Best Night Sleep

(A Public Service from People Who Have Made Blankets for 161 Years and Heard Everything)

You are not cold. You are unconsciously waging a textile annexation that began on your honeymoon and has never been formally addressed. The solution — two blankets, each sovereign — has existed since 1865. We make both of them.

Running at 99.8°F is not a personality. It is a thermoregulation problem with a natural fiber solution. Your partner did not sign up to sleep next to a cast iron radiator. Wool breathes. So should you.

It is 2am. You are not checking anything important. The blue light from your screen is currently visible from low Earth orbit and has fully woken your partner, the dog, and probably a few neighbors. Whatever it is, it can wait.

Setting seventeen snooze alarms is not a sleep strategy. It is an act of aggression disguised as optimism. You are not going to feel better on the fourteenth alarm. Your partner has known this since the second one.

"Hey, are you asleep?" is the most rhetorical question in the English language, always asked at the precise moment the answer becomes yes. Whatever you want to discuss — the mortgage, that thing from 2014, your feelings about the neighbors — it will still be there in the morning. Probably with more context.

Leg bouncing, finger tapping, the subtle but relentless rhythmic knee-jiggling that your partner can feel through the mattress, the bed frame, and the floor joists — none of these are neutral acts. You are keeping time to a song only you can hear. Stop.

Opening the window in February without discussion is not refreshing. It is unilateral. The thermostat is a shared instrument of democracy. Operate it accordingly, or accept that the blanket you've been stealing may be needed for reasons other than comfort.

You do not "breathe heavily." We have spoken to your partner. The noise in question has been described, variously, as a diesel generator, a congested freight train, and "something that should not be coming from a human being at rest." Consider the sleep study. For everyone's sake.

Searching for a comfortable position is reasonable. Conducting that search for forty-five minutes, through seventeen distinct configurations, including one that requires placing a knee in your partner's lower back "just temporarily," is an expedition that should have a permit.

It is Saturday. It is 5:47am. Your partner is sleeping under a Faribault Mill blanket, which means they are sleeping better than they have in years, and they were planning to do so until approximately 9. Your cheerfulness at this hour is not contagious — it is a provocation. Make coffee quietly. Come back with it. This is the entire move.

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