After reading Peter’s rant on bedmaking earlier this week, I feel inspired to share some of my own thoughts on the subject of sleeping. Mike, like Peter, doesn’t like the sheets tucked in at the end. He wants to be able to tuck all the covers under his feet. Which, to me, is practically demonic. (But, then, I can sleep with my socks on, so what do I know?) As I am the one who makes the bed, my desires have prevailed. And Mike has gotten over his wretched habit of destroying all the bedcovers. He still has a tendency to take his half of the bed from the middle, but I am working on [beating] that [out of him] as well.
Speaking of sleeping with socks, sometimes Mike goes to bed with socks on. That’s fine . . . in the winter, I also like to sleep while wearing socks. No problem. Except, wait. There is a problem. Mike never wakes up in the morning still wearing his socks. He kicks them off during the night and leaves them in the end of the bed. There were times early in our marriage when I was not aware of his midnight sock aversion. I would pull the sheets off the bed at the end of the week only to find 10 or 12 socks piled up. We would then have discussions where I would say incredibly logical things like, “Why would you wear socks to bed if you know you are just going to kick them off?” He would respond with “But my feet were cold!” So on and so forth.
We have reached a happy compromise. Mike rarely wears his socks to bed now, and if he does kick them off, I am allowed to give him the evil eye of death, which I do quite well, if I say so myself. Meanwhile, I allow him to put his cold feet on me during the night (he wasn’t kidding – the boy has cold feet). See, boys and girls? Marriage is all about compromise.
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OH MY GOSH! Mike spleeps with the sheets under his feet! I DO TOO! Yay for finding out that there is another demon-man out there!
Oh, Adam. And I always thought you were such a nice boy.
Two links in one post! Hibbidy-hoo!!
And I’m afraid for then I get married, I flop and writhe around in my sleep. It’s gonna get ugly.
Mike used to thrash about during his sleep as well. You could say that I also beat that out of him, but I prefer to think that he is much calmer and sleeps more peacefully now that we are so happily married.
I have no annoying sleep habits.
I am the perfect sleeper.
1. Socks-on-at-bedtime and socks-off-in-the-morning both make perfect sense. When his feet are cold, he has socks on. When his feet become warm, he takes his socks off. Cut the guy some slack.
2. Gretchen takes either 20% of the bed or 80% of the bed because HER HEAD MUST BE ON THE EDGE OF HER PILLOW, FACING AWAY FROM THE PILLOW. So she’s either at the far edge of the bed facing the wall (away from me), or firmly entrenched in the middle of the bed and facing me, which leaves me with about four inches of bed left. It’s maddening.
3. I snore. So I guess I’m maddening to her as well, which makes us even. Almost eight years of marriage (2,902 nights sleeping together, give or take), and we have partially changed our habits out of respect for the other and partially learned to give a lot of grace during the night. Plus having a comfy couch as a backup plan doesn’t hurt.
Sometimes I kick my socks off at night, but I kick them out of the bed. No socks stuck at the end of the bed. Those are the rules. hehehe.
I sleep with sheets between my legs and under my feet. I rarely wear socks to bed, thats what the sheet is for.
sleep with the covers not tucked in at the end? and with socks? that’s insane!