?" even though I'm already awake. It's not malicious I don't think but it still wakes me up.<br><br>This goes on throughout the night. Sometimes I've been woken up 10-15 times. He knows I'm a light sleeper but he continues to make these noises and then asks if I was awoken. It's like you know my sleep is important but you're still doing all you can to make sure that I don't sleep.<br><br>Then in the morning, he will always make comments about how late I sleep in. "You know if you went to bed at a decent hour you wouldn't have to sleep in so late." I go to bed at 10:30 and set my alarm for 5am. I get up and take a shower and have some coffee and head to my office to study for the day. He always makes some comment about how lazy it is to sleep in until 6am.<br><br>I have talked to him about this before and he says "I get it, I'll be quieter" and he does the same thing the next night. I don't know what to do. I'm so tired all the time because I don't get any sleep. I don't think he's trying to keep me up all night purposefully but it seems like he's not putting in effort to make sure I can sleep.<br><br>TLDR: my husband keeps me up all night and then makes comments about how lazy I am for sleeping in "so late" (until 6am)<br><br>UPDATE: He's been much more quiet and he hasn't made any comments about sleeping in. He's been really honest about when he's going to throw something away and makes sure I'm already up. <br><br>I don't know if anyone saw but he messaged me and said that he thought we needed to talk. I asked if everything was okay and he said yes but we do need to talk. I said okay and went to take a shower after work. When I got out he was gone. I figured he went for a walk but we usually go together. I texted him asking if we were going for that walk (I get off at 3:30 and he gets off at 4 but sometimes he takes a half day so we can spend time together). He said he was already out and he'd see me at home.<br><br>He called me a few times and I didn't answer and he said it was an emergency and begged me to answer. I answered and he said I was making a big mistake if I didn't get home now. When I got home he told me that I had posted on chambers and that was disrespectful and that he didn't do half the things I said in the post and that I only posted there for validation and sympathy.<br><br>I tried to explain that I had posted in hopes of getting some insight into the situation that maybe I hadn't thought of. I told him that that was the only reason, and that I didn't think he was a bad person and that I was hoping to find a resolution that was beneficial for both of us. He told me that I don't get to decide if he's a bad person. I said no, but that I do get to decide if I want to be with him, and that I want to be with him and I love him and I don't think he's a bad person. I said that I was just looking for ways we could make our relationship better and that I want to be happy and I want him to be happy.<br><br>He then said that I told chambers that he's not paying my student loans and that I'm paying rent and he said it's not true. I know that's not what I said but he was getting really mad so I just agreed to drop it.<br><br>Then he started saying that chambers doesn't know me and they don't know our situation and he said the past year has been hell for him and that he's barely had a job and our situation isn't what chambers has made it out to be. He told me about how chambers has made us out to be the typical abusive controlling husband and submissive wife and how chambers is saying that he should let me make my own decisions and shit like that. He said that I don't need chambers's approval to make a decision and I'm not a submissive wife. He said that I need to stop complaining so much and that I should be grateful for what I have.<br><br>Around this time his mom started calling and texting and asking what was wrong. She saw some of the comments that chambers had made about him being abusive and controlling and she said that chambers doesn't know what he's been through and that no one knows our situation. I texted her back and apologized and said I didn't mean to hurt anyone and that I just wanted advice and that I didn't mean to upset anyone and I didn't know that he was going to see the post. I told her I was sorry and I love her but she said that she felt bad for my family because they're stuck with me.<br><br>My husband told me to delete the post and I said no because I hadn't gotten any advice yet. He said he wanted me to delete it and I told him again no. He said he was going to go stay with his mom for the night and he would see me in the morning.<br><br>He left and he texted me saying that he can't believe I'm letting him look bad like that. He said he can't believe I did this and he's upset.<br><br>I don't know what to do. I feel so bad that I hurt him. I don't think I'm a bad person and I didn't mean to hurt anyone. I just wanted help. I don't know what to do and I don't know if I should delete the post or not.
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