She said her husband’s habit was getting her down (Stock Image) (Image: Getty)
A woman admitted that she’d reached the end of her tether with her annoying bedtime habit – and he was refusing to do anything about it.
She said she was getting really “annoyed” by it, and it was stopping her from being able to wind down at .
The recommends that you put any devices down around an hour before you go to sleep, suggesting instead that you may want to read a book to help you decompress before dozing off.
But this woman’s husband was ignoring those suggestions, instead opting to stay up “scrolling” with the “lights on his phone”.
She fumed: “Every night when we go to bed, my husband will sit on his phone and scroll. For like an hour – a light on on his phone. I just feel like I can’t relax or sleep. It’s the little movements, light from the phone and knowing he’s up.”
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She said she had mentioned it to him, and rather than putting his phone down and trying to sleep, he opted to go and scroll downstairs and ended up sleeping on the sofa.
The woman said that she “wants to put a no device in bed rule” but wasn’t sure how he’d react to it.
“I find it really selfish,” she seethed. She fumed: “ I wouldn’t mind 5 mins but coming to bed with no intention and keeping the other person up feels so selfish to me.
“I’m just someone who can’t sleep knowing he’s awake,” she explained.
In the comments though, some people defended the man. One wrote: “You don’t see that it’s also quite selfish for you to impose a no device in bed rule because YOU don’t like it?”
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Others said that she was right, though, saying: “That would annoy me. I hate mindless scrolling. I also really value the time when my partner and I go to bed where we can chat together and drift off to sleep.”
Another disagreed with her, saying: “I don’t think you’re being unreasonable not to want to scroll on your phone yourself, or to expect him to keep the light turned right down, but you’re being unreasonable to expect him to act exactly as you do.
“Laying down ‘rules’ while in an adult relationship isn’t, I fear, overly reasonable. This sentence, particularly, is daft; ‘I’m just someone who can’t sleep knowing he’s awake’.”
Someone asked: “Could your husband relax in another room until he’s ready to sleep? I can see how the light would be annoying while trying to fall asleep.” Some questioned whether she’d be as annoyed if he was “reading a book or a kindle”.
Another commenter seethed: “Well, correct me if I’m wrong, beds are for sleeping. If he wants to scroll, he should do it downstairs.”