Who needs marriage counseling when you can take a trip to your local Home Depot … or Menards if you’re nasty?

That’s the lesson that TikTok’s latest sleep influencer/apparent wife guy @curious.george.369 said he learned after a lone plank of wood (and, like, some foam and a bedsheet) helped him comfortably sleep next to his spouse for the first time in roughly half a year.

After sleeping on a cot next to his wife for roughly six months due to back pain evidently exacerbated by their bed –  “it’s just too soft, even though we got a firm mattress,” he exclaimed  – @curious.george.369 recently decided to take matters into his own hands, outfitting his mattress with a slab of wood.

@curious.george.369 #badback #mattress #wifeandhusband ♬ original sound - George 369

“I’ve been kind of halfway joking telling my wife ‘Hey, I’m just gonna go to Lowes or Home Depot to actually get a piece of plywood and sleep on it so that way I can actually sleep in the same bed with you,’” he explained in his viral video, which has garnered more than 2.2 million views.

“Well, I did this morning,” he announced, showing photos of his hardware haul. “I got it cut for a twin-size mattress dimension for my half of the bed and wrapped it with some foam.”

After taking a few other steps to make the board as comfy as, well, a wood plank bed could possibly be, sanding the border and adding a few extra layers of padding, @curious.george.369 said he knew he was on the right track.

@curious.george.369 Replying to @Elisheva McCarley #badback #mattress #wifeandhusband ♬ original sound - George 369

“I mean, seriously ya’ll, this is totally gonna work,” he concluded his viral video, laying back down onto his DIY extra extra extra firm bed. “As soon as I laid here, I thought ‘uh yeah, we’re in business, I can sleep here.’”

This hunch wasn’t wrong. Four nights later, @curious.george.369 took to the platform to offer an update about just how much his wooden bed – complete with a few extra tweaks he added in subsequent days –  had improved his bedtime routine.

“Four nights in a row, it’s been awesome. I’ve loved it,” he shared.

Wood – @curious.george.369 definitely would.