Weird topic I know, but my wife gets mad at me because of involuntary hypnic jerks that I experience at night. We have the same routine every night. We get our 2 year old daughter to sleep between 8:30 and 9:30 then we go lay in our bed and watch tv. Laying there in the dark watching a show that I really don't enjoy my body starts to drift off, then I jerk awake. It makes her furious like to the point where she shut the tv off last night, went to the other side of the bed and told me not to touch her. When I tried to talk to her she screamed at me.

I feel like we could do something else at night to help keep me awake. Like play a card game, sit outside, talk. I can't help it that I am tired and laying in bed makes me drift off. I have never heard anything as silly as someone getting mad about an involuntary twitch.

She is diagnosed at bi-polar with ptsd and has a very short fuse. I feel like all I do is aggravate her to the point I am always feeling anxious. She won't take any meds, so won't talk to me, she won't do couples therapy anymore. She blows up and then stonewalls me for a day or two. I feel so alone.