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Mean Sleep Talking Causing Problems In My Marriage
by Kelly F
(Kent, OH, USA)
Sleep talking is causing problems in my marriage. I do not sleep talk unless spoken to. I am 48 years old now but when I was in my late teens I remember at least one time that I had needed to be up by a certain time and when I woke up late and asked my dad why he had not woke me up, he said that I had cussed him out. I was totally shocked as I would never do that to my dad.
My husband has been furious with me several times because he will wake me up to ask or tell me something and I am nasty and irrational with him. In a recent example, he woke me up to tell me he was going up the street to pick up a pizza for lunch. He says I got really angry and told him I did not want him taking the car anywhere. When I got up a few hours later, he was angry with me. I was crying and telling him I would never stop him in my right mind from getting lunch. This finally prompted me to seek information and help.
I never speak in my sleep unless spoken to and am almost always mean. There was one time that he told me he was going to pick up donuts for breakfast, I agreed this was a good idea apparently and when he returned he asked which donut I wanted, I said I wanted the cream stick, got up on one elbow and ate it. I was told about it later but have no memory of the conversation or even that I ate a donut.
I need to find some sort of help as I can not keep having fights with my husband and waking up to him being furious with me over something that I can not even remember.
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