How to Survive Life in the Suburbs

How do you out smart a snorer?

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It was past 11pm. I was exhausted and finally ready to turn in. Or maybe not. How could I forget to put those wet clothes in the dryer? They will stink to high heaven by morning. Back down the stairs. Change the laundry over. Drag my butt back upstairs and into bed. Drop onto the bed and pull up the blankets. Sigh. You know those nights when your bed feels like the most comfortable place on earth?
Say goodnight to my Hubby and let my head sink slowly into the silky pile of pillows. Bliss.

Then he starts. Snork. Rattle. Grak. It sounds like my Husband is trying to suck a golf ball through a garden hose. That sound..that noise..can not be coming from the man I love dearest, but it is.
“Honey”. I whisper. “Can you please roll on your side? You are snoring”
“I am not, I wasn’t even asleep yet” Is the reply.
So much for that tactic.
I try gently prodding him. Nope
Rub his arm a little. Yeah, he swatted at me like a fly and gerfuffed, but went right back to snoring.
Shaking the bed sometimes works. Nope
Yelling his name! Not a thing..he just keeps sawing a way.
OK OK. I’ve read that if you breath at the same time as a snorer you can easily ignore it. Yeah right!
Getting close to tears now. I’m so tired!
Feet in the middle of his back and over he goes! Can not believe it. His snores did not miss a beat! What the ???

Give up. Grab a blanket, my pillow and stomp down the hall to find another soft bed to sleep in.

I need help. How on earth do you sleep with a snorer?

    • Comments

    1. I’ve learned to sleep through it. Eventually you get so exhausted by years of child rearing and housekeeping that you sleep through anything. Thunderstorms don’t even register.

    2. Oh my goodness! I can’t help with the snoring either, but sign me up for call list if you do find the cure. Although, my husband doesn’t snore per se, it’s more like…. well, like sleeping next to darth vader. UGH!!!
      Happy Sleeping.

    4. I told my boyfriend I love to hear him snore; it means we’re together. He then told me about a women he knows who recorded her husband’s snoring to show him how loud he was. After he died, she’d play the tape every night; it was the only way she could get to sleep.

    6. Hello! Thanks for visiting my blog earlier – it’s so funny you’re posting about this. My husband swore that I snored like a lumberjack when I was pregnant…which is entirely ironic because HE’s the snorer. He tends to snore when he’s on his back, so I try to shove him over when he wakes me up. Lately, with our neurotic dog in bed, he’s up more often at night and often stops himself from snoring (though he’s also in denial that he snores). Good luck!

    9. My hubs still denies every night that he snores. Its not super loud but just loud enough to be annoying. When I have had enough I just punch him in the arm or the back as hard as I can. It usually wakes him up enough to move and roll to his side. The best part is I can get some aggression out if I am ticked at him and he wakes up in the morning without remembering a thing!

    12. It’s easy for me. I am the snorer. Ugh. Mag shakes the bed, rolls me over, or plugs my nose.

      I never believed until my kid told me one weekend while Mag was away. Great.

    13. Jazzy..I will try the nose pinch.

      Suz…Can you believe he actually tears those strips off his nose in his sleep? Does not wake up. Find them on the floor the next morning! HUH?

    14. It is really tough. My hubby snores when he has to much weight on him…which is right NOW. It makes me nuts. The “breathe-right strips” do help though, have you tried them???
      I keep telling him we are too young to have separate bedrooms!!! BUT we need our sleep don’t we???

    15. Oh MM! It’s a little mean I’ve sometimes pinched their nostrils together for a couple of seconds. Something usually happens, they usually move to a non-snoring position which is a total result!

      Give it a go – what have you got to lose? I’m so grateful Lover doesn’t snore – I know how irritating it can be!