She’s Angry At Her Boyfriend For Making Her Mornings More Difficult Since He Sets Early Morning Alarms And Snoozes Them Several Times
One of the biggest adjustments you must make when living with someone is sharing your morning routine with them.
One of the hardest parts about sharing a morning routine with someone is getting used to the time they set their alarm.
One woman has been getting increasingly angry at her boyfriend, who sets his morning alarm early and snoozes it several times, making her mornings much more difficult.
She’s 24 and lives with her 29-year-old boyfriend, Mark. Mark has a job with an early morning start time of 5:00 am. So, he sets his morning alarm around 4:00 am.
However, the issue with Mark’s morning routine is that he snoozes his alarm and lets it go off several times before getting out of bed.
“I don’t get up for work until about 6:30-7:30 am, depending on when I start, so obviously, my sleep is really disturbed by this,” she said.
“Mark is an incredible boyfriend in nearly all aspects [and] he’s the man I want to marry, but he struggles with ADHD, which can make things difficult. Namely, getting out of bed is a challenge for him.”
To make matters worse, Mark doesn’t only set alarms on one device like his phone. He sets them on several devices, including his phone, Apple Watch, Apple Home, etc. Therefore, it sounds like alarms are surrounding her, and Mark never turns them off right away.
One recent morning, she counted how often Mark’s alarms went off, and they went off 12 times, which she found ridiculous.
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The situation has gotten so bad that she’s woken up feeling exhausted most mornings. Sometimes, she has to leave their bedroom and sleep on the couch to try and get at least an extra few minutes of sleep.
“He’s tried changing the tone of the alarm [and] he’s tried switching it to music I like instead of the default alarm, [but] none of it helps,” she explained.
“As soon as I’m woken up about five times by the alarm, there’s no going back to sleep for me before I need to leave for work. So, I ended up telling Mark this morning that unless he could agree to only snooze his alarm twice at a maximum and then [get up], I will have to sleep on the couch for the foreseeable future.”
When she told this, Max became super defensive and told her she should be more understanding of his condition and how getting up in the morning is difficult for him.
However, she feels he should be more understanding of her and how frustrating their mornings have been for her.
Was she wrong to tell Mark he could only snooze his alarm twice, or was it a good idea?
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