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[quote=Anonymous]Just moved into the guest room for sleeping, about 2 weeks ago. LOVE IT! I refer to it as my 'mom cave', as it's downstairs off to one end of the house. 
Reasons for the decision:
DH has a condition I think is "period limb movement disorder" in which he does a lot of sleep movements that is disruptive to me as a light sleeper, making me wake up in the middle of the night and not go back to sleep. He has been slow to accept his need to get treatment and with COVID he's not going to spend an overnight in a specialists' observation. nor is there a likely treatment anyways.
DH also gets really sleepy at 9:30 pm when I've just gotten the tweens to bed and want to stay up for a little personal time. So I don't go to sleep until midnight (or, ahem, later like now, though this is unusual). Meanwhile, DH wakes around 6 and fidgets like crazy, apparently when he's still barely aware of it. Buying a special new mattress did not help. 
Third, our ADHD son wakes really early too and no matter what we have tried, he comes into the Master BR because he is kinda clingy with my DH. 
I was getting extremely sleep deprived and grouchy. It could also be menopause for me that makes me sensitive about sleep. Until he successfully tackles the sleep disorder, I'll sleep in my Mom Cave. DH has to deal with the morning routine (mostly DS, as DD is self-sufficient), and I get to sleep in.  But there is upside for him definitely, because occasionally, I will hang out with him in our master BR at night, before I head down, in which case it is to initiate sex. Has been more frequent since I reclaimed my ability to sleep when I need it. Married 15 years, happily so.[/quote]

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