My (F29) fiancé’s (M32) sleep schedule is annoying me
I am F29 and my fiancé is M32, we have been together for 3 years and some months. My fiancé wakes up 5.30 for work everyday Monday-Saturday, he commutes one hours, is at work 7.00, finishes 15.00 and is back home 16.00.
Most days he sleeps from around 17.00-20.00. Except from the nights he is cooking, but even then as he most of the time cooks the night before. He goes to bed 00.00.
I also work, but only 8-16 hours per week and study. I have two kids, not his, age 8 and 11.
Some nights I wake him around 19.00-20.00 but I only do it maximum 1-3 days before I get annoyed that I need to wake him up and manage his sleep schedule and stop doing it, when I don’t do it he can then sleep until 21.00 some nights.
It is really starting to annoy me that he sleeps that much:
\- If I need to go out without the kids I need to wake him to make sure he watches them.
\- I feel like we are not a family with his sleep schedule. Some times he wakes up after I put the kids to bed and expect me to have energy to now be with him. We then do more things weekends and vacations, but everyday life is important as well.
\- I told him he can’t do like this if we have a child together. I am scared that if I was home on maternity leave he would be tired from his job, come back, sleep without giving me a break, then stay up much later, leading us to drift apart with different sleep schedules. I don’t want to be alone with the child afternoons and evenings. I also would also want us to take turns sleeping in on the weekends. I am not pregnant but I am thinking about all these things. I have said it, but when I see his sleep schedule now I still worry.
We just came back from a vacation to his home country (my dad is from this country as well), it was our first time going there together and it was just me and him going, it annoys me more now when I saw how he was not napping there and social with everybody. We also went on two vacations with my children, one in May and one in July, he was also very present there. It is not like he is not invested in us, but everyday life also hits harder now, the contrast of it. Now for him it is work, being on the phone with his family back home, tv, and me if I am there when he is awake.
Tl;dr: my fiancé naps 2-4 hours daily. Monday-Friday and sometimes Saturday as well. It makes me feel like we are not a family and it makes me question getting married and having a child together, even though I love him so much and he is great when he is there.