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Late one night in our new, much smaller bed with much smaller blankets…
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Anne: Give me some of the blanket. You have it all.
Chris: I barely have enough to go over the edge.
Anne: I barely have any at all.
Chris: I told you we should have kept our old comforter.
Anne: It was too big for this bed!
Chris: But we would have had enough covers for us and everyone else.
Anne: Everyone else? Who else were you planning on inviting to bed?
Chris: Wait a minute…That’s not what I meant…
Anne: It’s what you said though…So, you have someone in mind?
Chris: Freudian slip.
Anne: You should probably just stop talking now.
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Lesson: Always get a comforter one size too big so conversations like this never even have to occur.
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Anne, for the first 6 years of our marriage we had a queen size bed. The queen top sheet never seemed to be long enough on either side. I ended up getting a king size top sheet at a thrift store and it was perfect. We then upgraded to a king bed and are back where we started. :D
Lesson #471b — When making the bed with spouse.
Always make it from “their” side of the bed. This way you give “them” more.
Making the bed from your own side always ends in short changing the sheets on their side — which leads to “sheet wars” at 2am. ;)
–M@tt
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Turn the comforter sideways when you sleep…. keeps down a lot of arguments.
Haha. That is hilarious.
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We have this conversation almost every night.
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Anne – I’m so glad I read this after already having met you. I could see picture you saying these words. And it made me laugh. eff sent this to me for a giggle, and that was accomplished. :) But I think you are so on to something here. You really are! :)
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After 26+ years of marriage, I keep threatening twin beds like Ricky and Lucy Ricardo. Then I’d have my own blanket! Probably will never happen though, cause then how would I get my feet warm?
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Cindy…good point!
nice.
Wait a second… you downsized your bed?
My husband woke up in the middle of the night a couple months ago and declared we were getting a new bed. We went that Friday and got a king size and I don’t think we could ever go back.
But when we slept on the full (Yes, full, not even a queen!) I had a separate blanket that I used. An extra layer when making the bed, but so worth it. Especially in the winter!
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Wife and I have had the same conversation! The dogs have requested the same :)
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ha! yeah…men just cant win.
just go with it boys, embrace it.
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@heidi – we needed to. our big bed wouldn’t fit in our new place – through the door, much less the bedroom. *tiny* :)
I agree the sheets are more important than the blanket. I usually want the sheet, but I am too hot for the blanket. So I push of the blanet to her side and keep the sheet.
We have been traveling so have had queen and full beds to sleep in for the last 2.5 weeks and I am glad to be home in our big bed.
You are too hot for the blanket huh? Man, someone thinks a lot of himself. :) jk
Almost 35 years and we still have this conversation. Add to it that I shift around a lot and kick my covers off every so often and it’s a wonder my husband still is in our bed.
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I loved this dialogue. It could happen even with a big bed. Only in a king size the dialogue might go something like this. “Where are you? I can’t find you. Did you leave with all the covers?” Some things are just part of sleeping together long term. I’m glad I found your blog. What a wonderful mix of laughter and serious concern for thte world. Anne
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Ha Ha ha…
Thanks for the laugh. My wife and I both got a chuckle out of that.
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This makes me laugh so much. This sounds like conversations I’ve had with my wife. Might have several of them next week when we’re RV camping. Moving to a much smaller sleeping environment for a week.
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Per your tweet–God’s blessings as you unplug. I’m praying for you.
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Hilarious. And then when there are two kids involved who’ve somehow in the middle of the night crawled in between the two of you in a California King bed…there is truly NO room for anyone else.
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we always fight over the blanket. ALWAYS!! but i end up getting hot in the middle of the night and kicking it off.
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I surely did just giggle while reading this. This sounds so like a conversation I would have with my husband. Funny stuff right there.
Sounds familiar, all right. Except with us, we always seem to wind up with Yvonne on TOP of the top sheet and me under it – that also leads to some interesting attempts to straighten things out.
For a little different twist on marital communication, there was the time I was driving home from UCLA to San Diego (about a 2 1/2 hour drive given NO traffic jams). (Me, thinking:) “Oh, oh. Tomorrow’s our anniversary, and I haven’t even thought about what present to get her.
Better do something about that NOW.”
“OK, the South Coast Plaza is just ahead. I’ll pull in there. Now, what store? There must be hundreds. Well, JC Penneys is close, and they should have something good.”
Now I’m in the store. Trouble is, they have too much! How can I choose? I feel like the detective whose license plates read “no clue!” (No doubt, I’m the first husband who’s ever felt that way!) Finally I decide to try the perfume counter. 0nly it, too, has so much!
The lady clerk tries to make helpful suggestions. She even sprays a couple fragrances on each wrist so I’ll know what they’re like. And they’re nice – but I’m no closer to knowing what Yvonne would or wouldn’t like.
Finally, the light bulb dawns. I remember one of her favorites (White Shoulders)! Buy a bottle, have it wrapped, and head home. Mission accomplished – or so I thought.
I pulled into our parking lot at home. Yvonne was watching for me from our second-floor window, and comes down the stairs to meet me. She leanes in the open car window to give me a welcom-home kiss.
Then she stopped. And leaned back. The kiss doesn’t quite make it. Instead, she sniffs. And sniffs again. And again. And in a not-nearly-so-welcoming voice she demandd “WHERE have you been?”
So she didn’t get her present the next day. She got it right then and there!
Lesson: if you’re the hubby, always ask the clerk how long those sample scents will last!
Absolutely.
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I understand the conversation – Why companies don’t make the sheets and blankets wider is beyond me. Always a fight for them, doesn’t matter what size bed. I have tried to turn them sideways, but then the bed is not made “right” according to my husband, but when I get away with it, there is never a fight for the covers.
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Amen. We’re already shopping for ours after n conversations like this one.
LOL I love this! Made me nearly spit Coke all over my computer LOLOLOL
Hmmm…I’m a newlywed, and even I knew the queen-size-bed-king-sized-cover rule!
Even still, those awkward conversations never seem to end…!