When does sleeping alone get easier?

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When does sleeping alone get easier?
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Tue, 05-01-2007 - 3:16pm

I am not sleeping well. Not at all. My body feels worn down and I just can't get to sleep. Shane always held me. Now the other side is empty and cold. So when does it get easier?

~Mel~

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Tue, 05-01-2007 - 3:45pm

It will get easier. I've beening doing it for 5 years now. It was hard in the beginning but I tried to psych myself up saying that I have the WHOLE bed to myself now. lol It is awkward at first but it does get easier.

Hang in there.

Jennifer (who hopes she CAN sleep with someone in the same bed now...besides her son who sneaks in every now and then lol)

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Tue, 05-01-2007 - 3:56pm

I think it gets easier gradually as you become happy not to have the stress of the other person and you are happy to have control of your whole house and life. I like having my space and peace and quiet for a good night's sleep. I think when you stop worrying about what he is doing and concentrate on yourself and what you will do next then you will be better. It will get easier every day. This sounds dumb, but maybe you can prop yourself up with extra pillows or one of the kid's stuffed animals? Or maybe you have a warm dog that is not too much of an itch to sleep with?

We have 2 dogs and when DS is home I make the dogs sleep with him so I don't get woken up for any nonsense. The other night when DS was with his dad, one of the puppies suddenly "had" to go out at 4AM. When I let him out he bolted out the door after one of those poisonous toads. OMG. I am in my PJs with no glasses and running through a muddy yard at top speed to catch him by the tail. I make him drop the toad and then haul him over to the hose and run water through his mouth. Of course he doesn't stand so still and I end up soaked. Go back to house. He is still making a funny noise with his tongue - so go back to hose. Make sure he doesn't have a toad in his mouth. Repeat. Get more wet. Go in house, change clothes and all go back to bed.

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Tue, 05-01-2007 - 4:13pm
Hysterical! You just made my day. I have 2 rat terriers and they chase EVERYTHING! I know your pain. Mine have no tails though....LOL!

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Tue, 05-01-2007 - 4:29pm

OMG that is hilarious!!!

Of course, I'm sure it wasn't all that funny to YOU at 4am!! But I bet that was quite a sight! The worst thing my dog ever did was to catch a squirrel. I'm still not sure how she did it. But when I tried to chase her around the yard to get it away from her, she just started chewing and chowing away at it as she ran from me. I could hear that dang thing's bones crunching in her mouth (eewwwwwwww, cringe, cringe, cringe) as she was playing "keep away" with me. And then she just flat out ATE the squirrel. Tail and all. Ick.

~shrimpy, never going to have a dog's diet

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Tue, 05-01-2007 - 5:35pm

Acks - I know what you mean about the crunching bones - and how hilarious that she would do that while running away from you. And what a thing for you to hear!! And never mind to watch her swallow it whole. Dear heavens!! These dogs are like more kids for us.

I am lucky because the puppy that did this is the less-athletic one that is so big he can't be fast. He is more than 80 pounds now. I don't know how I went from asleep in the bed to running like that. And I was sick with a cold to boot.

But the other red dog we have is little and fast like a fox - I can't catch him. He did what your dog did a while back - was running around the yard with something in his mouth that had a furry tail and it bounced as he ran. Upon closer inspection, I discovered it was a brown mouse or rat. I yelled NO - DROP IT and somehow he did. BUT then I was left with the dilemma of what to do because both dogs were loose and about to pounce on it again. So I grabbed a big leaf and used that to pick it up and throw it over the fence - EWWWWW. I guess super mom took over me because all I could think was what if that thing has a disease and the puppies get that? or what if my son was out here playing and he touched it?

And the other day we had the thing I am most afraid of - a snake in the pool. Hideous. Luckily one of the boys in the neighborhood is good at getting 'em out of his own pool and he came to the rescue. I took him to McDonalds and let him order whatever he wanted!!