Each room request is ignored. My husband wakes me up every time I go to bed, so I’m having a hard time

A story of a woman considering divorce due to her husband, who wakes her up by yelling or startling her whenever she snores while sleeping, has been shared.

The woman initially suggested using separate rooms, but it was reported that her husband has been persistently refusing this.

On the 12th, a woman, Mrs. A, who has been married for four years, posted an article titled ‘I want to divorce my husband who wakes me up whenever I fall asleep’ on an online community.

Mrs. A lamented, “I have chronic rhinitis, so my snoring is quite severe. I feel sorry for my husband, so I suggested using separate rooms, but he insists it’s okay and bravely sleeps next to me.”

She further explained, “When I fall asleep before my husband because I’m so tired, if I snore, he wakes me up by yelling or startling me, which makes me feel bad.”

Mrs. A revealed, “Even when I warn him not to do it and tell him to sleep in another room, he absolutely refuses to. If I go to another room, he follows me.”

She added, “Even when I can’t sleep and have to wake up early the next day, he wakes me up when I finally fall asleep by snoring. At that time, he is playing and watching YouTube.”

Mrs. A confessed, “I wait for my husband to fall asleep first, but he doesn’t sleep well because he watches YouTube. I don’t understand why he wakes up someone who is sleeping while he is not sleeping because he is watching YouTube. I got angry with my husband and even hit him, but he just laughs it off.”

Finally, she asked, “I am a person for whom sleep is very important, and I want to sleep comfortably, but my husband keeps waking me up lately, so I’m very stressed. Even now, I’m awake because of my husband and in another room. I’m completely awake. I have to wake up at 7 in the morning, and it’s very annoying. Can this be a reason for divorce?”

According to Article 840 (6) of the Civil Act of the Republic of Korea, if a spouse or his/her direct ascendant commits extremely unfair actions, making it difficult to continue married life, it can be a ground for divorce.

If a spouse continues to wake the other intentionally, it can cause significant disruption to the other’s health and daily life (causing fatigue, depression, decreased concentration, worsening marital relationship, etc.), and a divorce lawsuit can be filed.

However, if a spouse’s sleep is disturbed by accident or simple mistake, it is not recognized as a ground for divorce.