Coping with your SOs sleeping habits

[ashleyrose7990]

Hmm. I haven't seen anything on here about snoring yet? Well....my SO snores. Loudly. This time around when he came up to PA to see me, night one was pretty interesting. It was almost as if he was serenading me in snore form? Basically it was like a real deep breath and the "snore" sounded like he was running through musical scales.

Now hey, i'm not gonna bad talk my SO's sleeping habits. Mine are so much worse. I move around ALOT in my sleep. So much that he calls me a "pancake" that i have to keep flipping over when im too hot. LOL.

We deal with it though. Just being next to him makes me happy. We are slowly getting used to sleeping in the same bed together.

[ashdav2010]

My SO snores like a freight train....and I'm the type of person that loves complete silence when I sleep(go fig!). I have a few sets of earplugs next to the bed and put a pair in before I go to sleep, with a few extras in case I lose one in the middle of the night Being next to him is beyond worth it!

[Amelia]

Just got back from seeing my SO completely loved it and miss him already... The first night we set up a video to prove that i am not the one pushing the blankets and pillows onto him and that in fact he does steal them. The next day we watched the video it was hilarious. We watched it in fast motion because its quicker, so pretty much i kind of move in my sleep to my side of the bed and he follows me. So i move away from the blanket and pillows and he moves onto them. Then since ive moved to the side of the wall and cant go any further he moves back taking my pillows and blankets. That probably sounds really confusing. In the end he is a blanket and pillow theif and it may be partially my fault. Also how embarassing i snored briefly for a minute roughly every now and then...

[Chickadee]

LOL - I understood, Amelia, and couldn't help but laugh!

My SO and I have different schedules so I tend to be tired long before he is. (I find it incredibly difficult to fall asleep after someone else has, though, so I guess this works in my favor?) He likes to sleep cool, where I like to be in a cocoon - blankets and quilts even in the hottest summer nights. He toughs it out, though: I typically fall asleep on him in some fashion or really close, and he has the courtesy to stay until I move on my own accord or he does it very gently...I don't actually know!

Anyway, the only sleeping habit of his that I don't enjoy isn't even his fault - he works late (until 2am) so he sleeps the morning away...my favorite part of the day! I never have to feel bad about sleeping in, though; he won't notice. LOL

[Shepard-Fowkes]

We're fine with the blankets. But we both fight for dominance over the pillows :P. I have the issue too of him being WAY too close to me. I love cuddles, but I swear entire cities could be run on his body heat alone. So I end up trying to push the covers onto him -- or him onto the floor. The mornings with us are always interesting because I wake up hot as hell and I push him over a bit and he's just like "Zzz?" So, uh, I guess I'm the pushier sleeper . We deal with it by just trying not to be grumpy at each other and forgiving each other if we are. We actually sleep pretty cooperatively so it's not a big deal. And even if I've been crushed, boiled alive, and had the pillow taken out from under my head, I still sleep better with him than without him :3.

[lademoiselle]

Both of us are quite restless sleepers, and can wake each other up several times during any one night. Tossing and turning, kicking, sleep talking (me!), getting up to fetch a glass of water or use the bathroom... it's a wonder either of us get any sleep at all. Also, I'm prone to snuggling whereas my SO needs a fair amount of space in bed. We don't have blanket theft issues, but during our last visit my SO happened to use the large blanket while I covered myself with an unzipped sleeping bag, and we didn't seem to disturb each other as much that way. Despite all this, neither of us would want to go down the separate beds route, so we've decided that should we move in together we'd probably benefit from a king sized bed

[efish1042]

We sleep well together... when we're both okay. However, his house tends to upset my allergies so I can't breathe well and then I tend to snore and toss and turn. He is a bit of a pillow hog, but I'm a bed hog so it's okay. He just jerks a lot in his sleep. But we cope.