Can Sleeping Apart Mend Your Marriage?
The Malaysian Women's Weekly|February/March 2020
More and more couples choose to sleep in separate beds, but this growing trend doesn’t mean the end of a loving relationship
Can Sleeping Apart Mend Your Marriage?

Reveal to others that you and your partner don’t sleep together and odds are they will jump to one of several conclusions: you don’t have sex; you don’t love – in fact, you hate each other; your relationship is one slip away from the rocks; one of you is cheating. Yet a significant number of couples have taken to separate beds, even separate rooms, to improve their relationship.

A survey of nearly 3,000 Australians by medical devices company CPAP found that 20 per cent of respondents spent between three and seven nights a week in separate bedrooms because of their or their partner’s sleep problems.

Snoring and obstructed breathing top the list of sleep behaviours that disrupt one or both bedmates. Other common complaints include one partner’s insomnia, tumultuous tossing and turning, watching TV or keeping the light on to read as the other tries to sleep, blanket-hogging, mattress space invasion, restless arms and legs (nothing like a slap in the face, a kick in the guts or up the backside as a wake-up call), frequent toilet trips, sleepwalking, wanting the bedroom too hot or cold, too dark or light for the other’s comfort.

Chronic sleep deprivation not only contributes to health issues such as high blood pressure, heart problems, obesity, mood disorders and injury from accidents, but can spell havoc for the well-being of a relationship.

Apart from making couples fight more, a lack of sleep also makes people less empathetic, more negative, more selfish and less able to defuse conflict.

“One of the real consequences of sleep loss is irritability and a change in your mood,” says Professor David Hillman, chair of the Sleep Health Foundation in Australia.

“The reason for that is that the frontal lobe is very affected by lack of sleep and that’s where your emotional modulation takes place, so the sleep-deprived brain is very sensitive.”

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