Does your missus turn the light on if you're in bed?
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Yes I'm sure I'm going to receive a good kicking for this but anyway...
If I've gone to bed my missus will just come into the bedroom later, and turn her bedside lamp on and do whatever she wants to get ready for bed etc regardless of whether I was either trying to, or actually, asleep. Eg she might hang some clothes up, brush her hair, write some text messages, go in the bathroom etc etc. This can go on for quite some time eg 10-20 minutes. The lamp is a normal bedside lamp ie quite bright - you would use it if reading in bed etc.
Now I would never do that - if she's in bed I would always creep around in the dark etc and get into bed quietly. To me that would be 'normal' behaviour.
Maybe I'm losing the plot (through lack of sleep
) but we've had plenty of arguments in the past about this - I like it quiet and dark to go to sleep. She reckons I'm mad and it's perfectly normal to put on the bedside lamp 'that's what it's for' etc type argument. I don't bother saying anything now as it's just another argument.
So, breaking with best British tradition - what goes on behind your closed doors? Am I a moaning git? Is she taking liberties? Or is WW3 occurring nightly across the bedrooms of england?
If I've gone to bed my missus will just come into the bedroom later, and turn her bedside lamp on and do whatever she wants to get ready for bed etc regardless of whether I was either trying to, or actually, asleep. Eg she might hang some clothes up, brush her hair, write some text messages, go in the bathroom etc etc. This can go on for quite some time eg 10-20 minutes. The lamp is a normal bedside lamp ie quite bright - you would use it if reading in bed etc.
Now I would never do that - if she's in bed I would always creep around in the dark etc and get into bed quietly. To me that would be 'normal' behaviour.
Maybe I'm losing the plot (through lack of sleep
) but we've had plenty of arguments in the past about this - I like it quiet and dark to go to sleep. She reckons I'm mad and it's perfectly normal to put on the bedside lamp 'that's what it's for' etc type argument. I don't bother saying anything now as it's just another argument.So, breaking with best British tradition - what goes on behind your closed doors? Am I a moaning git? Is she taking liberties? Or is WW3 occurring nightly across the bedrooms of england?
What's her problem about not doing it if you've raised the point with her? Seems terribly selfish. If someone told me to be a bit more considerate I would be, or try to be, not start an argument about it.
Leave her.
Edit: but for the record, no because our bed time is the same. She gets up earlier than me and does her makeup and hair dryer-ing in another room, though.
Leave her.
Edit: but for the record, no because our bed time is the same. She gets up earlier than me and does her makeup and hair dryer-ing in another room, though.
I don't generally go to bed at the mrs, she gets up before me for work on week days so she is in bed earlier, and on weekends I prefer to play on my Xbox late into the night and get up earlier than her anyway. I do the whole stumbling about in the dark thing, though usually I just creep in, stick my phone on the charger, set the alarm and go to sleep. I'm more concerned about waking the cat up, once he is awake he creeps around, bumping into things, climbing things he shouldn't be on and making a racket until he gets put back to bed.
magic torch said:
The_Burg said:
Congratulations, you are married.
Same here. Fine for her to turn the light etc, if you do the same.... There be dragons...
Shoes... heels on, clump down the stairs, clank across the floor. Me, slippers on, shoes just by the door.
Same here. Fine for her to turn the light etc, if you do the same.... There be dragons...
Shoes... heels on, clump down the stairs, clank across the floor. Me, slippers on, shoes just by the door.
Always two sets of 'rules'.
Im up at 6:45am so the last thing I need is her waking me 5 hours before Im due up.
Lots of swearing for the first couple of days, but she got the message, or maybe it was the time when I tried to cut the power cord with a knife that gave it away.
I like to play with fire.
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