VENT: My Biggest Pet Peeve (Man-Related)

LeeAndra

Sweet Shoppe SugarBabe
Prologue: I need a lot of sleep. Like 9 hours' worth. Which I never get. So I'm perpetually tired. Oh, and I'm a night owl.

Story: Out of nowhere, BF says last night at 11 that he's going to bed RIGHT NOW and asks me to please turn off the TV/lights when I go to bed. [insert eyeroll here] He stood up to get something else to eat from the kitchen... and allasudden, he's Mr. Bedtime. Okay, whatever. We both go to bed, but it's 11, and I'm not really that tired. No cuddling, either, as BF is rolled over, back towards me, all the way at the end of his side of the kingsize bed. I lie in bed, trying to be still so that he can sleep, until I finally fall asleep around 11:30.

I'm in the middle of a deep deep REM sleep when I feel someone touching me. No, this is not BF using his signature move, affectionately coined by me 'the honk and stick,' but just rubbing my arm and back. By the time I am awake enough to be aware of what is going on around me and trying to figure out if BF is sleepubbing me, he's again rolled over on his side of the bed... but now I'm awake again. WTF?!

It's now past midnight and I can't get to sleep and it's now too hot, so I wander out to the living room couch (where it is much cooler) and fall asleep abt 15 minutes after THAT. We're talking 12:30, people, when I am AGAIN awoken by BF shouting my NAME and looking down at me from above. WTF?! Is this normal protocol when you see your GF asleep on a couch!? To scream her name to wake her up and then when she tries to sleepily explain that she has insomnia to stomp off and say, 'Whatever. Have fun.'?!

At 5 am, BF's cell phone alarm goes off which I can hear from the living room. He's insisting that he's going to start a morning running routine, but has yet to make it out of bed before 7:30. His alarm goes off every FIFTEEN MINUTES for the next hour. THIS IS MY BIGGEST MAN PET PEEVE EVER. Ugh. It is one thing to set your alarm and hit snooze when you live alone, but it is QUITE ANOTHER when someone else is in the house and doesn't fall back asleep in 3 seconds like you do and has to be at work before you do in the mornings!! :cursing: I would fall asleep for 3-4 minutes in between cycles where I'd start having the same trippy dream over and over again that I was awake in my dream and then the alarm would go off and I'd really be awake, etc.

OMG, I almost screamed when I finally rolled out of bed at 6 to get in the shower. My alarm is set for 6:30, but what was the point?! BF, who works from home, was STILL IN BED when I left his apt at 7:15.

Epilogue: I shall have to kill him tonight when I get home from work. And then go to my own house to sleep.
 
Boyz r dum :p

That sucks LA!! I don't do well with being shouted at (just had a convo wtih DF about that last night in fact), and would've kick him in the balls.
 
OMG...I HATE THAT! Seriously! My hubby does it too...turns the alarm on for 5:30 and doesn't actually get up until 6:30. Some mornings I don't even hear it, and if I do, I just whack him and he hits snooze. But then some mornings, it wakes me up and I can't go back to sleep.

I don't work during the week...I'm just home with the kids. So I don't NEED to be up this early. And yet...today I was up at 6 am, even though HE didn't get up until 6:30 because of his obnoxious alarm clock habits.

At least I've been able to convince him to set one of the alarms on ours for me for 7 am for Mason's school days. Before this, he'd have BOTH alarms going off for himself, and our alarm clock is every 9 minutes instead of every 15, so he'd have them going off every 4-5 frigging minutes for AN HOUR!

Oh, and as for him waking you up on the couch, I woulda given him a nice kick in the nuts for that. LMAO! Guys are so self-absorbed...they make me insane!
 
Like Col, I'd have kicked him in the nads. I keep the alarm on my side of the bed, and MAKE him get up! Grrrr! How inconsiderate! If DH woke me up, he knows he would be dealing with a crazy b*tch for the rest of the day, possibly week.

Side note: I also slept on the couch due to snoring.
 
LOL My dh drives me nuts in the mornings too. He gets up at 5 a.m. But he doesn't hear the alarm. So the alarm goes off, I nudge him and wake him up and then try to fall back asleep. (Usually I get up at 6:30) So then he proceeds to the bathroom which has that row of big light bulbs over the mirror that glares directly at the bed. Doesn't shut the door. Then after he showers and stuff he sits on the edge to begin the monumental task of putting his boots on , shaking the bed all over the place with the light in the bathroom STILL on. So ummm yeah I started getting up at 5 a.m. sometimes too because like you said, what's the point? And that extra 1 1/2 hours of sleep is usually the sweetest because HE goes to bed at like 8 p.m. while I am still cleaning up from dinner, finishing up work, the kids, their homework, all that. He'll just get up right after dinner and go to bed. So he sleeps from like 8-5 and I don't go to bed till around 11. Men are MEAN. I think I'll kill mine tonight too! or we could do that criss cross thing like in Throw Mama From The Train, rofl.
 
What a butthead. :mad:

My DH "yells" at me when I'm asleep too. Drives me nuts. If I fall asleep in my chair or on the couch, instead of coming over and gently shaking me to wake me up he stands across the room and says my name really LOUD. WTF is up with that? I don't do that to him. As for the alarm, we both pretty much get up at the same time except for on my days off so that's not a huge problem. But the yelling to wake me up just really pisses me off... STOOPID MEN!!!
 
Thank God I am a hard sleeper in the morning! Getting there is usually a trial but I hear NOTHING when he leaves.... Thank God... I usually awake to my children doing things to my body! Yesterday it was an ice cold bottle of Pepsi and "Mom, will please give me a drink of this before I die" Today was a box of yellow death(Kraft dinner) abeing shaken in my ear and my little one begging me to cook it at 6 am for breakfast! LOL Oh the joys of family life! LOL
 
My hubby snoozes 3 times EVERY morning!! I am a pretty light sleeper and lately the baby has been awake when he's waking up but man it's annoying! lol
 
I am the lightest sleeper and I hate it when someone wakes me up at night! My DH knows better than to try to touch or talk to me when I'm asleep, and since he snores, he spends most nights banished to the other room anyway!!! I think a nap is in order for you today!
 
Dude. I would have kicked him in the balls.

Jeff does that alarm thing too.. only the alarm thing is on MY side of the bed, so I have to hit him and then hit the snooze. So annoying.
 
My DH can be stupid too.
Lately our animals (a dog and 2 cats) have been waking us up in the middle of the night to either eat or go outside to potty, because we usually keep them in our bedroom at night. So I complained about this the other day...that I have to be the one to always get up. His reply to me was that if I would just wake him up, he'd take care of it.
FF to two nights ago at 3am, and I had to get up at 4am for work. (keep in mind, DH doesnt get up til 6:30)

Dog: <whine, whine> this went on for about 20 mins
Me: Honey, the dog needs to go out.
DH: mumble mumble
Me: Hey...the dog needs to go out, you said you'd do it this time and she's been whining for 20 mins.
DH: I haven't heard her.
Me: Thats because you've been ASLEEP! I have to get up in an hour. Please take her out!
DH: She's ok, she's just upset about the weather.
Me: WHAT WEATHER!? It's not doing anything outside. Get up and take her out!
DH: She's FINE! I didnt hear her do anything!
Me: You were asleep jerkoff! Take her out before she pees on the floor. I'm not getting up, I have to be up in an hour and I'm TIRED!
DH: Come here...come here Angel...lay down by daddy. (talking to the dog)
Dog: (comes over to dh) <whine whine>
Me: (ripping the covers off, sighing really loud and opening the bedroom door violently) You're a jerk!

Last night he started mouthing off to me about how hard it was for me to get up. Being really sassy and crap.
I said: I friggin birthed THREE kids for you and got up with them at all hours of the night to feed and change their diapers. YOU didn't have to do that because you were always deployed. Get a grip and take the dog out once or twice. It wont kill you.


Men are friggin idiots.
 
WORD, Mandy.

Cookie would not only take the dog out, but he'd serenade YOU back to sleep after he came back in.
 
When DH used to sleep in my room (he now sleeps in the basement because of his snoring) he used to set his alarm for 6 then keep hitting snooze until 6:45. I kept telling him that I don't fall back asleep after the alarm first goes off so I pretty much get up at 6 for no reason every frickin' day! Now he does what he wants, he's 2 levels down, so I can't hear a thing he does and I don't get out of bed until almost 7 every day. :D
 
I'm praying that Jordan doesn't somehow randomly start snoring like his father does. He's AWFUL. He would definitely have to sleep downstairs, lol.

Mandy I'd totally kick his a$$. Or pray that the dog peed on him.
 
I'm going to duck after I say this... but I'm the snooze Queen in this house! LOL... I'm such a deep sleeper that I snooze without knowing it ( vand my snooze is motion activated). It drives my DH so crazy that I'm no longer aloud to use the alarm clock... he sets his alarm and then wakes me up and goes back to sleep!
 
Well my hubby does the same thing for a while he was setting the alarm for 4:30 and then hitting snooze till the time I got up at 6:15 then he would ask me to wake him up at 6:30. That really pissed me off. The thing that really bothers me though is when I fall asleep on the couch, we sit on different couches at night, and he comes over and stares at me until I wake up, oh that really makes me mad, he knows I hate when he does that and you would think after 8 years he would stop doing it but no, every night he does this because every night I am so tired after working and taking care of our daughter that I can't even stay up, but then when he goes to bed it is like I am wide awake and can't get to sleep, so then I start watching tv.

Rachel
 
I must have the freak man in the group!!

He is so a morning person and I am not!! In the morning is usually up around 5:30 (I have no idea why cause he doesn't have to work until 8). He has his watch set to beep at 5:30 but he is usually up before it goes off and he leaves the room quietly and closes the door on his way out!!

He only irrates me on occasion (which always seems to be the days I have to work early) to wake me up in the wee hours of the morning for little some'm some'm!! Drives me nuts!! He never does it on days that I don't have to work and I can roll over and go back to sleep....LOL!!
 
Lord..none of that is normal at all LA!! Kick him in the knees and weiner next time he wakes you up k?
 
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