My wifes a baker. She works early morning hours. After she arrives home from work she will sit down on the couch and watch TV and fall a sleep within 5 minutes. Understanding of her working early hours. I hate to see her sleep her day away. I wake her up all the time during the day so she don't sleep her day away .Is this normal for a person to come home from work, sit down and fall a sleep so soon? She can fall a sleep within 5 minutes from sitting down in a chair.
She comes home on her lunch hour sits down in her chair and falls a sleep. I again wake her up. If I don't wake her up she will sleep all day into the night.
She goes to bed at 9pm and wakesup at 3am. She only gets 6 hours of sleep before work. Maybe that's the reason not enough sleep. But, I'm becoming concern if this is normal for people ?My job I drive dump truck local. I go to bed at 9pm and wake up at 2am. I only get 5 hours a day of sleep. I don't fall a sleep as soon as I get home from work. I'm like a machine my body is use to those hours. Who wants to go to bed at 8pm at night? That to me is too early for me to go to bed. Sometimes it don't get dark until 8:30pm. Understanding that we are all not the same.
Do you hold a 40 hour a week job? If so? How many hours of sleep do you get?
I noticed after i turned 35 yrs old I found my self needing to take a nap after I get home from work But, when I do. There goes the rest of my day gone down the tubes. Other countries say that USA works to much.To me 40 hours a week is to much for us to work to make ends meat. Be nice to only have to work 20 hours a week and recieve the same pay lol.Who ever started this 40 hour a week working rule anyway?
Are there kids, in the house? Who has dementia?
- is this new behavior? for how long?
- how is your personal relationship? Aside from needing more sleep as suggested by the others, could she this be an avoidance technique?
- when she sleeps, is it soundly?
- how is the rest of her health? heart, lungs, blood sugar levels, her teeth?
All of these things can contribute to her need to sleep. If she's just falling asleep at the table or right after sitting down, she's exhausted and obviously needs it .. but my question is, why? Have you talked about it?
Duh.
Has your wife asked you to wake her up? Has she asked you to be in charge of what hours she sleeps?
Plus you said she's a baker, so she spends her entire work shift on her feet in a hot kitchen, that is totally draining on her!!!
Sounds like you are both sleep deprived,
eight hours...
after my heart operation, my day was divided in two shifts of 12 hrs.,
where I slept 4 hrs. each shift, lets say 9a-1pm and 9-1am, which gave me two 8 hr. periods in one day, i am just saying people are all different.
But I understand where you're coming from. Talk to her about the importance of sticking to a schedule, so get that alarm clock ready and make sure she's well fed before leaving the house. ... Don't forget to throw in a couple of kisses; even when she's sleeping.
Also, is she using excessive caffeine, energy drinks, Mountain Dew? Maybe in trying to wake up, she is setting herself up for a crash.
What about weekends? Do you try to keep "normal" hours on weekends and have to retrain yourselves every Monday. I would focus on early bird specials and matinees and try not to go to bed too late on weekends.
Maybe try to take up an activity such as a mellow talk and walk around the block when after work.
Sounds like you are both working hard at building your lives, I am sure you will succeed and get through this. Best of luck to you.