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Sleep-Divorcing My Husband Was The Best Thing I Ever Did
Why do couples need to sleep in the same bed when both are miserable?
I roll over in bed and sigh heavily. The time on my phone says 2am.
Beside me, my husband is fast asleep. I look at him enviously as the force of his snores shake the foundation of our house.
How can you sleep so well? I yell at him in my head.
His response is to roll over, stick his face two inches from mine and snore, open-mouthed, directly into my eye.
Lovely.
Irritated now, and wide awake, I sit up in bed. As my husband’s snores get louder and louder, my annoyance grows.
Shut up! I glare at him in the darkness. Just shut up!
He of course does not.
I sit awake for yet another night, pondering how nice it would be to get a full night’s sleep.
My husband’s snoring didn’t always bother me. In fact, for a five-year span, I actually thought he had stopped snoring.
But that all changed when we had a baby.
For the first eight months of our son’s life, he was awake, on average, every 45 minutes through the night. To my husband’s credit, he would take the shift…
