Mom Wants to Cancel Family’s Summer Vacation Because of Husband’s Loud Snoring

The woman said the family just returned from a trip away and she’s “exhausted” after getting little sleep due to her husband’s “excessive noise”

• A woman shared on a community forum that she wants to cancel her family’s summer trip because she’s worried about her husband’s snoring
• She explained that the family just returned from a trip away and she’s “exhausted” after getting little sleep due to her spouse’s “excessive noise”
• Readers sympathized with her situation and offered advice and possible solutions to the snoring problem

A woman is considering canceling her family’s summer vacation plans because of her husband’s loud snoring.

In a post on the U.K.-based community forum Mumsnet.com, the woman shared that she, her husband and their kids just returned from a trip and, instead of feeling relaxed and well-rested after the getaway, she is “exhausted.” Despite booking a three-bedroom accommodation so she could sleep alone in a separate room from her spouse, she couldn’t escape the “excessive noise” her husband made with his snoring.

“I could still hear every snort despite earplugs,” she complained.

Now, she is dreading the prospect of another sleepless vacation — and feeling the urge to bail.

“We are due to go on holiday again this summer for a week, but I just can’t do it. I get so anxious about going away nowadays purely for this, worrying that where we stay will have thin walls or that it will keep the kids awake,” the woman wrote, adding, “It also costs more having to get the extra room.”

As for how she manages at home, she explained that she and her husband no longer share a bed due to his snoring. “I’m on a pull-up bed in the spare room, which isn’t ideal,” she said.

Now, she is seeking advice on whether she should just “get over it” and go on the summer trip or cancel the vacation because “snoring is hell.”

In the comments, many readers sympathized with the woman’s situation and some offered possible solutions.

“Sharing a room with a snorer is the closest I’ve ever come to actual murder, I think. He needs to seek [medical] help,” one person wrote.

“Going without sleep is my worst nightmare, so I wouldn’t enjoy a holiday like that. Has your husband tried various cures?” another asked.

Several commenters urged the OP to have her husband see a doctor to rule out sleep apnea, a serious disorder in which breathing stops and restarts repeatedly during sleep.

Yet another reader chimed in: “I was recommended a mouthguard that you mold to the shape of your mouth/teeth and it adjusts your jaw position to prevent snoring. Worth a try. DH says when I wear it, I don’t snore at all.”

Someone else, who said her own husband is “a horrific snorer,” shared how she manages the issue while traveling. “When we go away, my [husband] wears a mouthguard and a nasal passage separator. I wear earplugs and a sleep headband that plays white noise,” she wrote. “It doesn’t stop the snoring completely, but I can at least get enough sleep to survive a holiday.”

As for going ahead with the trip, some readers told the woman to make it a condition that her husband addresses his snoring or else she cancels.

Another Mumsnet user advised her to forget about the trip and instead “spend the money on a decent bed and mattress, and decorate the spare room properly as your bedroom.”

They added: “Sleep is vital — you really need to prioritize it.”