He sleeps in pajamas, a man his age. Matching top and bottom pajamas with flowery designs. The first time I saw it, it felt kind of weird, but I grew to accept that people are different, and there are some who will sleep in matching pajamas no matter the weather.

I’m a free-range kind of sleeper. I don’t plan my sleep or prepare for it. I would be reading or watching TV, start dozing off, and finally decide to go to bed. It’s the reason I never got used to wearing a nightie.

We’ve dated for almost six months, and all of a sudden he has a problem with me because I sleep naked. He wants me to look like a gift before going to bed, a gift he can carefully unwrap to see what’s inside the box. I told him, “That’s not my way. I will never be comfortable sleeping in clothes. The only thing my skin wants to touch is my bedsheet and your skin.”

We argued about this until one day he bought me a nightie that looked like something a witch would wear. I tried it, but I couldn’t get used to it. There was a long piece hanging down the back that nearly strangled me while I was asleep.

“No, this won’t work.”

“It will. Keep wearing it, and you’ll get used to it.”

Because of this nightie fight, I have stopped spending the night with him. He’s trying to force me into something I’m not. And because I no longer spend the night with him, he feels I’m seeing someone else. He makes every little misunderstanding feel like we are at war.

He comes to my place unannounced, thinking he will catch me with someone. I tell him, “I don’t like a man who takes sleeping so seriously that he would buy clothes for it, but I didn’t complain, so why do you want me to wear a nightie by all means?”

I Called My Girlfriend And Another Man Answered The Phone

He answered, “You’re a lady, and you have to sleep like one.”

Herh, I can’t.

Now I understand married couples who fight over little things or even divorce over little issues. See how something as small as a nightie is shaking my relationship. I understand that he likes his woman a certain way, but I don’t want to start something I can’t continue. Am I asking for too much?

—Victoria

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