Apparently a lot of people who share a double bed do. A lot of reports have been in the news recently about the fact that sharing a bed isn’t actually the best thing for you. It might be the way that most couples – married or not – conduct their lives, but could the tide start to turn the other way in the near future?
Firstly, do you know why couples sleep together? We might think it is simply how we want to live our lives – being close to the one we love when we sleep. But while that is a lovely notion it isn’t the reason why this began in the first place. The trouble is that most people don’t know what that reason was.
In actual fact the practice began when times were hard and people were forced to share a bed because they were very much restricted on room size and on the beds themselves. Sleeping in separate beds simply wasn’t an option – there was no room and no chance of spreading out in this way.
But it seems that even now we have more room and this isn’t an issue any more, the practice has stuck and we are still sleeping together now. Many would say this is a nice leftover from those days long in the past, but that isn’t necessarily the case.
If you have a partner who snores, fidgets or simply tosses and turns all night, then you will know that a good night’s sleep isn’t always that easy to come by. And this is why several experts now agree that sleeping alone – whether in a single or a double bed – is better than sleeping with your partner.
It will be interesting to see whether the idea catches on in the years to come though. Many couples, despite the fact they moan about their partner’s snoring, are reluctant to sleep in different beds. Perhaps they think it somehow means they are growing apart?
This seems to be far from the case though, if research into the subject is to be believed. It would seem that many couples who take up separate beds actually enjoy a better life together – in every sense of the word – than couples who stay together in the marital double bed. They sleep better and feel better during the day, and they tend to have more energy to expend together before they go to their separate beds at night as well!
So you see it may be to our benefit to buy another double bed and have one each instead of sharing one. You can of course spend the odd night together if you wish – that is the beauty of this arrangement. It actually gives you a lot more freedom than you would have otherwise, and few couples who have tried it actually go back to the way things were before.
Would it suit you and your partner though? There is only one way to find out – and that is to give it a try.