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[quote=Anonymous]After years of assuming I was tired because of having a young child, I decided I should just go to bed earlier. I've been trying to go to bed at 10 or 10:30 the past few nights, but the evening looks something like this:

6:30 I put child to bed after we eat early dinner
6:30-7pm spouse gets home
7ish spouse showers, eats dinner
7:30-9p I watch TV, figure out what I need to do the next day, complete little things I didn't get to during the day. Spouse lays in bed - takes a nap, plays video games, or does hobby work.
by 10pm, I'm brushing my teeth, getting ready to go to bed.
10:30-12am Spouse wants to work out (treadmill is in the room with wall shared by master bedroom, and he is over 200lbs so it shakes the ground too). Spouse comes into master bedroom to get new clothes, showers again, gets changed again, goes back out to living room to watch TV. 
12-1am Spouse comes to bed to sleep.
4-5am, Spouse gets up to go to bathroom.
6am, I wake up because child gets up to use bathroom. Once I am awake, I can't go back to sleep.

This schedule is a little different when we spend time together or have dates together, obviously, but on these mundane weeknights, I'd like to be able to sleep without waking up 3-4 times at night. I wake up every time he comes into the room. I've asked him to workout before 10pm, but he wants to relax and unwind before exercising. Any advice from people who are on different schedules from their spouse? He doesn't feel the need to go to bed early because he is able to take naps, which I cannot do. It's also tough because we have one bathroom! [/quote]

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