Who else likes to move furniture at midnight?

Who else likes to move furniture at midnight? Just me?

I periodically rearrange furniture in my home late at night.

By myself. In the dark. Moving a full bookshelf across the room without waking my husband or scratching the floor. (Usually.)

When my husband and I first moved in together, I'd periodically get the urge to switch things up. Move the couch. Rotate the bookshelf. Try the chair in a different corner. I’ve done this in my room my whole life, so this was normal stuff for me.

For my husband? Not normal at all.
Highly stressful, in fact.

I'd ask for his help or his opinion on configurations and… deer in headlights. Change is not his jam. 😅 (That thing where we marry our dads? Fully applies here. 😂)

So eventually I stopped asking.

Now I move things when he's asleep or out of town. And I text him a heads up before he walks back into the room: "I might have moved a few things 😉"

He loves this system. I'm not joking. He gets a few minutes to react and adjust rather than trying to keep his blood pressure level while I move things around, draw pictures, reconfigure, look at pictures online, etc.

This is also why basically all my adult furniture is from IKEA. I need to be able to move it myself. At midnight. Also I’m getting older so… my body thanks me for lightweight.

Some quirks don’t need fixing. They just need a workaround that your partner can live with. 🤩

What's a workaround you created to save sanity in a relationship, work or personal?


Image: requisite IKEA selfie from a few years ago (spot the COVID mask 😉), and no, I didn't end up buying this mirror.