We usually just stay in the same bed. If he was working and I was really sick I'd sleep elsewhere though, bc he'd have to get ready here and he also can't just call in sick.
Ok douche, go ahead and call it mud. My husband DID have halitosis. We addressed it after I talked to you girls on here and guess what? Years later, no problem. Mofongo, you're a cunt. Eat shit. ~anonnamus
Some people responding here don't have sleep issues and it shows.
im amazed at how many people have guest rooms. Of the 14 places I’ve lived in my life, only one had a guest room (ages 4-7).
I haven’t even lived somewhere with a couch large enough for an adult to sleep on since childhood (small furniture is what fits our smaller house and our previous apartments).
The only reason we have a guest room is because we are empty nesters now. Before the kids moved out, I would sleep on the couch when necessary.
We don't sleep separately due to illness. I guess maybe if one person was super restless the other might sleep on the couch or something but it's not a guaranteed thing.
Some people responding here don't have sleep issues and it shows.
im amazed at how many people have guest rooms. Of the 14 places I’ve lived in my life, only one had a guest room (ages 4-7).
I haven’t even lived somewhere with a couch large enough for an adult to sleep on since childhood (small furniture is what fits our smaller house and our previous apartments).
Ok douche, go ahead and call it mud. My husband DID have halitosis. We addressed it after I talked to you girls on here and guess what? Years later, no problem. Mofongo, you're a cunt. Eat shit. ~anonnamus
My husband has slept downstairs in a chair when he’s sick before but thankfully neither of us have been sick for 4-5 years. He’s had to sleep on a blow up mattress after surgery before which was awkward but we have a tall bed and no guest room. He is much better at sleeping anywhere than I am even if he is congested. We also don’t have a long enough sofa to sleep on. Old, small house problems
im amazed at how many people have guest rooms. Of the 14 places I’ve lived in my life, only one had a guest room (ages 4-7).
I haven’t even lived somewhere with a couch large enough for an adult to sleep on since childhood (small furniture is what fits our smaller house and our previous apartments).
im amazed at how many people have guest rooms. Of the 14 places I’ve lived in my life, only one had a guest room (ages 4-7).
I haven’t even lived somewhere with a couch large enough for an adult to sleep on since childhood (small furniture is what fits our smaller house and our previous apartments).
No kids 🤷🏼♀️.
And we don’t live in one of the highest COL areas in the country lol
im amazed at how many people have guest rooms. Of the 14 places I’ve lived in my life, only one had a guest room (ages 4-7).
I haven’t even lived somewhere with a couch large enough for an adult to sleep on since childhood (small furniture is what fits our smaller house and our previous apartments).
No kids 🤷🏼♀️.
I’ve been an adult for 30 years now and only has kids for 13 of those years. We live in smaller spaces than ML average. Lol.
I always move to the guest room. The main reason is because “my” bathroom is actually the main hall bathroom while our master bathroom is “his.” So I don’t want to end up in the situation where he’s trudging through the bedroom to use his bathroom for whatever reason while I’m trying to sleep (regardless of whether I’m the sick or healthy one).
I’ve been an adult for 30 years now and only has kids for 13 of those years. We live in smaller spaces than ML average. Lol.
Similar! We didn't even have a second bedroom until I was in my 30s (which was small and we used as an office), much less room for kids plus an additional extra guest bedroom. Our couch is also still our small apartment sized one. I'm short so I can lie down on it, but my partner can't really sleep comfortably on it.
We are fortunate in that we don't have significant sleep problems, but even if we did, we don't have the space to have great options to sleep apart.
Post by CrazyLucky on Feb 28, 2024 12:06:08 GMT -5
We usually still sleep in the same bed. If not, it's the sick person who sleeps in the guest room. The assumption is the sick person will be staying home to recover and the well person doesn't want to disturb them by getting ready for work the next day.
I’ve been an adult for 30 years now and only has kids for 13 of those years. We live in smaller spaces than ML average. Lol.
I think it’s very #regional! You are in a VHCOL, a much smaller home costs probably 3x what a bigger home would cost in most places. But if we had a typical 2 kid household, we’d have no extra bedroom.
ETA: A lot of people live in places where it’s common to have a finished basement too, that def adds space to sleep. Not here due to #swamplife lol.
Last Edit: Feb 28, 2024 12:13:53 GMT -5 by mofongo
Ok douche, go ahead and call it mud. My husband DID have halitosis. We addressed it after I talked to you girls on here and guess what? Years later, no problem. Mofongo, you're a cunt. Eat shit. ~anonnamus
Separately, and it depends. Sometimes he's been sick but he went to the guest room because the dog is my shadow and her crate is in our room and it was just easier for everyone for me to stay where the dog is 😂
Some people responding here don't have sleep issues and it shows.
im amazed at how many people have guest rooms. Of the 14 places I’ve lived in my life, only one had a guest room (ages 4-7).
I haven’t even lived somewhere with a couch large enough for an adult to sleep on since childhood (small furniture is what fits our smaller house and our previous apartments).
We're lucky to have one. But even when we didn't, sick person gets the bed! Like, who forces the sick person out?!?!
Post by definitelyO on Feb 28, 2024 12:33:38 GMT -5
depends on how sick - really sick - like covid or coughing all the time - the sick person goes to the guest room in the basement. so they're isolated and have their own bathroom.
Also. While I may be in stretchy pants when I telework, I'm not working any less than when I'm in the office. It's not like home = chill time and in office = actual expenditure of brain power.
My husband is hardly ever sick. Yay, introversion! But when he and our older daughter got covid at the same time, I banished them both to the basement and I slept gloriously alone in our bed.
When I got covid (solo), I also slept gloriously alone in our bed. But when I work from home, it’s from a corner of our bedroom, so I’ve perhaps got a bit of a special snowflake situation there.
So, whatever suits me I guess? . Poor DH.
(With the second illness I got immediately after covid, I did spend some time in the guest room and would do that or a couch if need be.). I generally think the sick person should get the big comfy bed.
Post by somersault72 on Feb 28, 2024 12:43:24 GMT -5
I pretty much never leave the bed. DH will sleep on the couch if he isn't feeling well or if he can't sleep or if our kid is kicking him in the back. He is an insomniac anyway.
Post by doggielover on Feb 28, 2024 12:44:59 GMT -5
We sleep in separate rooms when one of us is sick. I've been dealing with pneumonia for the past 5 frickin' weeks so we've been sleeping apart that entire time (it's been kinda nice). I'm ready for this pneumonia to take up residence elsewhere. For the most part it's gone (clean chest xray) but I still have the residual coughing.
It depends. When I had Covid last month I got the bed. H tried to sleep on the couch 2 nights but then ended up at his mom’s in her guest bedroom for about a week. When I’ve had bad heart burn that keeps me up all night, I’ll go to the couch. When he’s sick it’s usually for like a day and I still sleep in the bed lol
When I'm sick I stay in our bed. I get sick way more often than my husband. Depending on how sick I am, he may choose the couch in the family room. He typically avoids the germs when he can.
My husband rarely gets sick, but when he does, its like always the very worst man cold. Depending on how tolerant I am of his moaning and groaning I may still sleep in our bed, or I may go sleep with our daughter. She has a queen sized bed and got used to me hopping in her bed in the middle of the night in the early days of type 1 diabetes to make sure her blood sugar never dropped too low (if an alarm went off). For whatever reason, I cannot get comfortable on our very comfortable couch to sleep even though I have no problem unintentionally drifting off there during family movie night, lol.
Post by lolalolalola on Feb 28, 2024 14:00:47 GMT -5
Usually the sick person will sleep in the spare room because the healthy person will be getting up earlier and will be making noise in the en-suite bathroom. We only sleep apart if one person is coughing, etc and May be tossing turning and would keep the healthy person up. Or, if we are really worried about transmission.
Post by rootbeerfloat on Feb 28, 2024 14:01:33 GMT -5
This is timely as I've spent the last 3 nights on the couch. Prior to this, I've resisted leaving my comfy bed when he's not feeling well, and we've stuck to the outside edges of our king-sized bed. But I've learned the couch isn't so bad (no snoring and definitely preferable to the air mattress).
Post by sunshineandpinot on Feb 28, 2024 14:02:50 GMT -5
I don't feel the need to split but my H had a man cold in January and he moved to the guest room. So in our case, the sick one would move... likely to the guest room or maybe the couch but that's probably not as comfortable.
Post by lolalolalola on Feb 28, 2024 14:17:55 GMT -5
I answered based on the fact that we have a guest room If the alternative was sleeping on the couch we would likely be much more selective on when we split up.
Separately. I usually let my H take the bed because I like sleeping on our couch and he hates it, but there have been times when I have kept the room when I am super sick and need to be closer to a bathroom or whatever.