A Man's Castle

The loud music from our neighbour continued and I was going to work each day with only 1-2 hours sleep, I began to wake up with headaches that would get worse as the day continued, these turned to migrains and then just the same migraine rolled over from day to the next.

Getting up at 6am I was more effected by the noise then D who got up at 8am, he wanted to ignore the problem and I just couldn't. Soon I began to call out the council's noise team to witness the noise so they may be able to stop him but I never asked D or even considered his feelings towards this and everytime I reached for the phone he would get upset.

This was not just my home but his too and as the saying goes 'a man's house is his castle'. I hadn't considered how invaded his castle must have felt by a couple of strangers with clipboards coming into in the middle of the night, how helpless he felt watching me struggle and the feeling of being a husband unable to protect his wife.

Instead of considering these things I thought he didn't care, I thought him selfish, and once again felt alone.