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Women find it difficult to switch off! lose an average of 90 minutes of sleep a night.
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| Tuesday, 22 March , 2005, 16:49
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Posted on 03/22/2005 11:37:22 AM PST by bedolido
London: Women find it more difficult to switch off than men after a hard day's work or a family rift. They lie awake sulking about work or family problems and are reported to lose an average of 90 minutes of sleep a night. According to a study by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, women are significantly worse sleepers than men. Eighteen per cent of women reported a minimum of five bad nights' sleep in a week compared to only eight per cent of men.
Seventeen per cent women were disturbed by the presence of their partners in bed as compared to nine per cent men. Further, fidgety partners and restless children disturb women's sleep.
According to Dr Jenny Hislop, co-author of the report, women effectively work a 'third shift' because they psychologically carry their daily worries and duties to their bedrooms.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: disorder; health; off; sleep; switch; women
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:37:24 AM PST
by
bedolido
To: bedolido
To: bedolido
Interesting. I lost about four hours of sleep last night!
To: bedolido
Nary a word about heavy snoring...zzzzzzzZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:40:10 AM PST
by
NautiNurse
(May the road rise up to meet you; May the wind always be at your back)
To: bedolido
They need to get laid more at bed time. Any guy can tell you that helps you fall asleep right away.
To: bedolido
I believe it...My wife is always awake longer than I am. We could get into an argument and I could sleep like a baby...she would be up all night contemplating it...
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:40:39 AM PST
by
matymac
(I'm saved...are you...?)
To: bedolido
They just need to discover the joys of sex. It puts me right to sleep afterward...
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:41:13 AM PST
by
Junior
(FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
To: bedolido
It's true! My husband can fall asleep within five minutes. Also, I am the one who gets up whenever there is a sound in the house (always the kids trying to sneak into bed). I also keep getting up between 3 am and 3:15 almost every night for some reason.
To: bedolido
Hmmmmm, this must pertain to limey ladies. My American version sounds like a piledriver/learjet 10 minutes after assuming the prone position.
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:41:39 AM PST
by
zygoat
To: bedolido
This is outrageous!! How dare they claim men and women are different!
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:43:03 AM PST
by
TheDon
(The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
To: bedolido
I've always found they find it hard to switch it ON. :)
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:44:27 AM PST
by
cj2a
(When you're pathetic, but you don't know you're pathetic, that's really pathetic.)
To: matymac
I believe it...My wife is always awake longer than I am. We could get into an argument and I could sleep like a baby...she would be up all night contemplating it... OTOH, I take longer to get to sleep than my wife, does, so there goes your data-point. ;-)
This study seems to be based on very shakey evidence, if any evidence at all....
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:45:32 AM PST
by
konaice
To: bedolido
They lie awake sulking about work or family problems and are reported to lose an average of 90 minutes of sleep a night.
LOL! This must be catching, all of the Democrats (male & female)in the USA have this problem.
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:45:34 AM PST
by
hushpad
(The Slippery Slope? The Judiciary passed it a few miles back.)
To: VRWCmember
They need to get laid more at bed time. Any guy can tell you that helps you fall asleep right away.
lol... my wife pretends she's sleeping... you'd think 3 minutes of pleasure would tire her out.
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:48:13 AM PST
by
bedolido
(I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
To: bedolido
Not my wife. She starts snoring (a cute girlish snore) the minute her head hits the pillow. I tend to be awake for about an hour after turning in. It's thinking time for me, and planning time for the next day.
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:51:21 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: bedolido
I don't know about women, but I am usually asleep within 3 minutes of lying down.
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:51:29 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(Electing Hillary president would be akin to giving a drunken teenage boy keys to the Porsche)
To: MineralMan
Yep, reverse situation in my house, too.
To: bedolido
She further added that men most often act as 'gatekeepers' to women's sleep by making unnecessary demands or even disrupting their rest for example, by turning on the light to read or waking their partner to talk.
So that's how British men disrupt their wives . . . no wonder they don't have many kids!
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posted on
03/22/2005 11:57:27 AM PST
by
sittnick
(There's no salvation in politics.)
To: sittnick
So that's how British men disrupt their wives . . . no wonder they don't have many kids!A sleeping wife is easy prey!!
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posted on
03/22/2005 12:00:13 PM PST
by
Jimmyclyde
(Dying ain't much of a living boy...)
To: sittnick
That's because they know that somewhere there is a man staying up late by himself watching The Three Stooges.
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posted on
03/22/2005 12:00:20 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(massgopguy)
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