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11/19/22(Sat)07:22:13 No.71045408
>Tfw boyfriend is asleep 
Why does he do this? Every fucking night?

11/19/22(Sat)07:25:16 No.71045429
>tells me he's not addicted to sleeping 
>goes insane if he doesn't get his daily fix 
>shouts at me for trying to keep him from 
relapsing
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[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 65 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

What the fuck is with women hating men sleeping? I left multiple women because they hit me over a sleep-related event. My brother got hit with a hammer and divorced over it. My friend's sister would bang pots to wake him up if there was anything left unfinished by the time he went to sleep.

Fucking nutters out here.

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 68 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

My family culture as a child was that sleep was sacred. If there were plans and places to go, but someone was tired and fell asleep on the sofa, then the light would be switched off, a blanket fetched, no one else goes in the lounge and the plans got delayed or cancelled.

Now I've married a woman who wakes me up to ask me if I'm sleeping.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 33 points 4 days ago

Are you sleeping? I hope the notification didn't wake you.

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Definitely not gender-restricted. I think every guy I've ever dated has poked/shaken/bothered me awake just to ask in a loud whisper "pssst hey are you sleeping??" and when I'd say yes, I was sleeping, they'd be like "okay you should probably keep sleeping" or something like that.

One guy would find that I wasn't in bed anymore (he snored) and then come to the couch, poke me to ask if I was sleeping on the couch, and then ultimately climb into the couch with me to then snore some more!

Looking back it is very endearing, but I've never considered hurting someone I love as much as I did in those instances.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago

I think every guy I've ever dated has poked/shaken/bothered me awake just to ask in a loud whisper "pssst hey are you sleeping??" and when I'd say yes, I was sleeping, they'd be like "okay you should probably keep sleeping" or something like that.

They wanted to screw

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago

Two main reasons I know:

  1. The "not masculine enough" category of icks
  2. Associated with laziness

Your experiences seem to be related to #2

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is incredibly specific and I've never encountered the women-hating-men-sleeping phenomenon before.

Do you sleep walk or something? How did you manage to upset them so much while nominally being unconscious? Your post has puzzled me.

[–] PhoreTwunny@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If I tried to sleep longer than my ex-wife, she would "clean" very loudly in the bedroom until I got up. Conversely if I didn't want to go to bed the same time she did, she got super butthurt.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah ok that is mental. I can see why she is an ex.

Edit: Just realised you aren't the OP commenter... is this really a common thing? The internet is eye-opening

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Some people are insane and unfortunately it's a little too common to allow them to stay in your life.

In Norway I've heard a lot of threats of buckets of cold water to wake up a "syvsover". In not sure if I was threatened with it or subjected to it once, I'm 30 and my childhood is a little hazy.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Holy shit, people are nuts. I didn't realise it was tied into toxic gender roles like that when I saw OP's comment at first. It seems like these people are stuck in unhappy marriages/long term relationships and their partners want to hurt them in a societally acceptable way.

Edit: The youtuber is definitely pandering to a specific niche I suppose. I think other women would call her a "pick-me". Not that it invalidates what she says but seemed noteable.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"pick-me" is just the way shitty women describe women who don't hate men

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

It's really just ad hominem.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah mostly agree with that

[–] lessthanluigi 2 points 3 days ago

The War On Napping

lol

[–] Schal330@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Back when I was 15 I had a gf that was basically nocturnal. She'd throw shit at me (e.g. scissors, a knife, a fork) while I was sleeping if I was breathing too loud. If the internet died in the house she would wake me up to try and fix it.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You lived with your gf at 15?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

It’s common in many parts of the world to sleep with your girlfriend despite your age or living situation. In certain subsets of teenage “sexual” relationships, parents even allow their children to copulate in their home, rather than in the park or against the back wall of a spacious disability bathroom stall.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Man my childhood was trash then

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just not European. To be fair in the UK there was a 50/50 split amongst my friends on how liberal their families would be. Maybe 60/40 but a plurality of parents would let their 15+ year old children have sleepovers with their bf/gfs. I suppose the age of consent is 16 here so that makes a difference.

Mine were not so liberal on sex. They got pissed with me when I was 17 for having my gf at the time stay the night in their house.

Pretty relaxed about drugs though, although that's another conversation.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

My problem was actually growing up in rural Alberta. In my class there was only 11 girls and they were all howdy type people who ride horses so I kind of got spawn camped in life

[–] Valencia@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 points 4 days ago

I'm in the US and spent most of my weekends at my girlfriend's house when I was that age. Her dad spent all his time at the bar so we we're always alone. Good times.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

France, Nordic countries, chunks of Germany and Africa.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 days ago

I think I dated her too.

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 43 points 4 days ago

OP should marry him so she can divorce him over it

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Did anyone ever hook 4chan up to a new machine or is Greentext now trapped in amber from a few weeks ago?

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago

The greentext tap has been turned back on but we'll still get the same reposts forever

[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

Nah, it's back up as of a few days ago.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

amber unclenched, so 4chan is out now

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 14 points 4 days ago

Weak kegels.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago

What anime is the comment at the top from? The one where she's smoking?

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Eh, I've heard of some men that never got up in the night to deal with the baby / kids. I can understand how a partner could be driven to the brink by that.

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

That's totally an older generation thing. My father refuses to change diapers unless he's the only one there. The grandfather brags that he never changed a diaper in his life. Yeah....that stopped with my generation.

Most millennial guys that I know are more invested in their kids. They change them, they wake with them, they play with them, they feed them. I don't understand why older men frowned upon it like it was some sort of horrible thing to take care of your own kids. Toxic masculinity is such a fragile, yet destructive thing.