Usually we’ll cuddle a bit before sleeping; ‘cuddling’ includes spooning. Then we separate to sleep. I sleep on my back and he sleeps on his stomach, so spooning isn’t a comfy sleeping position for either of us.
It’s part of our “going to sleep” ritual. We’ll spoon together for a while as the cats calm down. Then, “You’re hot and you’re touching me,” as we turn to our predestined sides of the be.
Oh, and with regard to spooning: I like it. I’m usually cold, so I like cuddling up to a warm back, or to have a warm back. 
A long time ago, I had a boyfriend who liked me to spoon him, but refused to do it back. Somehow it became a powerthing. That put me off spooning for quite a while.
It must be great to be one of the Furnace People. A topic that merits a thread of its own. I’d kill for a metabolism that would allow me to have all the calories I eat go to warm me, instead of going to my hips. Eat what I like, be thin and wear skimpy clothing while still being warm: it sounds wonderful.
The SO is like that. Actually, all the men in my life have been like that. I call them “Portable Heaters That Snore.”
I have a very low tolerance for it - a little is fine, but when I want to sleep, I want to sleep, dammit!
In the morning, sometimes he wants me to cuddle him, which is fine, and I sometimes and go back to sleep. But when he wants to cuddle me and I wanna sleep, get off of me!!
Instead of putting it under her pillow, I’ll usually use it as her pillow. I’ve got pretty big arms, so it’s usually pretty comfortable for both of us.
Mmmm, sporking. 
It’s part of our ritual, she behind me to start the night. We’ll do it for say 5 minutes, then it’s time to get in a better sleeping position. Spooning ok, forking better, knifing never.
Spooning is nice when we’re awake and cuddling in bed, but bad for sleeping, for both of us.
I get too hot if there is someone on me all night. Plus, my husband sleeps like he wants to kill me (arms and legs flying everywhere), so spooning might actually be dangerous to my health unless we’re both awake.
Every night, all night, and when one of us moves during the night, the other readjusts to continue spooning, usually without waking. We both have trouble falling and staying asleep if we aren’t.
He is one of the furnace people, and I hate to be hot, so I prefer the big spoon position, but don’t mind being the little spoon – I’ve gotten very good at kicking the blankets off of me while keeping him covered.
When I’m the little spoon, his arm is straight out under my pillow, when I’m the big spoon, my arm is bent up under my own head, under my pillow.
Where did you get that idea? Warm != skinny. Take it from this plus-size furnace.
I really, really, really hate the term “spooning.” I have a viciously strong “creeped out” reaction to it like the ladies in that “moist” thread.
I have never done it yet, and currently single, so unfortunately I cant offer an opinion. Any volunteers to remedy the situation?
MrSin and I are major spooners: big, little and spork 
. He used to be the furnace guy who kept me warm at night. Now that old age is creeping up on us he’s the one who is cold and I’ve become his “Toaster Girl.” Life is good 
I guess you’d consider us weird. We kind of start with our feet touching facing each other. The I think we both toss and turn a bit before winding up in the spoon. She’s a heater so she’s usually on the ouside.
This has always been my complaint. There is really no comfortable way to spoon for me. At some point, circulation to an arm will be cut off. I’ve imposed a 10-minute limit on my wife. It’s easy for her, but I have to spend the next 15 minutes fighting off the pins and needles.
Not all night, but I like it for a few minutes before sleep (although it often leads to more active, um, activities) and I really love it in the mornings although it makes me stay in bed longer than I should. We weren’t always like this which makes it even nicer.
My wife’s internal thermostat runs much hotter than mine, and most nights she’s in bed long before me (I’m more of a night owl, working at my desk, reading email, checkin’ out the Dope, etc., until the wee hours). So on a cold night, when I finally go to bed, I’ll often snuggle up behind her to warm up. I’m ten inches taller than her, so we fit together very nicely indeed. I rarely fall asleep that way, though - usually I’ll get nice and toasty, give her a kiss and a whispered “Good night,” then shift back to my side of the bed to drop off to sleep. Neither of us sleep soundly enough if we’re actually entangled with one another; we save that for our waking hours.
I like it for awhile, but I have to be the one on the outside. The other way makes me uncomfortable. We haven’t done it much lately, though, because we have a very pushy cat who likes to cuddle up to me and sometimes to the spouse, and he’ll come in and literally shove us apart so he can stuff his little face in there and “assume the position.”
We both think it’s cute so we let him do it. So I spoon with one human and then one cat.
“Toaster Girl” – what a great nickname!
Autolycus, didn’t you post pictures in one of the photo threads? You shouldn’t have any trouble finding someone to help you form an opinion.
Thanks for sharing stories, everyone.
It depends on the position and the partner.
There are four different positions (i.e. I could be on the right side or the left side, and the big spoon or the little spoon). I like one of them - on my left side, little spoon. I lurrrve it. It’s one of my most favourite things to do. I can (and probably will) fall asleep that way. The only problem is when my hair attacks his face.
Right side, little spoon, I like but can’t sleep.
Big spoon doesn’t work for me at all.
Sometimes the dog will come up to make it a three-way spoon, which is very cute until he starts rolling around and chewing on us. Due to anatomical limitations, he is always the little spoon.
With my previous partner, every single spoon situation led to sporking. It wasn’t cuddling, it was foreplay. Sometimes I just like to cuddle.