Sleeping without SO- inspired by Teens sharing bed thread

[Bob Slydell]

Heck, I'll sleep anywhere. Bed, to me, is wherever my head lands.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Heck, I'll sleep anywhere. Bed, to me, is wherever my head lands.

Spoken just like a man!!!

My DH can fall asleep anywhere, even sitting up. Tonight he's going to a business dinner and broadway show in NYC. I told him to sleep on the train because otherwise I can picture him falling asleep during the play with the executives that he's going with. Don't think his boss would forgive him for that one!

 

[Nancy]

I agree. But if you want to sleep with SO then get the teens a second connecting room and that way they get their own be too.

Personally, I don't want to sleep with my DH or my kids when I'm on vacation...those beds are WAY TOO SMALL! I can't stand being touched when I'm trying to sleep and I absolutely hate someone breathing on me...and lets not even talk about feet touching me!

We have a king size bed at home and I sleep as close to the edge as possible to avoid having DH's feet anywhere near me.

 

[Marseeya]

I love my DH with all my heart and he's so wonderful to be next to -- warm and soft and cuddly. But I sleep so much better without him there.

I like sleeping with DD once in a while. It reminds me of when she was a baby, and she still even sucks in her sleep too! It's adorable.

 

[puffkin]

I'll never forget our honeymoon. We spent one night (July 4th) at the Pop Century before transferring over to the Poly. We were in the MK all day and we had a problem with our first room (smoking, awful smell, took them awhile to find us a new room). We were exhausted when we got to our new room. Took one look at those teeny tiny beds and said "which one do you want? I got the other....." We still joke about it............

 

[HOGFAN]

Me - dark and quiet

dh-lights on, tv going, snores,legs shake

we are both happier in separate rooms. have been for 2 years. of course he thinks it cuts down on the and hes probably right, but I cant sleep with him.

 

[T1130]

I too love to have the bed all to myself. That way I don`t have to play tug of war with the blanket.

 

[FreshTressa]

When we travel, we always sleep girls in one bed, boys in the other.

Not that I care that they sleep together, but it is kind of a special thing for the kids to sleep with mom and dad.

 

[Wishing on a star]

Oh man!!! You have had your son sleep with you and admit it on the DIS!!!!!!!!!!!! Put on your flame-proof suit!!!!!

Ummmmm, I guess I don't even believe this comment!!! This was apparantly when the son was a little kid... Now that he is older, it said that he wouldn't want to sleep with her.

Now, give me a poster who sleeps with her adolescent boy... and then I think the flames would begin!!! (and with good reason!!!!) Talk about your Freudian issues.

 

[va32h]

My husband is in the military, so he is gone all the time. At one point, we did not sleep in the same bed together for 14 months. Clearly I did not shrivel up and die from the experience.

I do like sleeping with my spouse next to me, but it is not the end of the world if I can't. We are affectionate and close in many other ways. Over the ten years we've been married we've shared our bed with a dog, a cat, anywhere from one to three sick, cranky, or scared-of-thunder children. Some day they will all grow up, my husband will retire, and we'll have plenty of years to sleep undisturbed.

One thing I do like about dh being gone - no alarm clock going off at 6, and every 9 minutes after that, when he hits the snooze button.

 

[skiwee1]

Ummmmm, I guess I don't even believe this comment!!! This was apparantly when the son was a little kid... Now that he is older, it said that he wouldn't want to sleep with her.

Now, give me a poster who sleeps with her adolescent boy... and then I think the flames would begin!!! (and with good reason!!!!) Talk about your Freudian issues.

I really think Disney Doll was kidding as she is on the side of the mom with the teens. She was being sarcastic.

 

[KAMLEM]

OP from other thread here...I can't believe how judgemental some people are. This is a vacation for us as well as the kids and we choose not to sleep apart. It has nothing to do with attachment issues. We just prefer not too. Obviously, if we had no other choice we would do so just to keep the kids from bickering. The point was that we do have options and I was only asking how other parents handled it. BTW, I have been married 19 years......

In this post you make it sound as if it's not a big deal whether you sleep with DH or not but I think that some people reacted the way that they did because in the other thread you didn't come across that way. Your exact words were "Nope, not an option. I have to have DH next to me!" You can't blame others for assuming that you are putting yourself before your children when you make comments like this.

 

[Am_I_There_Yet]

My DH is a firefighter, so I'm without him every 48 hours, whether I like it or not. BUT - when he's here and we've had a tiff, and he goes off to pout, I can not sleep until he's back in bed with me.

Tonight I have to sleep alone and I watched, "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" last night.

 

[Micca]

I have spent too many nights tossing/turning/disturbing DW's sleep, so it's no big deal for me to go to the couch so we can both get some rest.

 

[Kitty 34]

DH and I work almost opposite shifts so we sleep in different rooms so not to disturb each other.

 

[KarenAylwood]

OK, so not DH but live-in DBF. When we lived apart last year and he'd come visit the only reason I'd look forward to him leaving was so I could have my big bed back to myself

But now that we live together I have a hard time not having him in the bed with me. I can't fall asleep without him there... but that is usually because he's out late studying and I'm worried about him getting in late or something.

I think my issue isn't with having to have his elbow in my face and his knee in my side, it's that I am not settled unless he's there. If we had kids and were in a hotel room together, I'd have no problem sleeping with one kid and him sleeping with the other... he'd be in the room!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I agree with you OP!

 

[aprilgail2]

Personally, I don't want to sleep with my DH or my kids when I'm on vacation...those beds are WAY TOO SMALL! I can't stand being touched when I'm trying to sleep and I absolutely hate someone breathing on me...and lets not even talk about feet touching me!

We have a king size bed at home and I sleep as close to the edge as possible to avoid having DH's feet anywhere near me.

I am exactly like that!! I hate sleeping with anyone touching me...I hate having an arm draped over me when I am trying to sleep...I want my own space and own breathing room, I don't like anyone laying next to me blowing their hot sleeping breath onto my head.

 

[2sweetangels]

I am so use to sleeping in bed without DH, he is an over the road truck drivier and gone for days at a time, so i got use to sleeping alone, plus I love to have the queen size bed to myself usually my girls and I pile up on the bed and take naps together and sometimes one of my girl's will sleep with me at night only when they are having a bad night and can't sleep.

 

[FreshTressa]

I don't like sleeping alone

Sometimes I bring a kid into bed with me just to have someone to snuggle. That or the dog, lol.

I don't sleep as well alone.