A Bride Wants to Call Off Her Wedding Because Her Fiancé Grinds His Teeth and Won't Wear a Night Guard

The teeth-grinding is "nails on a chalkboard level of awful," the bride-to-be wrote on Reddit

A bride-to-be is soliciting advice over whether she should call off her wedding due to her fiancé's "nails on a chalkboard level" teeth-grinding — and continued refusal to wear a mouth guard at night.

In a post on Reddit, the bride-to-be — who identifies herself as a 29-year-old — said that she and her 25-year-old fiancé have been living together for two and a half years and that both share the bad habit of grinding their teeth at night.

The difference, she added, is that she wears a mouth guard every night while he does not.

"For at least the last year I have been asking him to wear a night guard as I can hear him grinding his teeth at night," she wrote. "It's to the point where sometimes it even wakes me up, but generally it is just a very unpleasant sound. (Nails on a chalkboard level of awful.)"

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The bride-to-be added that, when her fiancé first became aware of the habit, he started wearing a night guard, but would "spit it out in his sleep."

"That happened enough that our dog got ahold of it and chewed it up," she noted. "He replaced it a couple times, at my request, but eventually stopped. For a while I let it go as it wasn’t waking me up and overall I didn’t notice it."

But a few months later, she began to notice it again.

"Since then," she wrote, "there have been countless nights of me waking him up to put the retainers in. I try every way possible to wake him nicely, but eventually I have to shake him awake enough and he puts them in while half awake and mad. In the morning I will tell him about it and he says he doesn’t remember."

She's since told her fiancé how bothered she is by his habit, though things haven't changed. Now, she shared that she's at her wit's end.

"The last time I brought it up I lost my mind," she included in the post. "I started yelling and screaming telling him I can’t stand it anymore. I can’t sleep. The sounds makes me want to rip my ears off etc. He slept on the couch that night and said he would try to wear it more and apologized. He did for a night or two and is now back to not wearing it again."

Writing that she "can’t live the rest of [her] life like this," the poster continued: "I don’t know how else to explain to him how much it bothers me. If he wanted to discuss compromise (or discuss it at all beyond complaining about wearing one and making empty promises to wear it) I would offer to wear earplugs or something but at this point it’s the principle of it."

His disregard of the issue, she said, makes her feel "like he just doesn’t respect me/my needs nor does he seem to care to try and fix it."

"So wibta for calling off the wedding over this?" the bride added.

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Commenters have weighed in, with one explaining that she dealt with something similar with her fiancé, who also snores at night.

"I think it might be time for a sit down as grown ups, talk about what waking up to his teeth grinding does for you, letting him know it comes from a place for care about him and care about a relationship where you both pitch in and try to work stuff out instead of ignoring problems until it's too late, and that you're willing to help him find information about this and support him or go with him to a dentist if he feels uncomfortable going by himself," the commenter shared.

Another person wrote that the teeth grinding "sounds like it's the tip of the iceberg for issues, and this is something you've latched onto to justify yourself for wanting to pull out now."

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