Constance Hall says she feels “lonely, resentful and exhausted” due to an ongoing problem she faces with her husband.
The mother of six children, Perthrevealed that her partner Denim Cooke has been suffering from “chronic sleep stages” since they met in 2017.
Constance said that for the past few months Denim has been sleeping all day to try to “leave himself out of the world.”
‘People think (it’s) nothing and when he was in a coma I was also angry at myself for letting something like sleeping too much get to me, but it’s nothing. “It affects 100 percent of my life,” the “mom blogger” wrote in a lengthy Facebook post.
“Half the time he’s not even really asleep, he’s lying in bed with a T-shirt around his head, isolating himself from the world. Meanwhile, our whole house is always a pigsty.
Denim was involved in a horrific motorcycle accident in August 2020 that left him in a coma. He was airlifted to a Royal Perth Hospital trauma ward where he suffered seven broken ribs, punctured lungs, multiple infections and a brain injury after slipping from his bike.
But Constance says her sleeping problems started long before her accident.
While she “loves her husband” and has overcome several problems with him in the past, Constance says she has been left in charge of the house and has a hard time keeping up with daily tasks.
The mother-of-six, from Perth, revealed her partner Denim Cooke has been plagued by stages of chronic sleep.
The controversial mummy blogger expressed her frustrations in an honest Facebook post
She said that for the past few months, Denim wouldn’t get out of bed unless she made him.
She added that when he’s not sleeping, he’s the “man of her dreams,” but when he’s not around “it’s a struggle.”
She explained that it wouldn’t be a problem if he was mindlessly scrolling on his phone or taking short 30-minute naps, but that’s not the case.
“But a friend once told me, ‘I don’t think people realize that you’re not exaggerating when you say he’ll sleep all day every day during these phases.’ I had to see it to believe it. “Feeling resentful, alone and exhausted,” she added.
‘So I’m not going to lie and say “love is all-inclusive”, I’m not going to say that being in a relationship with someone who has mental health, diagnosed or undiagnosed or someone with past or present addictions is like being with someone who it doesn’t.
Constance has tried to help Denim with the problem, but nothing seems to work.
“I think about all the things we’ve tried, the routine, the gyms, cutting out marijuana completely and then getting it back on, CBD oil, antidepressants that didn’t do anything, meditation, he was even prescribed ADHD stimulants but he refused to try them because it would prevent him from sleeping,” he said.
He’s not tired, he can’t possibly be, after weeks of sleep. Half the time he’s not even really asleep, he’s lying in bed with a t-shirt around his head, isolating himself from the world. Meanwhile, our whole house is always a pigsty,” Constance wrote.
The honest post resonates with others struggling with similar issues.
‘It’s fucking exhausting. It’s all very well that someone needs to isolate themselves from the world in order to cope, but where does that leave the woman who considers her world? he added.
‘Love and happiness do not always travel the same path. We focus on love, but sometimes that diverts me from happiness.
The honest post resonated with others struggling with similar issues.
‘I love your honesty, darling. It’s refreshing, just like you. I have followed you from the beginning and admire you as a woman and as a mother. Well done,” one wrote.
‘Thank you for being vulnerable. This world needs more of that. More truths no matter how big or small they may be. So thank you,” added another.
A third said: ‘That’s how I identify. Husband diagnosed with a mental health condition. At first he resisted diagnosis, treatment and counselling.’