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I have been battling sleep issues for 18 months. Sleep meds caused much more harm than good. I’ve tried all sorts of strategies but the absolutely most effective one for me has been sleep restriction therapy. I go to bed at 11:30 and get up at 5:30. I too have issues with a husband that snores, but since starting SRT, I am able to go to sleep before he does and it works out. (For some reason that I don’t understand, he only snores when he initially falls asleep but if he wakes in the night and falls back asleep, there is no snoring….). I am fortunate to have a very supportive husband who has adjusted his sleep schedule to mine. However, while I seem to be thriving on 5 or 6 hours of sleep a night, he is often sleepy in the early evening and naps while I cook supper. This works for us. I highly recommend that you and your husband try SRT. Perhaps you could both compromise on a wake up time of 5 am. In my younger days I would have been horrified at the thought of getting up at 5:30 EVERY DAY but now I embrace the early morning wakings and go walking in the early dawn. My husband walks with me when he can, which has given us extra time to be together.
