Sharing a bed may not be conducive for sleep
Posted on 09/10/2009 8:41:28 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Couples should consider sleeping apart for the good of their health and relationship, say experts. Sleep specialist Dr Neil Stanley told the British Science Festival how bed sharing can cause rows over snoring and duvet-hogging and robs precious sleep. One study found that, on average, couples suffered 50% more sleep disturbances if they shared a bed.
Dr Stanley, who sleeps separately from his wife, points out that historically we were never meant to share our beds. He said the modern tradition of the marital bed only began with the industrial revolution, when people moving to overcrowded towns and cities found themselves short of living space.
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Sharing a bed may not be conducive for sleep
I call BS! LOL
My grandparents (10 kids) lived in a one room log cabin!
It’s only been in the last few decades that people have had beds/rooms to themselves.
Hubby got me a card with that image on it. I think it said Happy Birthday Icicle Toes. :)
I think we'll keep it that way.
My poor husband has put up with me for almost 39 yrs and last year we came up with a solution that works, we sleep in the same king-sized bed but we each have our own twin-sized bedclothes.
Sometimes the old ways are not always the best ways.
Married and dating couples should not share the same COUNTY, much less the same bed.
How am I supposed to sleep with the Ta Ta’s makin’ a ruckus?
It is only lately, in the last 200 years, that western society has had the wealth to sleep separatley. I read that during the War of Independance most colonial families all slept in the same bed! No doubt warmth was a factor. No wonder kids left home at 14 back then.
Personally, I think it's fun to sleep next to someone, kinda like camping. But I've only been married a year and I'm sure the glow will wear off.
Sorry, I meant last 100 or so years. More coffee, Stat!
My ex-wife always insisted that I be on top, so I bought bunk beds.
Bad as she is I love her and she sleeps on my shoulder, it really is after kids and family, friends our best time. ( of course I have no bad habits )
I would never wake up any other way.
duvet-hogging ???
On the contrary ... the sleep may not come right away ...
Traditionally an entire human family would reside and sleep in the same room; and everyone would pretend they didn't hear and/or see people gettin’ busy.
And while getting used to sleeping with someone can be problematic, once you ARE used to it, sleeping alone is miserable. As Lenny Bruce said of his ex wife Honey Bruce ‘I felt like that dopey kid on Peanuts with his blanket, I couldn’t get to sleep without her!’.
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