My wife has a habit of falling asleep on the couch. She is a very heavy sleeper. When we sit down to watch TV she always tells me to wake her up to go to bed so she can take her medicine.
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Well, 90% of the time when I try to wake her up she just tells me “5 more minutes” several times for a couple of hours. Sometimes it even gets past midnight before I can get her up. I am exhausted from the day and want to sleep too. So the last time this happened I tried to get her up for about an hour 1/2. She just got annoyed when I tried. So when 11:30 rolled around I just went to bed. The next morning she was furious.
I’m genuinely curious if I’m in the wrong here.
Here are what netizen thinks:
- Maybe I and her need to move the TV or get a small TV for the bedroom… maybe that will help her sleep?
Perhaps the background noise helps her sleep, my grandma is the same (so you do not need to turn off the TV when trying to wake her or leave it on?)
Also its not fair that you, you have to be accountable to wake her up so she can take her medicine. Her meds, her responsibility and its nice that you have been helping but you also gotta take care of your health (getting enough sleep). She should set an alarm, or alarms, that are very loud to wake her up/remind her at or around the same time daily.
- I used to fall asleep on the sofa all the time and it caused no end of stress between me and my husband. We got a TV for the bedroom and it has changed our lives!
- she needs to chill, like take a seat as in back off and calm yourself. You tried and she can be responsible for getting herself up she is an adult. I fall asleep on the couch and when my husband wakes me up I move to the bed or stay on the couch. It’s not his responsibility to force me to move it’s just kind of him to try
- She needs to go to bed earlier or accept she will be on the sofa. It’s not your responsibility to continually unsuccessfully try and wake her. Tell her in future you’re trying once then throwing a blanket on her and going to bed. NTA.