My father has sleep apnea and it is very serious. He sleeps in a separate bedroom from my stepmother and uses a CPAP machine to aid his breathing. All very noisy.
As for the OP, I have lived with men who snore and I don't mind getting up and sleeping somewhere else when it bothers me. I mean, they can't help that they snore. And those breathe right strips don't always work. So whenever I have found myself lying there listening to someone snore without being able to fall back to sleep, I move to the couch or somewhere else in the house. No biggie.
As a note, my second husband used to get mad at me when I'd move to the couch. As if it were my duty to lie there staring at the ceiling listening to what sounded like him hacking up hairballs in his sleep. But he was an asshole, so...whatever.
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