Snoring can sound like a freight train.

It has also been described as, sawing logs, dreaming of motorcycles, purring. Calling the pigs. There's just so many ways to describe snoring.

My husband has always been a snorer. I mean a serious snorer. The kind of snorer that if he decides to "rest his eyes" or "think", while watching a movie, we would have to crank the volume so we wouldn't miss anything.

 All the years of our marriage, I've had a love hate with his snoring. There were nights in our younger years that it bothered me way more than it does today.

I can remember plugging his nose until he'd gasp and slightly wake, but never long enough for me to beat him back to sleep, but sometimes it did change the rumble or would soften his snore.

In the last ten years or so, I find his snoring "comfortable". It actually helps me sleep. It's like my very own sound machine. I think actually it could be considered "brown noise".

In recent years I have joined the "snore" team. I didn't believe my husband when he told me that I was snoring, but I have woke myself up a time or two. I have also woke in the morning with a very dry sore throat.

I initially blamed it on my Sertraline, as at one time for my anxiety, I was on a very high dose, high enough to have uncontrolled twitches at times. As I was able to decrease my dose, the snoring didn't stop. 

I'm certain it is probably my weight. Weight gain and perimenopause can do crazy things to a body.

I always feel so well rested every morning, so the snoring is not affecting me that way.

My poor husband though, I honestly think he has considered smothering me with a pillow some nights. He's waken me up, not always so pleasantly, but  huffing and puffing... swearing. I wake all concerned and wanting to know what the matter, only to find that I was the matter. 

To me, it's kind of like "backatcha", for all the sleepless nights I had endured in our younger years, but I also know how frustrating it is and just how important sleep is especially at our age.

Most nights, it's okay. The rule is that he has to fall asleep first. The problem is the occasional event that he may wake up in the middle of the night and then the only chance of him going back to sleep is to go to the couch.

I've heard of couples that have separate bedrooms or one always sleeps on the couch, I'm glad that for now, we are able to still sleep together in the same room, at least we start out that way anyway.

 Serene slumber snoring, it's not for everyone.