Most infuriating, they do not ship a spouse by default. Had to claim mine at the store and rent out a van to transport them home.

Leaning the bed against the wall works too, no wife needed.

If you fail you can sleep in a ball on the floor crying, again no wife needed.

If you succeed you can sleep on the bed in a ball crying, wife or no wife needed, maybe just therapy and mood stabilizers.

Literally the first page of the manual has a step telling you that you will need two people.

Ikea always plays it safe. I've built this bed without help, it's fine.

I'm sure there's services that will let you rent a wife for the night. Bloody expensive though

You are building a crib, so they assumed you have a wife.

I guess I've been doing it wrong. I thought the bed was the wife. Well time to wash the sheets.

They should include one in the box if it's a required component. It's useful to have spares anyway, at the very least it means I don't have to track out to the garage in the cold, I can just keep a spare wife in the kitchen draw.

We have the same bed. Luckily I had a wife handy when putting it together.