My body always wakes up around 7am (maybe 7:20ish at the latest). It is frustrating because DH takes the dog and goes to bed around 9pm. I go around 11pm. Then the dog wakes around 4-5am and I am the one who has to get him. I take him to the living room and go back to sleep on sofa and the dog lays there and goes back to sleep too (so why the scratching at the side of our bed at 4-5am???). But DH then gets up around 5-6am and his going in kitchen to run the Keurig and all that disturbs my sleep. Why he can't do the dog in the AM since he's the one who takes him to bed so early (and I suspect his snoring is what makes the dog scratch at 4-5am)? In his mind it's because he works and I don't...I guess. But I am not getting decent sleep and am rather grumpy and my back hurts from trying to sleep on the sofa. DH's answer is to go to bed when he does. No thanks to 9pm bedtime...I am not 80. I take to the guest room every once in a while too (when I need to replenish but still will wake at 7am...though will get undisturbed sleep...even if I take the dog as he sleeps in when it's just me which is why I suspect it's DH's snoring that wakes him at 4-5am). I have begged DH to meet in middle and we all go to bed at 10ish but he won't. He gets plenty of sleep, even waking at 5am.