Woman Is Warned Her Marriage May Be Coming to an End After Being Woken Up by Her Husband at 4 A.M.

A woman is at odds with her husband after both have struggled to sleep due to snoring.

Sharing her frustration on the U.K.-based forum Mumsnet, she recounted a “small argument” that erupted when her husband deliberately woke her at 3:13 a.m., swearing “f— sake” over her snoring.

“He knows I struggle to get back to sleep if woken at that time,” she explained, adding that both she and her husband find it difficult to settle into comfortable sleeping positions.

“He then falls back to sleep, facing away from me, but shortly rolls so that he is facing me (well, my back), and proceeds to snore into my ear for an hour, before I just call it quits and get up (at 4:20 a.m.) and get dressed,” she wrote. “Now sitting in the dining room, and I am fuming.”

The woman said this was not an isolated incident. Just the previous week, her husband had woken her multiple times.

“He sometimes gets in from work at 11 p.m. and has a bottle of wine to unwind. He then gets into bed around 3 a.m., falls into a coma, and snores loudly. But that’s ok? Seems like a huge double standard to me,” she added.

“He also has a routine for drinking on his days off, falling asleep on the sofa with the TV on, and then I have to get up at say 1 a.m., to turn everything off, then I’m woken again when he rolls into bed at 5 a.m.,” she continued.

Writing the Mumsnet post after 4 a.m., she mentioned having a “long day ahead” and that she wouldn’t be able to sleep again until 9 p.m. because of work commitments.

The post quickly drew hundreds of comments from people who could relate. Some suggested sleeping in separate rooms, while others warned that her anger might indicate deeper marital issues.

“To be honest, it sounds like the beginning of the end if you stay sleeping in the same room and resenting each other,” one commenter noted. “At least in separate rooms, you both have a chance of a good night’s sleep.”

“Separate bedrooms, and eventually separate houses, are probably the best thing for you. I don’t think there’s much of a marriage to save,” another wrote. “Sleep studies for both of you for the snoring. Get yours done even if he won’t get one done. You’ll sleep a lot better. He needs to reduce his alcohol dependence. In the short term clear off the spare bed and start using it.”

“It’s entirely reasonable to wake someone up if they’re snoring — albeit in a nicer way than he did — you can do the same for him,” a third commenter added. “But I agree separate beds are the way to go here, at least for some respite.”