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I love living with my man and sharing a bed with him, but on a grander scale, I don’t love sharing a bed with anyone. It’s kind of a catch 22, because I take so much comfort from him that now I can’t really sleep when he isn’t home. I keep waking up reaching over and hoping to find him there, and realizing he isn’t. I get my best sleep when he is next to me, and yet at the same time when I was single, I got my best sleep when I could sleep alone. Can you see how this would be frustrating? It gets worse. My partner is a bad sleeper too. We have both always been bad sleepers. We take forever to fall asleep, we will wake up at the tiniest sound or movement, and we both need to get up to go to the restroom a lot during the night. For this reason, a lot of our arguments are just about who disturbed whom during the night and why we are asleep deprived. Ultimately it is nobody’s fault. We are both just bad sleepers. If you share a bed with another bad sleeper, here are some tips to survive it.
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Get separate blankets.
It may not seem romantic, but if you have separate blankets, it makes a world of a difference. I personally wake up every time my partner adjusts if we share a blanket. Getting separate blankets fixed that.
