Today, I realized for the last year that my husband has been home from Iraq, I haven't gotten more than a few hours of sleep at night. Not because he gets nightmares, but because he now snores so loud that the pets sleep at the other end of the house to get rest. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, and for the past four years, the only time my husband stops snoring while asleep is so that he can fart. FML
Today, after a very poor night's sleep, I've had to stay awake and do housework while my husband, who slept like a baby last night, keeps on sleeping because he "didn't sleep well." He was snoring all night long, the reason I didn't sleep well. FML
Today, my fiancé, my two-year-old, and my dog are all sleeping peacefully next to me in our new king-sized memory foam bed. It's 2:15 in the morning. Why am I not sleeping? Because they all snore, one right after the other. It's like an endless song of snoring. FML
Today, my cat has made a habit of waking me and my husband up every morning by meowing in front of our bedroom door until we get up. This morning, I finally got her to stop, so I went back to bed hoping to sleep in for a while… Only to be kept awake by my husband’s snoring. FML
Today, my husband sent me a short video of my snoring last night because I wanted to hear how bad I sound. The first few seconds went by OK, but for the rest of the clip I could barely hear anything else over the sound of my husband taking a long piss in our bathroom. FML
Today, between my cats scratching every surface they can find, my boyfriend's snoring, and the dog barking at every slight noise outside, I'm unlikely to ever get more than 3 hours of sleep at a time. FML
Today, after struggling for hours to fall asleep with my husband's rather rattling snoring, I finally managed to drop off… only to be rudely awakened an hour later by my husband elbowing me in the face in his sleep. FML
Today, after months of living with my roommate's horrific snoring, I looked over to see her sleeping quietly. Elated that I might actually get a full night of rest for once, I went to bed. Just as my eyelids began to droop, she started making vile hissing sounds. Yes, hissing. FML
Today, after barely sleeping all week, I tried some ASMR videos to help me fall asleep. Both my dogs and my husband are out cold, snoring so loud I can't even hear the ASMR. FML
Today, it's 2am. I've been trying to get to sleep for the past two hours next to my snoring boyfriend. Every time I nudge him to shut him up, his body tenses, he farts, then goes straight back to snoring. FML
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Freeze_fml 17
What a bummer for you. It's not like he could have been killed in Iraq or anything.
Spyrunner 0
Sleeping together is never easy.
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Comments (109)
voice_of_reasonx 0
you should be grateful he CAME back from Iraq. I know countless widows who would give anything to have your "problem"
piercedpretty 0
Exactly, that's what I'm saying...
zaiden 0
Okay, well first of all, people shouldn't actually be saying that their husbands or whoever had been posted to Iraq, because it's confidentiality, and only stupid people would give it away. Second of all: People, give her a break, she's not complaining like it's the end of the world. We all complain about snorers, so don't get all worked up over it, jesus. My dad snores like hell and it's hard to get any shut-eye at all, but we all deal anyway, and do you know how hard it is to convince half of the people that snore to actually go see a doctor?
Recon25 0
There is nothing wrong with saying that someone was deployed, is deployed, or is getting deployed. It becomes unacceptable when you post specific locations, operations, missions, personnel numbers, or anything of that sensitive nature. It's pretty pretentious to call someone stupid when you don't know what you're talking about yourself.
BLNovelist 0
Besides what Recon said, I'd also want to point out the fact that even if random people here say their spouse was deployed - what is knowing SexyBabyGirl204845's husband was deployed going to hurt? I mean, seriously. I doubt that's going to help terrorists or what-have-you in any way.
zaiden 0
I do know what I'm talking about, considering my brother in law is actually in the airforce. So don't give me that shit. Second of all, yes you can say they've been deployed, but you are NOT to say where. Even the country. So save your crap for someone else.
misssjesssica13 0
STFU if he was in iraq and you weren't im pretty sure he has better things to think about than how loud he snores. get over it bitch.
piercedpretty 0
I agree with #96. Shut up, you should just be happy he's home. After my husband's first deployment he started flinging around in his sleep and would often whack me in the face. Once he hit me so hard I thought he had broken my nose, but I never complained about it. He's gone right now and I would give anything to wake up to his hand in my face.
zaiden 0
I think you're being a bit over the top here. Don't tell her to shut up. She's just voicing her opinion, it's not like she's saying she wants to kill him for it. Of course she's happy he's home, give her a break. My brother in law had a spaz, because of post trauma. And it was difficult, yeah, you don't see me complaining about it, but that's completely different to snoring anyway. She's not having a bitch, she was just stating what has happened.
piercedpretty 0
My point is that she should just be grateful that he's home safe and sound. And, just so you know, you sound like a complete idiot comparing your experiences with your brother-in-law to those of us with spouses in the Military...Unless, of course, you live with your BIL and have a close, intimate relationship with him, you have no idea what it's like. So yeah, you can shut up too.
ZombieKitteh 8
lady this isn't herpes, you're talking about snoring. Look around the net, it can be stopped.
mrs_franklin 0
Dude ur effin stupid at least he's home safely u shouldn't be bitching he could gave died then u would be happy 2 hear his snoring>:/
simsimma88 0
I think he deserves to snore. I doubt he got that much painful sleep in Iraq so why not let him sleep his ass off
Squygm 7
There's no reason to be a story topper and say your husband having ptsd is worse so she should shut up. Its her life. And snoring can be caused by stress, drinking, etc, so you don't know if that's something that concerns her.
attaboy368 20
he should really make a doc appt...thank him for serving his country and thank you for your sacrifices as the spouse as well
sugarbear0727 19
My boyfriend was if Afghanistan for a year, before I met him, but I've noticed that he doesn't sleep very well. It takes him hours to fall asleep, and most of the time he wakes up in the middle of the night and watches TV or plays a game because he can't go back to sleep. Be thankful he's only snoring. Get nasal strips, or go see a doctor.