Hello,
I'm such an insomniac and it's so much worse when my honey isn't home. He makes me go to bed at a reasonable hour and with him not home I sit here so tired and still don't go to bed. Any other feeling me?
Yep. Tonight DH is home from training, but he goes back tomorrow and I won't be able to sleep. We start a deployment REALLy soon, and I know I will be exhausted the whole time from lack of sleep and keeping up with a toddler. DH is the same way as yours, he makes me lay down with him, because he knows I will stay up all night otherwise.
I know the exact feeling right now. Mine is deployed, and I sleep horribly without him. I toss and turn all night, and don't sleep well at all. I don't take anything to help me sleep, or if I'm sick, I don't take night time cold medicine, because I'm the only one here to take care of the kids, if they wake up or something. I just can't get comfortable with him gone. I had the best sleep the two weeks he was here for r&r, but its gone downhill since then. I've always been a light sleeper, and this just makes it 10 times worse. He is the same though. He says he is sleeping the same way as me, since he has been gone too. It is just more comfortiing to have him here.
Boy I know the feeling try going 1 year without your hubby I am going insane without him here. The only good thing is I have almost lost 10 lbs in 3 weeks so thats a positive. I try and stay up to talk to him since our time difference is 17 hours. So insomniac has been my middle name.
I'm the same way. I barely slept before he left because he was on night shift. I'm so paranoid someone would break in. Now that he's deployed its even worse. I panic at every noise. We have a 2 month old and a 19month old and I can't take anything to put me to sleep because of them. I hate it so much.
Quoting violinjewel:I know the exact feeling right now. Mine is deployed, and I sleep horribly without him. I toss and turn all night, and don't sleep well at all. I don't take anything to help me sleep, or if I'm sick, I don't take night time cold medicine, because I'm the only one here to take care of the kids, if they wake up or something. I just can't get comfortable with him gone. I had the best sleep the two weeks he was here for r&r, but its gone downhill since then. I've always been a light sleeper, and this just makes it 10 times worse. He is the same though. He says he is sleeping the same way as me, since he has been gone too. It is just more comfortiing to have him here.
My sister was like that when my BIL was in the Navy...she would rarely ever go to sleep and when she did she usually fell asleep on the couch. I always have trouble falling asleep but I can't have it quiet either....so I turn on a small fan, and typically watch some tv then I fall asleep....I cuddle a body pillow and keep a house phone and my cell phone on my night stand and a big dagger-like knife in the night stand drawer. For me its always a matter of feeling safe when he's not home....if I don't feel safe than I don't sleep...I can't,my mind won't let me....but the safer I feel the easier I find it to fall asleep. But thats just me....
We have a 9 hour time difference, so I'm up as we speak waiting to chat...I may give in and go to bed though, I have to get my daughter up at 6 for school, then go to school myself. And I agree- being pregnant just multiplies it by 100. Hormones plus exhaustion plus natural frustration at the situation= baaad mojo, lol. Well make it though. All worth it just to get them home again.
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My sleep got really messed up with my husband gone. I have problems falling asleep anyways and I have even more problems when he is not home because I am more skiddish about noises and being by myself, so it's that much harder for me. I've slept so much harder since he has gotten home, he can't even wake me up most mornings when he tells me goodbye and I used to wake him up because he wouldn't wake up to his own alarm before deployment. lol.
I used to have the same problem when DH was gone, it sucked! I would stay up until 5-6am, go to sleep and wake up an hour or two later. It doesn't make your mood better because of lack of sleep. =(
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on Nov. 23, 2009 at 12:13 AM