I’m a silent sleeper and I mean, literally. Seven years ago, I used to sleeping alone, where solitude is found only in sleeping, or so I believe. Like me, most women would bet for a quiet room just to sleep. But did you know that few women could complete an 8-hour sleep in a day and that most of us could get around 4-6 hours day? Credit it to so multitasking capabilities but comforting and quality sleep may be elusive most of the time. And for one to have a sound sleep, I'd say many would compromise a lot just to fall asleep soundly.
That was me seven years after. Snoring isn't something I'm amused about but I find it ridiculously annoying when I can't sleep because of snoring. What if you're married to someone who can't help but to snore whenever he's asleep?
Name it and yes, I was deprived of my silent sleeping moment during our first year together. In fact, I barely get quality sleep as soon as I hear the so-loud snoring, I couldn't sleep anyhow and it takes a while for me to pummel my body (so to speak) just for me to invite my chinky eyes to finally drop. At times, I’d wake up in the middle of the night and yank him out of his senses just to prevent him from snoring repeatedly. The result is more annoying as I’d just exhaust myself just like a guard on her post watching over someone from his deep sleep.
Until I gave up on my guarding night task. I finally get used to the sound but snoring didn't leave my attention at all. I realized that there are researches made about snoring and this also means keeping ourselves vigilant over the extremely deep sleep along with that loud snoring.
The best part is that no matter how much I hated loud snoring, it’s this sound that comforts my night. How? Well, after a year or two of adjustment to married life, I realized accepting not just the partner's strengths that could make marriage life work. Simple and annoying weaknesses like snoring, burping and some less-casual mannerisms can sometimes push our patience to the edge but these are actually the spices of daily married life that we can't live without.
In fact, I can't even sleep without me hearing the sound of that familiar snore, that of my husband's. And literally, hearing and sleeping with that sound "on" gives me inner peace knowing that he's sound asleep with me, in our room and not anywhere else like the other husbands I know of. Yes, snoring is one of the ugly truth we know of, but would you agree that this ugly truth is somehow comforting for wives like me?
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