FamilySilentGuppy

5 Sept 2 min read

I’M TIRED OF FIGHTING WITH MY SIBLING OVER SLEEP

I share a room with two of my siblings, and honestly, living together has become exhausting because we argue over almost everything. The biggest problem, however, is our youngest sibling. She sleeps extremely late almost every night—sometimes as late as 12 a.m., 1 a.m., or even 2 a.m. The problem isn't even that she stays awake. The problem is that whenever the rest of us have already gone to bed, she comes into the room, turns on one of the lights, and starts her entire nighttime routine. And trust me, it takes forever. By the time she's finally ready to sleep, I’m already wide awake and frustrated. To make matters worse, she insists on sleeping with a night light. The rest of us cannot sleep when there's any light on. We've tried calmly explaining this to her countless times, but it's like talking to a wall. She refuses to compromise. And whenever I specifically ask her to hurry up or go to sleep because I'm tired, she gets angry. There have even been times when she has hit me over it. What makes me even more frustrated is that the next morning, she expects everyone to be extremely quiet while she's sleeping. If I make even the slightest noise while getting up to use the bathroom, she'll complain and get angry, as if she didn't keep everyone awake for hours the previous night. We've considered telling our parents, but we already know how it will go. They'll scold her for a few minutes, everyone will calm down, and then after a couple of days, we'll be right back where we started. But last night, something happened that none of us expected. She came into the room at around 1 a.m. and turned on the light like she always does. I finally confronted her about it, and after we started arguing, she suddenly said something that left both me and my other sibling completely speechless. Then she did something even worse. She went straight to our parents' room, woke them up, and told them a completely different version of what had happened—making it look like I was the one bullying her. And now my parents are angry with me. I genuinely don't know what to do anymore because if I defend myself, it looks like I'm attacking her again. So tell me honestly: if you were in my position, would you keep trying to solve this yourselves, or finally involve your parents and tell them EVERYTHING that's been happening?