Seperate Beds...
By twoey68
@twoey68 (13627)
United States
October 12, 2007 1:09pm CST
Do you or couples you know sleep in seperate beds? Do you think you ever could?
Hubby has a bone disease that causes him alot of pain at times but I still wouldn't want to sleep in a seperate bed. Not to mention, we have a waterbed and I sleep like a baby in it. But I do know couples that haven't slept in the same bed for years...for various reasons. I just sleep better knowing he is next to me.
Could you stand to sleep apart...maybe in completely different rooms?
**AT PEACE WITHIN**
~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~
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61 responses
@mamasan34 (6518)
• United States
12 Oct 07
No I don't think I could sleep in a seperate bed away from my spouse. I do that enough as it is when he is gone on deployments and training lol! I have known couples who were having problems and just lived together for the sake of the kids and they didn't sleep together. I just don't get it. My father and mother pretty much argue every minute they are in the same house at the same time and they sleep in the same bed and have for 35 years. I don't blame you for wanting to sleep in the same bed with your husband. I wouldn't have it any other way.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
12 Oct 07
I had a FREE ROOM RECENTLY AT A LOCAL CASINO COMPED TO ME. i HAD PLANNED ON STAYING THERE. mY WIFE WORKED THE FOLLOWING MORNING AND DIDN'T WISH TO STAY AT THE CASINO SO i WENT ALONE. aFTER MY TIME GAMBLING CAME TO AN END i WENT TO THE ROOM FOR A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP. hahaha! iT DIDN'T FEEL RIGHT NOT HAVING HER COLD FEET AGAINST MY LEGS. i GOT UP, CHECKED OUT AT 2 A.M. AND HEADED HOME TO SLEEP WITH MY WIFE. i'M SUCH A WOOS AT TIMES. sorry dang caps locked (again) Grrrr!
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~
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@elemental69 (1561)
• Ireland
12 Oct 07
That is something I could never do, and neither could my husband. We have very rarely spent a night apart. The only times that has happened was when I had to spend a night in hospital when I had a baby. One of my sister in laws has a seperate bedroom to her husband. He works away during the week, and he is at home at weekends. But at weekends my sister in law spends the nights at her mothers. I have often thought this as wierd but I would never ask about it.
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@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
12 Oct 07
Nope, I wouldn't want separate beds no matter what the excuse might be. I know some people that do sleep separately and I guess if that works for them then fine, I just know it wouldn't work for me, no matter how much of a bed hog my wife was.... :)
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@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
12 Oct 07
I wouldn't mind sleeping in seperate beds from my hubby. He is a bed hog and he snores. When he work nights, I sleep so much better than when I sleep with him.
@stephanie78 (122)
• United States
13 Oct 07
I secretly LOVE when my husband has to work at night and can have the bed completely to myself.
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@whywiki (6066)
• Canada
12 Oct 07
I don't even like a king size bed because I can't feel his warmth in the night. I just don't sleep well without him at my side. My girlfriend and her hubby had separate beds for awhile due to health problems and she quite liked it. My aunt and uncle have had separate beds for 50 years and they swear by it.
@crazed_moma (1054)
• United States
12 Oct 07
I use to think the same way but you'd be surprised how hard it can be to fall asleep that way!
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
12 Oct 07
me and hubby always slept in the same bed I had told him once that I never wanted it to be like my grand parents and his parents for it seemed to me like they didnt love one another and wehn he got ill we still slept side by side even if we were in different recliners we could still hold hand if we wanted to but that was about the last month he was alive.
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@bonbon664 (3466)
• Canada
12 Oct 07
We sleep together, except when one of us is sick. In that case, boot, boot, hubby is sent to the guest room. I don't want him to get me sick. Other than that, same bed. Although, my parents sleep apart now. They are approaching their 60th wedding anniversary, and they claim that's what kept them together so long, my mom couldn't stand the snoring anymore, and moved to another room about 10 years ago. So, while I like hubby beside me, others find it better to sleep separate.
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@sweetgirl_k1 (3972)
• United States
12 Oct 07
My husband and I sleep in the same bed. I don't want to sleep in separate beds. I like him sleeping in the bed with me because if I get cold then I just scrunch up to him and he keeps me warm. When he is out of town I don't sleep good and I think it's because I'm so used to him being beside of me. My great grandma and her husband used to sleep in different beds in different rooms. I always wondered why they did that but I never asked. That's the only people that I know that slept in separate beds.
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@seabeauty (1480)
• United States
12 Oct 07
Sometimes I sleep with my husband and sometimes I don't.
I stay up later than him and he needs get up at 3am to go to work so I sleep on the sofa bed so I don't wake him up.
I prefer my own bed and my own room personally.
Before we married I vowed never to sleep with him in the same bed because I was used to having my own. Couldn't imagine back then having to share space.
I am more comfortable that way because he snores and he is 6'4 so he takes up most of the bed when he sleeps diagonally.
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@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
12 Oct 07
My late inlaws after many years lsept in not only separate beds but separate rooms because he snored so loudly. My parents had a double bed at one point but when my mother was ill with cancer they switched to twin beds cause it was more cormfortable for her.
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@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
12 Oct 07
It might sound strange, twoey, but I actually prefer sleeping alone. The only time I can really sleep undisturbed and get a good nights rest is when I sleep alone. Believe me, if you had to share a bed with someone who snores heavily or likes to hog the covers, you would much rather sleep alone. I even bought my ex those devices that fit on the nose to stop his snoring. He used it one time and declared that he didn't like it. Also, I am a very light sleeper most of the time, so the slightest movement will awaken me. Then I have a problem getting back to sleep again. That is why I prefer sleeping alone.
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@bizmom (515)
• United States
12 Oct 07
Oh i feel for thos couples that cant or just dont sleep in the same bed with thier spouse! :(
BUT hubby & I would never actually SLEEP if we slept in seperate beds! :( we like cuddling up together every night WAY TOO MUCH!! :)
i cant sleep till hes actually in the bed with me so i usually wait up reading or im on here *wink* :) xx
the second hes in bed with me im OFF sleeping like a log!
SO NO hubby & I would NEVER sleep in seperate beds :(
( UNLESS GOD FORBID we HAD to!)
XX :)
@TerryZ (22076)
• United States
12 Oct 07
I wouldnt like it but I do understand when someone is in pain they do tend to bother the other person. I have been having pain and I dont like to wake my partner up because he has to get up early and work late. I sometimes wish I had another bed so I dont bother him.
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@cwilson26 (2735)
• United States
12 Oct 07
Nope I definitely couldn't sleep in seperate beds or rooms. Although there are times when hubby falls asleep on the couch and I leave him there. Why bother him if he is so comfortable and sleeping good? He wakes up on his own in the middle of the night and comes to bed anyway so it does not matter. I do feel so much more comfortable sleeping with him next to me but when he falls asleep on the couch he just looks so peaceful and comfy so I leave him there.
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@stephanie78 (122)
• United States
13 Oct 07
The seperate rooms would get to me. I like knowing he is nearby.
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
12 Oct 07
I can't imagine sleeping in separate rooms. I could see separate beds when there are medical conditions like that involved.
My husband and I don't need separate beds, but we need a big bed. If the bed is small enough we are too close, and then he gets claustrophobic and I beat him up accidentally in my sleep. =P
I haven't actually slept next to my husband much over the last few years, because he works nights. On the couple of nights a week that he's off, he sometimes sleeps with me, but other times doesn't because he doesn't want to get off his schedule. So actually it's something I miss a lot.
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@crazed_moma (1054)
• United States
12 Oct 07
I read in the newspaper recently that houses are being designed with seperate sleeping areas for each spouse. I can see it if one works days and one works graves or something like that but it seems like a waste of space to me. :) Give me more closet space and a better bathroom.
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@BayleighGray (4334)
• United States
12 Oct 07
Its funny that I spent so many years sleeping along and became very acustom to it, and starting to sleep with my husband took a lot to get used to and would at times get out of bed and sleep on the couch or something.
Now, NO WAY! lol I cant stand it, and he tells me he doesnt like it either. He travels a lot so hes not always here and we do have to sleep apart, and neither of us sleep well. There is just something about how is body feels next to mine in bed at night that is so comforting. I feel safe and secure when hes lying next to me, or just with me in general.
Bay Lay Gray xx
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