While there are plenty of jokes about snoring in marriage, the truth is that snoring can have a negative impact on your marriage. From forcing spouses to sleep apart to serious health concerns of which snoring is a symptom. It is important to get your spouse’s or your snoring under control as soon as possible.
The first thing you should so if you or your spouse snores is to see a doctor. While most snoring is harmless, snoring could be a sign of a life threatening condition, such as sleep apnea. It is important to rule our any health concerns, and a sleep study might be needed (your spouse or yourself sleeps one night at a sleep lab while attached to monitors and under observation).
If you are the spouse that is subject to the midnight concert, if your spouse does the snoring, try the following tips.
Wear earplugs to filter out the noise, especially if you are a light sleeper (why is it that the person snoring doesn’t get disturbed by the noise?). If you have young children that might wake in the middle of the night, earplugs might not be an option for you.
Sometimes a person will be prevented from falling asleep by snoring but not disturbed by it after he or she is asleep. If this is the case, arrange to go to bed a little earlier than your spouse to ensure that you will be sound asleep before the snoring starts.
Often, sleeping on your side prevents snoring. Give your spouse a little nudge or reminder to sleep on his or her side when he or she snores.
Try a fan or air conditioner. This sometimes prevents snoring in some people.
Encourage your spouse to try some of the over the counter anti snoring products, such as the non-medicated nose strips that open the nasal passages from the outside.
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