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lexiarein

I go sleep in the spare room all the time. We have two options 1. Queen sized extra firm mattress or 2. Full sized pillow-top with pillow-top mattress pad. The full is from when I was single and it's sooo comfy but not big enough for the two of us. I'm a super light sleeper, and DH snores sometimes, so if he's snoring I go sleep in the spare bedroom in my more comfortable bed. I don't like to be laid on or snuggled with when I'm trying to sleep. Before we're actually trying to sleep we'll cuddle, but once the bedside lamp goes off, DH has to move over to his own side. He doesn't mind if I move, and I like it better over there cause I can sleep comfortably.
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tinydancer842

IMO it's really important to sleep together -- we have been since college -- we shared a single bed for a while...haha. I find it hard to sleep when he is not around. I love waking up everyday & seeing him. Can you invest in a new bed & earplugs?

jessNlane52804

To each her own, but I will say that my parents have had huge problems over this. My dad snores and my mom is a light sleeper and hates it.  My dad has tried nasal strips and a special brookstone pillow for snoring which helped. DH and I love the intimacy of sleeping together, even if we have to compromise on a sleep environment.

mrs chicken

Where's the option for "I fell asleep on the couch again and DH is too nice to wake me up so he just gets me a blanket?"

alexilyse

The only time we wouldn't sleep in the same bed is if one of us is sick. I am typically more comfortable on the couch if I am sick.

We are about to get a new bed next weekend though! 

e_jakiela

I agree with tinydancer, even if we have a fight, we make up and go to bed together.  I need snuggling before falling asleep and sometimes, when I go early, DH comes to bed, snuggles me to sleep and goes to watch more TV. The only times we sleep apart is if he comes back from his dart game too late, and falls asleep on the couch with the tv on. Or when our puppy gets sick and his sick sounds keep me up.  DH works from home, and I have to wake up early every day to get to work, so DH sacrifices his sleep for me.  All other times we sleep together:)

lwogsland

We sleep together..if snoring is bad, I do have ear plugs.

 

Occasionally get a sore back from our bed being too soft..so I will sleep in other room, but DH always volunteers to join me

missmis99

Is there a special snowflake for this one?  We sleep apart a couple nights a week because I live away a couple nights a week.  I work in another town where I rent a small place so on those nights I stay there.  So, we sleep apart several nights during the week.  So, during the nights when we are under the same roof, we always are in bed together, but often we don't go to bed at the same time.  I tend to be in bed by 10, he often comes to bed around 2 or 3. 

erincassidy06

I vote special snowflake as well. DH works night shift 7 days a week and then has 7 day off.  Often times our sleeping schedule is not the same. So when he is on shift we dont sleep together cause when I'm waking up he is going to bed. But otherwise if we are both sleeping at night then yes we sleep together.

 

louieblue

Actually, it's not that I loooove sleeping in the same bed as DH, it's the only bed we've got.  It's a full and really, it's too small.  I can't believe that DH and I shared a twin for 2 years in college.  Crazy. 

Even if one of us is sick, we sleep together.  We don't really snuggle though.  I'm definitely one of those that has to have her space when she sleeps.  For real.  

 

Kathiiy

alexilyse:

The only time we wouldn't sleep in the same bed is if one of us is sick. I am typically more comfortable on the couch if I am sick.

 

Same here.

MollySm

We always sleep together, but we're not snugglers - when it's sleep time we go to our own side of the bed.  

We also go to bed at the same time.  H starts work at 4 am, so we go to bed early and get up early together.  I used to go to bed later, and get up later, but it just didn't work for us.  It was hard to do dinner together because we weren't on the same schedule, and he never got to bed on time because he wanted to stay up with me.  

 This schedule is annoying, but it gives me a lot of time in the morning to get stuff done, and it's better than being on different schedules. I can't wait until he finishes school and gets a job with a normal schedule! 

srveatch

H and I invested in a King... we always sleep together but aren't big snugglers either.  If I go to bed before H, he does come up and tuck me in

beach11

DH works 3rd shift on a 5-3 schedule (works 5 nights has 3 off) so we don't get to sleep with each other as much as we would like to.  Every so often DH sleeps on the couch when me & the dog hog the bed. 

Cray.anita

DH used to sleep on the couch about a year before the wedding however he had broken his back and was just much more comfortable out there.  He didn't work for almost 4 months so we were on completely different schedules also.  We also had an old hand me down queen bed and it just wasn't that comfortable.  Last December we invested in a pretty pricey but totally worth it ultra plush king size bed.  We haven't spent a night apart since!

aweilba

DH and I sleep together every night, and we love it!  I think part of this stems from dating for over 5 years and never getting to sleep in the same bed together unless we went to visit friends.  Our parents weren't fans of us sleeping in the same bed until married, so we never really got to, and that was one of the things we were most excited for when we got married.  I love snuggling up next to him before I fall asleep and giving him a kiss good morning when we wake up.  Luckily for us, we're both pretty heavy sleepers and do not really snore (unless we're sick), so we make good sleeping partners!

trinalo

In the years we've been together, out sleep schedules have varied quite a bit. I've always worked either 8-4 or 9-5, so my sleep times have been based on that. DH has been unemployed, or worked noon-8, or 3-11, and now he works 8-4:30. So now we got to bed together every night and wake up at the same time. But he used to stay up until 3 or 4 in the morning. Sometimes he would even still be awake when I got up. I can sleep alone, but I don't like it much most of the time.

Our bed is a queen. It's a hand-me-down bed but we got a memory foam mattress pad so it's super comfy. Neither of us are cuddly sleepers (not on purpose anyway. We have fallen asleep cuddling but we're either super tired or drunk). The dog likes to sleep with us and she's kind of a bed hog, but if she crawls into bed after we're asleep I don't even notice.

And this is long enough. To summarize: DH and I prefer sleeping together.