JFF - What Annoying Sleeping Habits Does Your Bf/Fiance/Husband Have?

Updated on March 05, 2012
V.W. asks from Chisago City, MN
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I generally have a hard time falling asleep to begin with. I have to toss and turn for a while before I can find the "perfect" position/spot. So last night, after almost half an hour of searching, I found the perfect spot. I smiled to myself and closed my eyes to go to bed. Not even a minute later, my fiance rolls over so that he is facing me and starts breathing right in my face which ruins the perfect spot. I grumble a little but begin my search for a new perfect spot. Another 20 minutes passes before I find it again, this time I'm turned away from my fiance. Right after I close my eyes, he scoots up next to me and wraps his arm around me.

Now, I love my fiance and I love cuddling with him... But not when I'm trying to sleep! Lol. Normally it's not even an issue. He'll cuddle up next to me when he's trying to fall asleep and move into a more comfortable position after he's fallen asleep which leaves me free to toss and turn in search for that perfect spot. But last night I was wishing we were back in the "olden days" where the husband and wife slept in separate beds. Lol!

Which brings me to my question. What annoying sleeping habits does your boyfriend/fiance/husband have?

P.S Snoring doesn't count

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So What Happened?

Jo - Of course I like that he breathes, I just get annoyed in my overly tired state when he breathes right in my face. And I said that snoring doesn't count because if it did count everybody would reply 'snoring' since everybody is annoyed by it. Lol

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A.M.

answers from Kansas City on

lol. besides taking 2/3 of the bed and insisting on sleeping with his ridiculous body pillow which takes up another foot of bed space (ARGH!) - usually in between us (DOUBLE ARGH!)? although after 10 years i have pretty much gotten used to it...lol.

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K.M.

answers from Chicago on

Seriously, I am the annoying sleeper - he is a log that just lays there and protects the dogs from my insanity.

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L.A.

answers from Austin on

I am always hot. My Hunsband is like a furnace so sometimes I have to put a pillow between us. He also sometimes breaths on me, drives me insane.

Finally I went to a sleep study and found out I was only getting 2 times a night A few minutes of deep sleep, it was my breathing problems that was causing me inability to finally attempt to sleep. I now have a CPAP machine. I go to sleep so much quicker.

I guess this may explain why so many couples as they age, begin sleeping in separate bedrooms.

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J.W.

answers from St. Louis on

Seriously you don't like that he breathes but snoring doesn't count.

Oh lord you are going to have an interesting life.

Sans his snoring I sleep like a rock.

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A.G.

answers from Houston on

Luckily my husband doesn't snore or have annoying habits in bed..... I get annoyed at how longggggg the man can sleep..
I swear he can sleep 10 hours and then early in the day be tired .... But sometimes he will sleep 3 hours and work a double shift.

I need 6 to 8 a night or I go looney.

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K.I.

answers from Los Angeles on

Mine has 2 annoying sleep habits...

The first one being that he comes to bed uber late and then wants to have sex! When I was younger this wasn't a problem but now that I am older and we have a house full of kids and my schedule is different and my body is different it takes me a long time to fall asleep and then once I get woken up it takes me forever to fall back asleep...and I hate it!

The second one is that he gets hots and throws the covers off of him but then puts his legs (usually pointing them towards my side of the bed) on TOP of the covers and then I can't move the covers or pull them up where I want them if I ever readjust my position! ARG!

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C.O.

answers from Washington DC on

Nothing that he can control. He will turn his back to me - fine by me - and his feet will twitch - which just happen to be near MY feet and tickle the bottom of my feet.

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E.S.

answers from New York on

Excluding snoring as requested, my husband is a top-sheet fanatic. If I am asleep and the top sheet is twisted at the bottom of the bed, I am woken up as he rearranges it. Truth is I never grew up using a top sheet so this is all new to me!

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K.L.

answers from Sacramento on

My husband grinds his teeth... LOUD! It's so gross, and annoying! Even though he wears a night guard, he grinds very loudly, for long periods of time. His night guards have holes in them within a month...

And he rolls over to breathe in my face right as I get comfortable, too. I laughed out loud reading that ;)

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S.H.

answers from Honolulu on

Always telling me that "I" take up all the room on the bed. Then he tells me to inch more to the edge of the bed.
Yah right. I might as well just fall off the bed by then.

I am a lot smaller and shorter than my husband with a much smaller arm-span and body frame. Like hell I take up more room than him.
I always tell him he needs a bed to himself.... because he is all over the place as he sleeps and takes up a lot of the room.

So irritating.

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C.P.

answers from Columbia on

My honey complains that I steal all the covers...but what actually happens is that he rolls toward me and GIVES them to me!

Whenever he's out of town, the covers don't even MOVE. I sleep that still. But when he's home...I end up with the covers being so far on my side that they're touching the FLOOR!

☆.H.

answers from San Francisco on

He's very picky about how the sheets are arranged. He'll flip them up and down or pull them off me even if I'm sleeping. Grrrr!

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D.T.

answers from Muncie on

He's a twitcher, big time. Like dreaming he's running a marathon kind of twitching. The solution is x-rated, but I swear it works. If he goes long enough with out, it manifests into talking. Mostly mumbling nonsense. I usually don't let it go on for that long.

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K.M.

answers from Oklahoma City on

Mostly just that thing that doesn't count, or breathing hard. But I also don't like it when he rolls over right next to me and breathes on me while he sleeps.

In the summer, he wants the ceiling fan on high. I hate having air blowing right on me. It tickles.

We have a white noise machine and we argue about what setting to put it on. I like it as loud as possible to drown out him and the dog. He likes it quieter.

Also, I always sleep with a cover over me; blanket in winter and sheet in summer. He doesn't always want to be covered up, so he'll lay on top of the covers (instead of pushing them out of the way), making it hard for me to adjust the covers to my liking. Or if he does sleep under the covers, I like them pulled up to my chin and he likes them under his arms, so he's always pulling them off my shoulders.

If he wakes up first on the weekends and he wants me to wake up, he'll lay in bed and make noises (clear his throat, sniff/snort loudly) and move around a lot, trying to wake me up. And he must think in his sleep, because he always wakes up with two or three things on his mind that he wants to talk about right away, when I'm more a fan of waking up slowly. And quietly.

Or sometimes if he wakes up for a moment during the night, he'll reach out and rub my back or shoulders. It's a loving gesture, but it wakes me up. Just let me sleep!

Dang - I sound hard to sleep with!

:)

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S.R.

answers from Los Angeles on

Oh where do I begin.
Wants a fan blowing us right in the face all night no matter the temperature of the room (heater on, plus fan!)
Kicks his feet out of the blankets and sheets at the bottom so the blankets drag disproportionately down my side of the bed gradually over night.
Pulls the blankets at any which angle when he is cold.
Worst, often wakes up startled and confused in a dream, thinking something is wrong or someone is in the room or the walls are falling in or whatever. Scared the heck out of me in the early days, I am used to it by now.
Also weird, in the same confused dream state will decide he wants to cuddle up to randomly in the middle of the night but in a really intense, creepy, intimate way.... ew. He never remembers either of these types of dream states in the morning.

Lucy and Desi were on to something. If I could have my own bed I would sleep so good.

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S.W.

answers from Minneapolis on

My ex, in addition to snoring, has Restless Leg Syndrome. The name of this sounds mild, and people can have mild versions of this. But in his case, it meant that his legs would twitch every 20 seconds all night long, and sometimes he would pick one leg up off the bed and slam it down hard.

After I left him, he got a CPA machine, and is on medication for the RLS.

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B.B.

answers from Missoula on

Mine twits himself up in the blankets, making kind of a cocoon so that he is wrapped all the way around, and I'm left with nothing but the edge of the comforter. If I want to get any blanket back the only method I've found that works is to plant both my feet on his back and yank, hard. You would think this would wake him up, but no, he sleeps like the dead.

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J.H.

answers from Appleton on

When I toss & turn for what seems like hours, while he is asleep before his head hits the pillow!

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