My husband is not a body pillow

Of all of the challenges that I knew I would face entering marriage, I didn't think that sleeping would be one of them. I had grand visions back in high school of how lovely it would be to snuggle up with my honey for bedtime. I would lay down with my body pillow Johnny (named after Johnny Depp of course) and imagine cuddling under my husbands shoulder, laying my hand on his chest and laying my leg over his body. Then I started sharing a bed with the hubs and all of those visions of cuddly splendor went away.

This isn't to say that I dislike sleeping in the same bed as the hubs - I enjoy it very much and it is one of the wonderful benefits of marriage - but it isn't as natural and easy as I thought sleep would be. There are many reasons why this is more challenging than I first anticipated:

1. People take up space. This may not come as a big shock to you, but for some reason I was surprised by this. I went from sleeping in my very own queen sized bed to having to share the same amount of space. While I realize that I only take up about 1/2 of the bed when I completely spread out I like taking my half out of the middle. Unfortunately the hubs and the poodle also both like using the middle half.

2. People move. The hubs doesn't roll over too much in his sleep. He sleeps on his back pretty much the whole night. But for some reason, about a half an hour after he falls asleep, he puts his hand on his forehead. This wouldn't be a big deal except every 15 seconds or so his hand slips off of his forehead and he jerks his hand back into place so it can slide off again. This is pretty loud in the deep dark night. Just imagine somebody rubbing their hands through their hair quickly just 12 inches from your head.

3. People generate heat. During the winter this is actually a nice feature of the hubs. However he has a very fast metabolism and during the 90-100 degree nights of summer this is very unpleasant. We also have different blanket preferences. I tend to get cold much more often than him. Even if we both agree on using the sheet, I will pull the comforter up over myself when I get chilled. However the comforter spans the whole bed and gets pulled up over the hubs. He then will throw his half over me and then I am too warm because I am covered with a sheet and a double layer of comforter. Temperature regulation is quite a problem.

The greatest conundrum of all of this is that when the hubs is on call and I am home alone I can't sleep. I have taken to sleeping on the couch because it feels less weird than sleeping in the bed by myself. Maybe I should invest in another body pillow for those nights on call and go back to pretending that people conform to the shape of my body, don't move and don't make heat.