Couples Prefer Sleeping Separately For a Successful Marriage? Know How Not Sharing a Bed Could Benefit Relationships

Everyone has their own ways of showcasing love for their partner and intimacy is one of the factors. Talking of intimacy, the conversations or thoughts head to a bedroom most likely! Sharing a bed, sleeping and cosying together is one of the many ways couples would enjoy spending time together. Talking of married couples, a lot of them would look ahead to sleeping in each other's company, but recent studies have shown the contradictory. Couples prefer not sleeping together and it has worked in their favour. Don't let this finding confuse or shock you, but it is actually a survey-based research. Couples have said that sleeping separately has helped in keeping their marriage happy and successful. National Sleep Foundation survey had also published that one in four married couples in America prefers to sleep on separate beds or different rooms altogether.

There have been not one but several studies, all of them consistent in their results that married partners are okay with sleeping separately for their sleep health. And if you are wondering, how will an important element of sharing a bed work in favour of a happy relationship, then we too give out some possible reasons. Here is how and why sleeping separately or in different rooms could benefit your marriage. Sleep Mask to Mint-flavoured Throat Sprays, Six Products That Help Urban India Sleep its Way to a Healthy Lifestyle. 

You Have The Entire Bed to Yourself

Most of us love flipping and flopping,  spreading across the entire bed and just rolling across while we sleep. It gives a sense of freedom that you have the entire bed to yourself. If you share the bed with your partner, you are somehow limited to space on the bed and your partner can be a little intrusive at times. So make the most of the whole bed to yourself.

No Snoring Disturbance

As much as you love your partner, you cannot do with the snoring at all times. In fact, snoring can be a huge problem that you need to tend to. You cannot avoid it at all times, but then sleeping separately automatically solves it, doesn't it? You don't need to pull over a pillow over your head and ignore the snores.

Me Time On Your Bed

We all crave a little bit of me time, and what better than just lying, sleeping, lazing on your bed every night. While a someone to cuddle with feels better, you can also enjoy some me time by yourself. Just pull over a blanket, cosy up and have a good beauty sleep. Benefits of Sleeping Naked: 6 Reasons Why You Should Sleep In The Buff.

Enjoy a Good Sleep

A good sleep schedule will definitely make you feel lively and happy the next day. You must have observed that if you do not complete your sleep, you will be cranky. And it is quite possible that sometimes your partner's movements or coughing or just twist and turn can be a disturbance. Just enjoy a good sleep by yourself and wake up absolutely fresh the next day.

Solution to Different Sleep Schedules

As much as a matching compatibility is important for a relationship, it is also essential to have a matching sleep schedule. Depending on your work profile, you and your partner, unfortunately, may not be able to coincide your sleep timings. The best way is then to sleep separately. Because you are bound to get disturbed by your partner more likely than not.

No AC Temperature and Blanket Tiffs

The most common problem with sharing a bed is usually sharing a blanket together. And if your partner happens to be loving more of the quill, then tugging on the blanket in the middle of the night, is something you'd have to deal with daily. Also, you might not be used to sleeping in lower temperatures, while your partner constantly feels too hot. So these smaller differences can also affect your sleep health. So how about sleeping separately, unless you have a definite solution?

More Affectionate and Cosier Again

Sleeping apart for a few days would definitely want you to snuggle with your partner more. And much like the saying goes, 'distance makes the heart grow fonder' you too will realise what you'd been missing out for some days. There will only be more love and romance when you are sharing the bed after some gap. So why not rekindle your romance, feel happy about it all the while as you sleep separately for a few days? What is Average Number of Times Couples Have Sex Per Week? Here's What Experts Say. 

Maybe all your assumptions about cuddling, cosying and sleeping in each other arms at all times can now take a backseat. If you or your partner is demanding to sleep separately, don't start doubting or feel offended. Maybe you need to do it for a better relationship. You'd too want to experiment and see if sleeping apart is helping your relationship or marriage further? Well, for your individual benefit and sleep health, you can try and check if sleeping separately works as said by not just other people, but also science.

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