Kudos to Prudie for good advice for the snooze alarm junkie's girlfriend...but one addendum. I was in exactly the same situation with my girlfriend. The problem was definitely that she wasn't sleeping enough... so she needed to go to bed earlier. However, I wasn't tired at the time when she'd need to go to bed to get a decent night's sleep. I'd stay up, but this demotivated her to go to bed at the proper time.

The solution came when I just decided to suck it up and get up at the same time as her. My day is virtually unchanged, except that I do some things in the morning before work which I used to do in the evenings. And now our sleep schedules are more in harmony, so we have much less trouble getting up when the alarm rings.

I havent had a chance to see the video or the advice, cant view that at work. I am a snooze alarm junkie. I just have a hard time peeling myself out of bed in the morning. But, my boyfriend started doing what you did with your girlfriend, and even though I may still hit snooze once or twice, I definitely do not hit snooze for 30 minutes to an hour anymore.

I am a night person. I found it incredibly difficult to lay down by 11 or 12 (especially on a thursday... the weekend is coming!!). But after forcing myself to do it for a week or so, (with his coaxing) its easy now, and now I am not rushing around like a headless chicken in the morning anymore. And I can get through my day without a ton of caffeine.

I guess the point of my post is... its a cureable habit. And it pays off too.

Depending upon where they live, it's also possible that he has Seasonal Affective Disorder. I'm a night owl with SAD (oh the irony), and in the winter, my sleep schedule gets incredibly out of whack--it's hard for me to get to sleep before 2 a.m.. Plus the fact that it's just damned hard to get up when it's dark outside. (I have no idea how "morning" people do it when it's not even morning; there's no sun!)

The only thing that works is discipline, and it helps that I'm sensitive to noise in the first place. I'll never win any prizes for timeliness, but neither do I stroll into work an hour and a half late (at least, not any more). Gadgets help; for about 3 months of the year, I have my bedside lamp plugged into a Christmas tree timer, so that my radio and the light go on at roughly the same time.

If the BF cannot or will not address his sleep problems, or if the LW cannot or will not have the patience to work with him on them, might I suggest separate bedrooms? If everything else is great, with the exception of their sleep incompatibility, why throw the baby out with the bathwater?

I like a1re's idea, but my husband won't try it.

I disagree that it is as simple as Prudie seems to think - her solution of getting an alarm with no snooze is just as likely to result in him losing his job.

That's not a "life lesson" I would wish on anyone, especially in today's job market.

Snoozing is an addictive habit that creeps up on you. A "cold turkey" solution is not going to work for everyone.