By LabasSouslesEtoiles • Score: 618 • April 5, 2025 6:08 AM
My husband's snoring is like an earthquake, it shakes the walls. At home, we have separate bedrooms because of it, and even with several walls between us I still need noise-cancelling earphones to sleep soundly. We are visiting his family, where we have to share a bed to sleep. Every time we visit, it ends up the same way, with him happily snoring the night away and me unable to sleep all night. Since he is IMPOSSIBLE to deal with after he's fallen asleep (meaning that even forcefully waking him up only leads to him getting angry at me, rolling over then going right back to sleep, he has never even ONCE decided to stay awake or leave the bedroom to let me sleep), I decided that this time I'm not taking chances, and I demanded that he sleeps on the floor outside of the bedroom while I get the bed. Only fair, I think, since EVERY TIME I am the one who is forced to take a pillow and blanket and sleep in an uncomfortable pile on the floor - and every morning after, he acts like I was the unreasonable one for leaving the bedroom instead of "sleeping through it."
Before we went to visit his family this time, he promised endlessly that this time I wouldn't end up sleeping on the floor. He said that his snoring got better (it really didn't) and he promised that he'd stay up much longer than me to give me time to already be soundly asleep by the time he went to bed so I wouldn't be kept awake by his snoring. I strongly insisted that we get an air mattress at least since I knew that I'd inevitably end up on the floor again, knowing him, and he very strongly refused, he even had the gall to get offended at my suggestion, and he berated me about being pessimistic and how it hurts his feelings to hear I don't trust him, etc.
Well guess what? We're at his parents' place now, it's barely midnight, and my husband yawned and announced he was tired and was going to go to bed early. I pulled him aside and reminded him that he promised he'd stay up late to allow me to sleep a bit for once. He shrugged and was all like "Oh yeah, but it's whatever, don't worry I promise I won't snore." I said that I would allow him to go to bed early, but that ON MY MOTHER'S LIFE if he is snoring by the time I'm coming into the room, I wouldn't even attempt to sleep by his side, I would leave the house, get a hotel for the night, and serve him with divorce papers first thing in the morning.
His "it's cool, chiiiill" attitude immediately turned to panic and he begged me not to do anything rash and that he is so sorry and that he can't control his snoring. I told him, he can't control his snoring but he CAN control whether he respects me and whether he keeps his promises, and he just willfully chose to break his promise to me and in doing so, he showed how little he respects me. He was panicking and freaking out on me and repeatedly begging me to please be reasonable. So, I went into the bedroom, I grabbed a pillow and one blanket, I led him to the spot on the floor where I sleep every single time we visit his family because it's the only spot far enough to not hear his snoring, and I told him he could go to bed there, on the floor, if he wanted to still be a married man tomorrow morning. He told me I couldn't be serious, I reminded him that his shitty snoring and his shitty attitude about his snoring forced ME to sleep in that spot many times - and that every time we come here it's for HIS sake because we are visiting HIS family, and I'm sick of being sacrificed at the altar of him not giving a fuck about how his snoring affects the people around him. I also reminded him that I insisted we get an air mattress for the poor sod - usually ME - who's forced to sleep on the floor because of his snoring, and HE WAS THE ONE WHO CATEGORICALLY REFUSED. Suddenly, he did want an air mattress and regretted saying no, what a surprise. He was like a sad puppy but he complied.
Currently in the bedroom, I can tell he's not asleep because I'd be hearing his muffled snoring through the walls so I guess he's discovering for the first time just how fucking uncomfortable I was all the times he forced me to sleep on the floor. I really hope he learns a lesson from this and, in the future, accepts reasonable accommodations instead of asserting that he will "just" magically not snore for one night. I understand he's got a lot of self-esteem and ego issues regarding his snoring, he feels bad about it and he deals with those feelings by putting it all out of his mind and acting as if he didn't snore at all, but I am the one who has to deal with the Cat 5 hurricane noises coming out of him whenever he is asleep. AITAH?
EDIT: I addressed it in the comments but this is the one thing people seem to want to comment on, so:
I know he needs a sleep study and a CPAP machine. He actively refuses it. He won't even mention the snoring to his doctor. It's an ego thing for him, he does not want to address the issue because it'd make him feel bad to admit how bad it's been all along. We had countless spats about it, it is one of, if not THE biggest problem in our marriage. I begged him, tried to reason with him, brought up statistics and facts about sleep apnea, the works - he is NOT INTERESTED, and he's a grown ass adult, I can't force him to go to a clinic if he refuses. He always has excuses why he won't get his snoring checked out - he always ends up implying if not outright saying that the problem is not that his snoring is bad but rather that I am an exceptionally light sleeper and he's the one giving ME leeway with my "sleep problems" rather than admitting he's the one with a medical issue. Even recording him snoring doesn't work, it just anger him and he refuses to accept it's what his snoring actually sounds like, he accused me of editing the audio and cranking up the decibels just to make him feel bad. I know he needs a sleep study, HE REFUSES IT WITH THE STUBBORNNESS OF A 8YO CHILD AT THE DENTIST'S.
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