I need to get up without waking the wife and kids, I got a smartwatch to vibrate and it woke her. The alarm is always going to wake the house.

Is there anything else?

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I can’t imagine that you can get out of bed without waking your wife if your smartwatch vibrating wakes her up.

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Depends where the arm is I think. When it vibrates under the pillow you’re using, it can sound very loud

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I assume that OP isn’t sleeping with the wrist wearing the watch underneath the pillow their wife has her head on.

Pulling your arm from under a pillow someone is using seems very likely to disturb them and wake them. You’re not doing that, OP, right?

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Idk, my husband can sneak out of bed, but his phone vibrating in the bed wakes me. Even if it’s just a little zzt to indicate a text has come in. I guess it’s one of the noises I’m “listening for”?

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Well, I’m sure you’re right.

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Vibrating butt plug with timer

Realistically, your wife is your partner and some sacrifices need to be made. If she can’t sleep through a watch, she should consider earplugs or just deal. I’m sure you silence it and leave the room ASAP so, that’s just life of sharing a room with a spouse.

Edit like literally millions of spouses have tolerated their other rising before them, it’s a normal part of the deal

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Plus you can make a side hustle by cheating at chess

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My dad has had the single fucking loudest alarm clock for literally my entire life. It’s such a god awful racket. It had to be, because my dad has the worst snoring I’ve heard in my life. Man sounds like a chainsaw, and you can hear him clear across the house. My mom would sleep directly through it all. It’s wild.

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Damn, I was coming here to say this. All I can add is that maybe sleep on your stomach with one of these, otherwise it could wake her up vibrating the mattress, since she sounds like a light sleeper.

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If your wife is such a light sleeper that a vibrating watch is waking her perhaps sleeping in a separate room when you need to wake up at a certain time would work?

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Separate rooms is definitely not an option. It’s not so much super light sleeper just she is nursing and I’d like to get a workout in before everyone else wakes. If I wake the kids we’re all screwed if I wake her I ruin what peace she gets.

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Sounds like you need to change the time you do the workout.

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Why because my two options are don’t get up early or sleep separately?

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Put the watch on your ankle? Probably idiotic, but that might be silent enough. And you’d have to do some work to make it stop, waking you up efficiently.

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Try a different watch or adjust the haptics to make it vibrate less? Casio sells an inexpensive alarm watch that vibrates if you can’t dial the watch back.

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A split king bed did wonders for my wife and I. I never feel her move. Now, if it’s noise that wakes her up, a sound machine could help.

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Split king? So, two mattresses and one duvet, is it?

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Lol I know the 5g stuff is a stupid myth but sleeping with a Bluetooth device strapped to your cranium feels like it’s putting the research conclusions to the test

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I don’t suppose there’s room for a bed in the babies’ room, so after the mid-night nursings she could sleep in there until they’re hungry again? Only if she wants to, of course. It can be more restful than trying to sleep with your ears on High for sounds of distress from the other room, which also makes you oversensitive to hubby’s alarm.

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The baby is in our room, and the others have their own, but the house is old and creaky, so I tread carefully.

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Literally or figuratively?

Could you or her be occupying another room for a few weeks/months or is it worth a fight

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What I’m trying to do is not worth sleeping alone, I just want to get a workout in before the day starts and waking anyone will just start the day earlier. But sleeping separately is worse than being out of shape.

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And why is a different room definitely not an option?

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prob bc houses have finite space

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Because this is an ongoing situation, and I don’t want to sleep without my partner.

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in a strange twist, the chess world already solved this one. Vibrating buttplug

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Was there a scandal where a chess player had a vibrating buttplug controlled by another person giving him the answers? That’s….dedication I guess

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I believe it was more like: a guy was accused of cheating (against Magnus Carlsen), and anarchychess on reddit came up with the buttplug theory. Now everyone thinks it actually happened.

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There was, and then some guy put it to the test á la mythbuster style. I’ll leave the conclusion for you to enjoy

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With some sort of link I assume? Or no.

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If Lemmy had awards I’d give you one because I really thought I was gonna be original by bringing that up but no, you beat me to it, well done

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It waa the first thing I thought of as well so there are at least 3 of us.

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Yo

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Drink several glasses of water before going to bed so you wake up to pee.

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That could work, I’d need to figure out how long it takes to get to pee time from drinking.

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Practice, practice, practice!

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But not too much practice

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Damn that is genius

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Yep. That’s where I learned it from, too. The first 9 seasons of the Simpsons was the greatest thing to ever come from American Television.

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