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I go to bed around midnight with my boyfriend and I’m very tired, but as soon as i lye down i can’t relax enough to sleep. I’m thinking of things that are stressful, exciting, all kinds of things. Around 4-6am I fall asleep but I think it’s just out of boredom when I’ve run out of things to think about. Then in the morning my boyfriend leaves at 8am. I’m usually instantly wide awake as he says goodbye, but 2 seconds after I drop in to the deepest sleep.

I have an alarm clock on my phone and when you hit snooze it goes off every 5 minutes there after. Some days I over sleep by 6 hours, that would mean I have hit snooze over 180 times! I never remember. My boyfriend calls me to make sure I’m awake most days, and I have a very convincing conversation with him, yet I never remember, I’m always asleep. Most days I wakeup around 2pm and force myself to get up. I’m tired all day long.

My boyfriend is too scared to make sure I get out of bed when he leaves for work because apparently I’ve sworn and yelled too many times in the past.

It’s horrible because I can only take part time work that begins around 5pm – 10pm. I’m too tired to do anything.. The other day 3 burglars entered our apartment at 3pm! Breaking open our front door. I had vaguely heard knocking around but was too tired to check, until I heard them inside. This is how bad it is.
For example the other day we had to wake-up because we were traveling, I slept around 1 hour, the last time I knew was 7am and we got up at 8am.. Apparently I was hitting and screaming at my boyfriend when he tried to wake me up. I wokeup crying.. Even though I had promised the evening before that I’d be really nice when he woke me up. That night I got to sleep quite quickly around 2am, but the following day I still couldn’t wake up until 3pm, then that night couldn’t sleep until 5am.

Honestly I know that a huge part of this is that i’m letting myself stay in a bad sleep routine.. but I can’t get out of it. I pickup phone calls, if I get out of bed, I’ll fall asleep sitting up at the breakfast table, I try starving myself of sleep and my body just doesn’t seem to care!

I’m tired and I want my life back. This has been happening for 3 months now. The 3 years before that I’d get to sleep easily, but wakeup a few times in the night but no big deal. And before that I was the best sleeper you’d ever meet. I’d sleep 10 hours ever night if I could.

The weirdest thing is everyone says that when you have insomnia a part of the problem is that you worry over not sleeping whilst in bed, but I don’t, I’m loving imagining things and having all that time to think.. But it’s once I wakeup I get mad that I’ve wasted most of the night and most of the day.

Please anyone does anyone have advice that doesn’t involve pills.

I am looking for the cheapest deal. At BDL airport there are parking lots as cheap as 5 dollars a night.

Havent ever travelled from HPN in NY but they ahve good flight deals and seems like expensive parkign lots.

I am driving from New Haven. Will be away for 2 night. Will the limo be cheaper?

We moved into the city almost a year ago after living in the burbs… and its a not so great area. While our street is relatively violence free we do hear the occasional sounds of gun fire (maybe 5 times since we’ve been here and mostly this summer). This has cuased my children a bit of stress and anxiety.

My question is… should I tell me kids that the minivan our only option for "family" travel was stolen this morning or should I just figure something else out to tell them?

I normally feel confident with my parenting skills but today I am conflicted because I am seeing that my children are "sheltered" a bit in comparison to the children they encounter now. I also don’t want to lie to them..

Also, is it right to sugar coat the world? My mom protected us but didn’t sugar coat the world and while it has given me street sense, it gave me a great deal of stress as a child…

SO.. what do you think we should do?
We have already been looking for a new home…. the move was NEVER a permanent solution..