A Night in My Life March 30, 2004 ~ 2:57 pm
Posted by Julie in : Coupledom, Rick , trackbackThis is what my life is like the nights I spend with the boyfriend. Well, the G-rated version. We go to bed, cuddle for a bit, and then go to opposite sides of the bed. Why do we do this? Well, Mr. Rick has Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS), which means that sometimes his joints feel itchy or tingly. This is mostly in his legs, mostly at night. The only way to get rid of the itchiness is to move the offending joint, which means kicking.
Now, fortunately, he does not kick me. He kicks straight up and down. Which means sleeping in the same bed with him is a series of jolts throughout the course of the night - the mattress bouncing when he hits it with his leg. For the first few weeks of our relationship, this kept me up. Now I can sleep through it no problem. I call it earthquake training, although I can’t remember the last time NYC had an earthquake.
Sometimes Rick feels bad about kicking so consistently, and sometimes he’s just not tired, so he’ll go into the living room to watch TV/play guitar/kick the couch rather than the bed so that his sleeping girlfriend can catch some z’s in peace. He has yet to learn that I am more likely to be wakened by the lack of kicking than I am by the kicking. Anyway, he did this last night, and came back several hours later, by which point I had rolled over to his side of the bed, and told me to move over. I did so, leaving him half of the bed. He told me to move over some more. I did again, leaving him with two-thirds of the bed. (He’s 6′3″, he does need more room than me. I’m only 5′2″.) This was not enough, however, and he asked me to give him some more room. I did so, and by this point have approximately the one foot of space nearest to the edge. Keep in mind we are in a queen-sized bed. The love of my life then asks one more time, and I, barely awake, say “There’s no more room, I’m as moved over as I’m going to get.” He apologized, but I knew he was wishing he had the bed to himself.
Sometimes I think it would be easier to go home and sleep with my two cats in my double bed. But then again, they aren’t as much fun to watch while they’re sleeping. 
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