Hypothetically if various reasons of economy and et. al demanded it, would it be acceptable for post-pubescent children to share a bed with their parents?
To turn it around, why would it be unacceptable?
A lot of families on vacation may have parents sleeping in the same bed as their children if there are limited beds in a hotel room or other such things and money is tight. No one would really think twice of it.
Acceptable.
Context is everything. Close families think nothing of all sleeping in a pile.
Absolutely acceptable. Why on earth wouldn’t it be?
Same sex, definitely okay. Opposite sex, especially a teenage boy and his mom, screams all kinds of wrong. I went on vacation with my husband, his mom and his 14 year old brother. Mom and brother shared a bed. It just seemed really weird to me.
What if he was gay? Would it be cool then?
Sure, if mom was a lesbian.
Sure, unless they’re the type to eat cookies in bed.
It definitely depends on the people. I’d rather sleep on the floor than share a bed with my Mom.
Yes, that would be different. My issues with it may stem from the fact that I feel like their relationship is inappropriate in other areas as well. She has a tendency to treat him as a surrogate husband on an emotional level as well. It is just a gut reaction of wrong to me.
actually my step-grandfather who happened to be an surgeon had a son who slept with his parents all the way to his adult years .after his mother passed away and my grandma enter to the picture, he had to sleep in his own room. the reason for his weird behavior because he is mentally and intelligently challenged but no harm was done. anyway he is living in a community where he can be looked after and yet still have his independent to go anywhere he feel like it. hes asweet guy and remembers me every time we run into each other.
How else can they make sweet sweet love?
When I (their mother) travel with my teenaged sons we often get a single hotel room to save money. We have often shared a bed.
Why would that be weird?
Any time we had a large number of guests in the house, I would get shuffled off to sleep in my mom’s room with her. It’s not like we were sharing a twin bed, and there’s nothing sexual about sharing a bed with one’s child in situations like this. I’m calling prudishness on the part of those who object to this situation unless there’s a record of inappropriate sexual behavior between the parent and child.
I’ve shared a bed with my mother on a couple of occasions. When we were staying with a friend of the family on vacation, and the only bed spare was a double (my brother stayed in the friend’s son’s room). Also when mum drove me to Sydney, we stayed overnight in a hotel and the room only had a double bed, and no foldout.
If there’s an ongoing instance of the parent and offspring sleeping together exclusively, I’d raise a brow, but ultimately it’s not my business.
Seriously, who would think anything of it? I’ve shared a bed with my mom plenty of times. She snores like a damned house on fire.
There’s nothing wrong with it unless the parent actually does something wrong.
Absolutely no big deal at all. But, then again, I can see situations where two heterosexual opposite sex friends can share a bed without it being sexual. Many people can’t. Anyone who equates sleeping together with sex might find it icky.
I’ve slept in a bed with just about all of my friends at one time or another; sometimes with several of us on one bed at a time, with nothing going on, and no one thinking twice about it.
Same with my family in the past - if you’ve got no other space, then you go find a somewhat available soft flat surface. If two or three siblings/cousins end up on a couch and mom, dad, and a few other sibs/cousins end up on the bed - what’s the big deal? You’re sleeping.
Now I will say I won’t sleep with one of my brothers, but that’s because he kicks like mad, and it ends up hurting less to sleep on the floor in that case.