Remember when we were kids how much fun sleepovers were?

I remember when my parents first started letting me sleep over at my friend’s house.  I think I was in the third grade.

I remember going to my friend’s house. It was a guy named Mark Letterman. In his room, he had his bed, and then one of those horrific 70s sofa beds. The ones that you pull out and you literally sleep the entire night on coils. You ended up waking up in the morning with pain everywhere.

There were always rules to a sleepover. We watched TV until as late as we possibly could. We’d go into the room, and we’d whisper until his parents would yell and scream for us to go to sleep.  Then we would raid the refrigerator.  It was always fun.  Even though I wasn’t hungry in the middle of the night, we would raid the refrigerator.  It’s almost as if we weren’t allowed to eat from the refrigerator before.

It’s not as if his parents deprived us of meals or didn’t let us eat things that were in the refrigerator. And we didn’t eat his dad’s favorite cookies or his mom’s f chocolate bar. Yet we had to raid the refrigerator or the sleepover wasn’t complete.

We had to wake up in the morning, act like idiots, watch cartoons, and get yelled at by his parents. Sleepovers were so much fun.  It was ridiculous.

I remember when I first became an adult and I started having adult sleepovers. I remember the first time I slept over at my girlfriend’s dorm room when I was 18 years old.  How much fun that was to wake up to something that smelled better than me.

I remember having to behave.  I remember using the bathroom in her room, and being afraid that it would stink too much from what I was doing in there, or how long I was in there for. Then I realized something.  As I got older, I started realizing that there were actually some different rules for an adult sleepover.

I remembered them the day I did this video for you.

My friend, Eddie and I started talking about sleepovers, and it reminded me of a woman that slept over at my house for the very first time. It was a few years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday. She was a chronic insomniac. All night long she moaned and groaned.  Every time she turned, every single time, she’d moan and groan.  She’d huff and puff.  I’d think to myself is she going to blow my house down like the big bad wolf?

We finally got up at 7:00 or at least I finally acknowledged her at 7:00. I said, “How did you sleep?”

She goes, “Not that great.”

I felt like saying to her, “I know. You kept me up all night long with your moans and groans.”

Let’s talk about the rules for sleeping over at a man’s house.  When you’re first sleeping over at someone’s house, it’s definitely an awkward situation. So if you’re having trouble sleeping, go home.  It really is that simple.

Second, never keep anybody up with moans and groans. It’s not their fault you have insomnia.  It’s your own problem.

Don’t rush into the first sleepover. There’s plenty of time to start sleeping over at your man’s house.  You have to learn each other’s sleeping habits. You have to learn how to sleep together. Rushing into it is not going to cement your relationship any faster. Actually it can have the opposite effect; it can drive you apart. It can make your man NOT want you to spend the night. So don’t rush it.

You have to get used to somebody in the same bed. So check out today’s video. I think you’ll get a kick out of it, for the rules to sleeping over at a man’s house. I think you’ll be very enlightened. And pass it along to all the women you know that are newly dating!