“Interestingly, couples said they slept better when they were sharing a bed with their partner,” says David K. One sleep study had couples sleep separately one night and together another night, while measuring each person’s brain waves to assess sleep quality. He adds that research has shown that up to 50 percent of your nightly sleep disturbances are caused by the person you share a bed with.īut but but, you say, I can’t sleep without my boo beside me! It’s a very nice thought, but that’s probably about all it is. Poor sleep has been linked with higher rates of depression, obesity, diabetes, heart disease and hypertension, to name just a few of the lasting consequences of too little sleep, Stanley says. He thinks the 40 percent figure sounds about right for that age group. “When you are young or in the first flush of a relationship, I don’t think sleeping separately is very common, but when you get to middle age you are perhaps more pragmatic.” Some couples might also have more space, since their children have grown up and left home.
Neil Stanley, a UK sleep specialist, said in an email. More couples might start sleeping separately as they get older, Dr.
“He snores loud and moves (too) much keeping me up all night.” And despite their bedtime separation, Garcia Lopez says, “We are very happy.” reader Nikki Garcia Lopez said on our Facebook page yesterday that she and her husband of 17 years have slept in separate rooms for 10 of those years.
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