Just in time for Valentine's day, we're here to start an argument: Does your significant other's morning alarm annoy you? In a perfect world, you and the wife/husband/live-in squeeze would wake up at the same time and enjoy a pot of coffee together over the morning paper.
But in real life, you're on different schedules, don't even find time to eat breakfast and get your daily digest by RSS feed with your smart phone. Oh, and your husband wakes up at 4:30 with that really annoying alarm tone that makes you jolt up thinking you're stuck on a mysterious island with Matthew Fox and you forgot to push the button.
When we crash over at the BF's place, he sets his alarm for 2 hours before he needs to actually wake up. Yep, he snoozes that long. Oh, and that Lost-esqe alarm tone? It exists. It's the innocently-named "Alarm" tone on the iPhone. Aren't I a lucky girl?
But you readers have to have some horror stories about your sweetie's alarm, right? We want to hear them! Oh, and if you've got any tips for keeping a different-wake-styles marriage together, please let us know in the comments!
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Comments (5)
my husband sets his (extremely obnoxious) alarm at 6am... two and a half hours before he actually wakes up. actually, he sets two-- a cell phone and a clock/radio, just for good measure. of course, what actually wakes him up is when i whack him with a pillow.
eventually, you get used to it and now i don't even have to wake up to shove him out of bed and into the shower
You could put the cell-phone/i-pod under the pillow, or you could do what I did. Solder an earphone jack into the clock-radio and use a RadioShack pillow speaker.
I used to always have control of the alarm remote, but when we moved to our new place, the alarm only fit on my husband's nightstand, so he got the remote. It would be fine if he would use it correctly, but there have been so many mornings when I (luckily) wake up with a jolt and realize that he pressed sleep instead of snooze 40 minutes ago...
I use the iPhone "alarm" sound. It is the only one that can wake me up! All the other ones are too pleasant sounding. It is my man who hates it, as he is a bartender and sleeps in. Every time it scares him! But it's an exchange. I have my alarm, he leaves the seat up and never puts the toilet paper on the roll when he changes it. haha.
I do not believe in the snooze button, but my bf believes in the at least 1 hour of snooze button every morning routine... the worst part, I work nights and my bf works days. I get home from a long night at work and try to hit the sack before the sun comes up(personally, it's harder for me to fall asleep if i see the sun)... 2 hours after falling asleep, my bf's alarm starts going off, but for some reason he decides after the first snooze whether he will sleep in or be productive before going off to work... some days this results in at least 3.5 hrs of snooze button all during my sleeptime before another nightshift.