A pregnant woman's post has gone viral after she confessed to shutting off her husband's work alarm clock, which she says interferes with her sleep each morning. She shared the post on Reddit's AITA forum, and many backed her decision to take matters into her own hands.
The 31-year-old mom explained in the post that she and her husband work from home and have different schedules. Her husband clocks in around 8:30 a.m. and reportedly has a "micromanaging boss" who insists on having employees occasionally work from the office. Meanwhile, her job is more leisurely with less pressure and fewer demands.
"My start time is 8 am and the work I do is very independent and at my own pace, and my boss could care less to track my every move so long as my deadlines are met," she shared in her post.
The woman's husband has a hard time waking up for work each morning.
"My husband sets his alarm at 7 am every day even though he admits he doesn’t want to be up until 8:15 at the earliest. But he never wakes up to it," the mom-to-be explained in the post. She noted that the alarm clock is so loud that her toddler wakes up earlier than usual from the blaring sound.
She usually wakes up 45 minutes earlier because of her husband's work schedule. "I’ve asked him to stop setting it so early and he said he needs the whole hour of snoozing to wake up," she wrote.
Her husband has opted to sleep on the couch a few nights to avoid waking up everyone else in the household. Although her husband has found alternatives to ease the situation, the woman said she still hits the snooze button for him every 15 minutes, regardless of where her husband decides to sleep.
The 'exhausted' mom said she did things a little differently the following morning.
"I am currently 6 months pregnant so this morning I was exhausted and didn’t want our toddler waking up earlier than needed and wanted the extra sleep myself, so I turned it off," the woman revealed.
She explained the alarm clock had awoken the toddler, so she had to tend to the child early. Her parents dropped the toddler off at preschool just 15 minutes before her husband had to report to work.
"At 8:27 I realize the time so I went to wake my husband up and told him 'I must’ve accidentally hit ‘off’ instead of ‘snooze’ on your alarm when I was tired, but it’s almost 8:30. You should get up,'" she wrote.
Her husband was asleep more than an hour later on the couch, with her having to wake him up again.
"I took a break and came downstairs to find him asleep at 9:47 am and I jolted him and said “You’re still asleep? It’s almost 10” and he said “no effin way!” And ran to his laptop," she recalled.
The woman's husband was seemingly upset after she shut off the alarm clock.
The pregnant mom's husband appeared upset after she decided to turn off his alarm clock. "He told me to stop turning his alarm off, and basically don’t touch it unless I hit snooze. Thing is, he goes to sleep almost every night around 2 am so he’s not gonna wake up to a 7 am alarm 9/10 times," she shared.
"Instead, I always wake up to it and have the task of hitting snooze every 15 mins anyway. Yes I technically lied to today him about his alarm but I am literally tired of this … and I did make sure to wake him up on time," she added.
After explaining the situation, she asked users for advice and whether they think she handled it correctly.
Reddit users shared their thoughts on her husband's work situation.
"Stop waking him up. Stop waking him up this minute. This is not your job. There are 50 different devices he could use to wake himself up. Or he could just grow the f— up and do it himself," one person wrote. "I repeat: this is not your job and it is not your responsibility. He needs to manage his own business without disturbing his family. He needs to be an adult and a father. NTA but you will be if you enable this anymore."
"This makes sense in theory, but in practice, it leaves OP and the child still getting woken up by the alarm before he intends to wake up," another person commented.
Although some Redditors agreed with the woman's decision, others explained how their husband and boyfriends took their feelings into consideration after waking them up.
"Yeah my husband was a chronic snooze pusher too, but he's also a decent man, so when I told him that as soon as the alarm goes off, I'm up no matter what and can't go back to sleep, he stopped feckin doing it," a third person wrote.
"I had to explain this to my bf… it took him a hot minute but he figured it out when I was unnecessarily grumpy because my sleep was being messed with when his alarm would go off at 5, 5:15 and 5:30 everyday," another commenter explained.
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