Source: Bossip.com

In the past studies have found that women tended to get less sleep when they were sharing their bed with a [male] partner but a new series of sleep studies are challenging that finding. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that sleeping together as a couple provides an increased sense of security and can actually reduce levels of cortisol, a stress hormone.

The trouble is you and your partner have to work with one another’s sleep schedule. If you’re a morning person and like to get to bed early, you may run into a bit of a problem if you’re in a relationship with a night owl. The difference in sleep schedules and subsequent problems like being waken up when your partner comes to bed can cause tension in the relationship.

But marriage and family counseling therapists have some solutions. Check them out here.

Have differing sleep schedules ever negatively affected your relationship?

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Changes in your sleep patterns, aches and pains, unexplainable bleeding or discharge may be signs that something is wrong. Follow your body’s warning signals. It is better to go to the doctor and find out that nothing is wrong than to wait and later find out that your condition could have been treated or cured had it been detected earlier.