Sleep is one of the most basic human needs needs, but when you share a bed with someone else, getting enough of it can sometimes be an uphill battle.

One woman struggled with nightly interruptions from her partner, and, in her sleep deprived state, a small dispute over a pillow was all it took to bring simmering tensions to a fever pitch.

Read on for the full story.

AITA for asking my fiancé to move his pillow so that I could get into bed?

I know sleep is a sore subject, and when you haven’t gotten a lot, you can act differently than you normally would.

Sleep hadn’t exactly come easily for her in recent weeks.

I had already been struggling to sleep this night and most nights.

I usually wake up having to pee and then get back in bed, usually very tired and ready to go to sleep.

She thinks some of this may have to do with her partner.

However, my partner sometimes moves a lot while I am trying to sleep, like once every ten minutes.

I know this isn’t his fault, so I don’t blame him, I just try to keep sleeping.

But one night, all of the underlying tensions soon boiled to the surface.

Tonight, when I got back in bed, his pillow was shoved under the corner of my pillow, making it impossible for mine to even lay flat.

I told him, “Hey, your pillow is under mine,” and moved it a little.

He didn’t take kindly to being woken up.

I think this jarred him awake, making him upset, and I believe he hasn’t gotten the sleep he has been needing.

He gets up in a huff, goes to the bathroom, then comes back to tell me something. I said we could discuss it in the morning, as I didn’t want to argue—I just wanted to sleep.

He can’t seem to let this go.

He comes back with, “Yeah, I wish you would have done that,” as in, not woken him up to tell him about his pillow.

But she still finds herself frustrated too.

I am really not sure here.

Though I know I exhibited AH behavior, I don’t think I was overtly trying to be one or selfish. I take up only a 1/4 of the bed. I just want to sleep, guys.

AITA?

Is a sleep divorce in this couple’s future?

Let’s find out what Reddit had to say.

It’s time to start speaking up and demanding more space from her partner.

This commenter seems to think there are much deeper issues at play here.

This situation really didn’t warrant such a dramatic reaction from her partner.

If anything, her partner’s overreaction simply reinforces the selfishness that brought them to this point in the first place.

Sleep is a right — and she deserves a more comfortable place to lay her head.

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