# Do you sleep with your wife/husband?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-your-wife-husband/313345>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 20, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-your-wife-husband/313345 "2005-07-20T20:19:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-your-wife-husband/313345/61 "2005-07-22T01:04:51Z")

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sunflower and i have shared the same bed for 32 years

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-your-wife-husband/313345/62 "2005-07-22T12:27:51Z")

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For those with trouble with the flickering TV, some TVs have a button or control on them where you can actually turn the picture to nothing.

We sleep in the same bed. Like many in this thread, we don’t have the same schedule, though. Generally, I’ll head toward bed at 11 or 11:30. He usually comes up with me and we’ll read for a while. I fall asleep. He goes back downstairs. I sleep like the dead, so no issues with being woken up when he comes to bed.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-your-wife-husband/313345/63 "2005-07-22T17:16:29Z")

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Our schedules differ during the year, so it varies. During the school year, I tend to hit the sack about an hour before the wife., and get up way before she does. She will wake up enough to kiss me goodbye in the morning, then goes back to sleep. In the summer, it reverses. In any case, it’s the same bed. We both snore, but we have gotten used to getting the other to roll over. Same covers, much stealing.

Best story I’ve heard about how “seperate bed” couples handle the “activities” option.

Husband: “Easily handled…I just wear a hat to bed. Then I throw it onto the wife’s bed. Sometimes she _throws_ it back…sometimes she _brings_ it back!” 😃

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**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-your-wife-husband/313345/64 "2005-07-22T20:11:58Z")

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We always sleep together. When he worked night shift we didn’t but that was a long time ago. Now, not only are we together but some part of us must be touching before I can fall asleep. Weird but true.

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-sleep-with-your-wife-husband/313345/65 "2005-07-22T20:17:32Z")

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Together.

It works because I can’t sleep under covers and she’s a cocooner.

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