The War of Sleep
I have been married to my wife for 15 years. The most common thing we fight about is the TV in the bedroom. I never had one in my bedroom growing up (except for a summer or two). She had one on constantly in her room growing up. Our first house we had a TV in the bedroom, because we had extra TVs from consolidating things. She has works for the government so has to be at work at 9 and has a short commute. I have to be at work at 8, a lot of times, and have had commutes over an hour half the time. I have also had to travel extensively for long durations throughout the country with, of course, early alarm times of 3:30 a.m., etc. This problem has even been brought up in therapy, the therapist even seeming surprised that she would continually disrupt my sleep when I ask her not to. PLUSssss, when I go to the gym I wake up at 5:20 a.m. and I HAVE to have 8 hours of sleep, so I have to be asleep by 9:20 and not be woken up. And I am a light sleeper. She is ...