Do you sleep with your wife/husband?

**Dangerosa **and I sleep together. :slight_smile: Until a recent schedule change for me, I tended to stay up later and would often go to bed later than she did. Now that I am working an earlier schedule, we’re pretty much on the same schedule for bedtime.

On those occasions when I get the bed to myself (if she’s out of town or up at the lake with the kids) I really like the extra space for the first night, then it feels lonely.

And here I thought my SO and I were the only ones (aside from my mom and her husband) who have separate covers! I like more blanket coverage than he does, so it works out well. And it does cut down drastically on cover-stealing.

We tend to go to bed at the same time (10:30-11:00) but on weekdays he gets up earlier than I do to get to work.

My husband and I sleep together. We have separate blankets, though, for the following reasons:

1.) I am the world’s biggest blanket hog, and, no matter how noble my intentions, it all goes out the window once I fall asleep.

2.) I like lots of blankets. He likes fewer blankets. This way, we each get the optimal level of blankets for our comfort.

The only problems that we are are due to the fact that I am very sensitive to noise when I fall asleep. So, at night, I wear earplugs, and we put the TV on low. Clears everything up, and, if he gets really loud–which is only when his allergies are acting up–I ask him to turn over.

Same thing in reverse. My husband works permanent night shifts, and I work days.

In the normal scheme of things we’d get 2 nights together per week to share the bed, but I only work 2 or 3 days a week so I frequently creep into the bedroom during my non-working days and catch a nap with him.

What can I say? It’s nice to be snuggled…even if he never remembers I was there when he wakes up. :smiley:

In the same bed, but at different times; my wife usually retires before or around 10PM; I don’t usually go up until 2AM (or later if I’m very busy); we both get up between 6 and 7 - I just don’t require as much sleep as she does. I always try to creep into bed without disturbing her and I can usually get upstairs, clean my teeth, get undressed, washed and find the bed by moonlight or in total darkness (with just the occasional stubbed toe)

Stritcly speaking I won’t have a husband for another nine days but I figured I could join in anyway.

We adapted, I was always a (relatively) early to bed, (relatively) early to rise kinda gal, he wasn’t.
When I was working I had to get up at 6.45, so went to bed bewteen 10 & 11pm, the man came with me and so it tended more towards 11 - 11.30. Sometimes he’d get up with me sometimes not. Now I’m not working but so we get a good hour more kip in the morning but still feel I want to be in bed at my ‘usual’ time’ whereas he’s happy to stay up later, past midnight. SInce, IMHO, the best place in the world to fall asleep is wrapped in Ponster 's arms I rarely sneek off ahead of him. (Besides I don’t sleep that well if I’m ‘waiting’ to be disturbed, not his fault I just rouse easily.)

Reading this has made me realise how lucky we are - a bit of music or not, a bit of light or not … we’re not that fussy. Luckily snoring isn’t usually a problem - unless a few too many Guiness have been comnsumed :stuck_out_tongue:

Pepper Mill and I sleep in the same bed. It just seems wrong to sleep in separate beds.

This is harder on Pepper Mill than on me, since I snore. She has, however, learned to push me onto my side. Or if that doesn’t work, with a vigorous punch.

I have the bestest snugglebunny in the world.
He’s perfect. He never hogs the covers, he’s warm without being sweaty, and he spoons without smothering. He doesn’t snore, and doesn’t seem to mind the fact that I do.
One of the simple joys of my life has been the feeling of him stirring in the night, snuggling up closer to me and kissing the back of my neck. Before we moved in together, I was a night owl, but he made it worth going to bed at ten o’clock.

Unfortunately NOW we have a little nocturnal Geekbaby so our hours are completely different. It’s eight a.m now. He just left for work and Bella is finally starting to nod off.

With my ex-husband, we slept in separate rooms. He snored loud enough to shake the window panes.

Together, sometimes seperate blankets - especially in winter. She loves a 6 inch thick goose-down comforter that I hate…I literally sweat underneath it while she is barely warm enough. I am actually thinking about buying a one-piece pajama suit and just sleeping in that with no blanket at all.

-Tcat

Well so much for the Hollywood sterotype of husband/wife going to bed, reading a magazine, kissing each other good night, and rolling over to sleep!

Nice to see im not alone. I know some people think it strange not to go to bed at the same time, or even sleep in the same bed. But really…its just sleep. Not like she/he knows your next to them anyway. So why should it matter?

Generally, we sleep together.

Most nights, we get in bed at the same time and read for a while with the lights on. When I turn my light off, he has a special reading light that doesn’t keep me up, which we swear has saved our marriage.

Maybe once every two weeks or so, one of us will have trouble sleeping or be snoring or something, and the other will go to the guest bed or the couch.

When Jakeline and I met, we were on complete opposite ends of the spectrum: she was a night owl and often stayed up past midnight, and I, being an easily-bored bachelor, would fall asleep around 9 or 9:30.

Since we’ve met and lived together (we first started dating almost 9 years ago), we’ve slowly migrated towards each others’ sleep schedules. Well, at night, anyway. We tend to go to sleep between 10:30 and 11:30 most nights. Some nights, we’ll turn off the TV and conk out together, but there are probably an equal number of times when one of us will roll over and the other will stay up, in bed, watching TV or reading. I don’t think, though, that there’s generally more than an hour’s difference in the time we actually fall asleep.

We definitely sleep in the same bed, although I don’t know how she’s put up with me all these years. Apparently, I do snore loudly. In addition to that, up until maybe 3 months ago (and keep in mind, we’ve shared a bedroom/bed for almost 9 years), I slept with the TV on. It’s a nasty habit I picked up after the '94 Northridge Quake out here. Anyway, the harsh light and flickering bothered her and gave her headaches, but she really didn’t have anywhere to go to avoid it.

I finally found a work-around for me that involves leaving a light on off in the distant dining room, so we’re both sleeping a little better these days.

Of course, I’m still up and ready to be out and about by 7:30am on the weekends, and I can’t realistically sleep past 9:30am, no matter how little sleep I’ve had the night before. And she still thinks I’m crazy for being a morning person. :wink:

We go to bed at the same time, always. Sometimes if he wants to watch tv later, I fall asleep on the couch and he wakes me up when it’s time to go to the bedroom.

Hubby and I almost always go to bed at the same time - except for weekends, when he might stay up later than me. That’s rare. We always sleep together, unless one of us is out of town. We’ve slept together all but, say, 10 nights since I moved into his apartment in March of 2000.

TheElf and I almost always go to bed at the same time… about 10:00 during the week (we watch The Daily Show while in bed) and 11:00 or so on the weekends on average. We really like to cuddle. If one or the other of us can’t sleep, we will cuddle for a while, then the non-sleepy one will get back up and go downstairs to watch tv, read, or whatever. Unless I am really tired, I cannot fall asleep with either the light or the tv on. Plus we have a waterbed, so it’s not very comfortable for sitting up and reading in. Which is a shame, because I love to read in bed and TheElf has no problem sleeping with the light or the tv on. We get up at the same time during the week. On the weekends one or the other of us will get up first and make the coffee while the other sleeps in for a while. No pattern to it, just whoever is done sleeping will get up first.

We’re almost always in bed within half an hour of each other, sometimes he’s up later on the weekends playing WoW, if we don’t go out.

Usually we’ll both stay awake for half an hour or so reading in bed before we turn out the lights.

I forgot to mention; a little while back, We had an impromptu power loss at about 10:30PM - after my wife had retired for the night - I reported it to the power company and they said power would be restored in a couple of hours; having nothing much to do without electricity, I decided to take an early night - I crept upstairs and went to bed as usual, but my wife was so surprised at my arrival that she reached over and felt my head all over (has the light been on for someone to see it, I think it would have been exactly like the sort of ‘what the hell is this thing?’ type of hand-groping seen on Bugs Bunny cartoons).

My SO and I have only been living together for a year, and the whole “sleeping in the same bed thing” is sometimes an issue.

Similar situation to other posters - I’m a night owl, SO has to be up before 7am for work, whereas I work from home and can’t face anything before 8.30am.

My SO is a bit worried that “something’s wrong” as we can’t sleep together - we both end up over-tired and crotchety.

Nice to know other couples aren’t tied to the same bed!

A. and I sleep in the same bed (king size… there just isn’t another way, I don’t know how we survived sleeping on the full.

We tend to go to bed around the same time, though he plays video games to relax before bed and I read to relax, so I go to bed around midnight or 12:30, he comes in around 1 or 1:30. Then I turn off the light and I fall asleep within 3 minutes or so. He takes another hour or two, poor guy.

In the morning, we usually lay in bed, talk and pet the animals for a half hour or so before I get up for work. On days off, we lay there for 3 hours or more. This is the dog’s favorite time of day.

Unfortunately, due to Ivylad’s medical issues, we rarely sleep on the same schedule.

I have a pretty set routine, in bed by 10pm with about another 30 minutes of reading before lights out. Ivylad has usually tried to catch a nap during the day because he rarely sleeps more than an hour at a time. So on those rare occasions that we go to bed together, he’s usually up a couple of hours later, then he comes back to bed about an hour before I get up.

He’s a spooner though, sometimes so much I have to nudge him back on his side because he’s squishing me.

I’d say it’s about once every six months that he goes to bed and sleeps all night. You have no idea how wonderful a good night’s sleep is until you can’t have one. :frowning: