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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/15/2008 12:18:27 PM
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KatMack
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Seperate blankets. I swear that and a king size bed is the only reason DH and I still share a bed. We each have our own set of sheets and blankets because he likes to keep the room FREEZING while he sleeps. I bundle up with my comforter and vellux blanket and am perfectly happy. The seperate blankets also buffer against too much ocntact. Neither of us like to touch while sleeping.
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/15/2008 1:04:28 PM
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We have a cal king. I don't like to be touched, so I stay on my side of the bed. But when he leaves for work, I take up the whole bed. Some days he likes to cuddle, but he goes to bed way before I do, so he is asleep when I get there. So I don't have to worry too much about it.
We have spare bedrooms, since we don't have kids, so if he gets too hot in the room and wants to run the air, then he can go sleep in the other room.
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/15/2008 3:10:25 PM
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TorchHeart
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Mrs. Wifey> Do you have to special order those, or are there certain stores that carry them?
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/15/2008 3:18:21 PM
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Mrs.Wifey
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Babies R Us carries them in the store.
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/15/2008 3:40:58 PM
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MrsTracy72
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Oh, I have one better than the separate blanket thing. Last spring, walmart put all of their electric blankets on clearance. For 11.00, I got a king size blanket with two controls. So with that and our sleep number bed that has the dual sides, we are set to go. Although my DH said that I punched him really hard the other night. Gotta wonder what I was dreaming about. LOL
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/15/2008 7:49:47 PM
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oh my goodness!!!
my husband snores!!! like thunders right by my ear!
I try to push him over so he can stop but if by accident he wakes up, i'll be in trouble!
so i just wait until i get REAL tired, even thunders wont wake me up 
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/15/2008 7:52:18 PM
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PatricksPeaches
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I can not sleep in the same room as my hubby. He has sleep apnea and snores unbelievably loud. He stayed the night at the sleep center last night. He has to go back and be fitted for a breathing machine. His snoring is very, very loud. On time I slept with ear plugs, headphones with noise machine, the fan on, him on the floor, and I could still hear him. I am not joking!! He is that loud. Maybe after he gets his machine I will be able to stand it. lol
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/16/2008 5:25:42 PM
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PastorPatricia
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For all the snorers out there it might be a good idea to mention sleep apnea to your doctor. My husband is much happier since I got my CPAC machine. Loud snoring is one of the signs of sleep apnea.
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/16/2008 5:31:00 PM
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I found it very hard to sleep with my husband for 11 years. A lot of that was due to insensitivity on his part. Part of it was snoring. He generally wouldn't move or stop snoring with nudging.
I won't go into what would happen if he did wake up or the other issues
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/16/2008 11:59:24 PM
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Annie64
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I thought for years that my dh and I had hit upon a strange solution in that we don't share blankets! I'm glad to know we're in good company! 
It took us a while to get used to sleeping together. I wanted to cuddle and he didn't. But now, neither of us want a lot of contact. I wanted a ton of blankets, and he wanted one. So now he has his own blanket. And a queen size bed is really a great, great help! For a while, we got so we couldn't sleep apart, but now I work third shift and we're on different sleep schedules for a good portion of the week. We sleep okay whether we're together or not. But one strange thing: I can't, unless I'm very, very tired, go to bed before my husband. I can sleep fine if he's out of town or if I'm sleeping during the day and he's not there. But if I know he's coming at some point to get in the bed, even though I know he will do his best not to disturb me, a lot of times I can't sleep. I lay awake waiting for him.
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/17/2008 4:13:40 AM
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I would hate it if my wife were touchy. I'm a snuggly/cuddly type of person, and I imagine that won't change. If she had problems with that, then we would probably have problems.
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/22/2008 1:33:30 AM
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biblecat
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Well, my dh is a lloooouuuuuuudd snorer(sp)?? hahaha, anyway, I've tried the ear plugs, waiting till I was BEYOND tired to climb into bed, going to bed before him - nope! We even got a bigger bed (full to queen) - nope. I've also tried the nudging, kicking, poking, asking to roll over, all that. Finally about 6 months ago, I just started going to bed with my ishuffle - wwhhhaaalah! It solved the problem and I love music!
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/22/2008 4:23:41 PM
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LOL we purchased our bed about 2 weeks before our wedding (he still had his own apartment). There wasn't a question when we went to the store -- he declared it was king-sized or nothing.
Since then I've learned he's a very spread-out sleeper, legs can't touch each other and arms can't touch his body. Me, I sleep curled up in a ball so I complained about the price difference between king and queen a little while we were still looking. Now, I couldn't be happier. It just barely fits in our room tho, no headboard or side tables for us!
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/23/2008 8:44:29 PM
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This has been a recent issue for us. I spent Wednesday night away from home and I will be away again tonight due to work. I told my husband on Wednesday that the dog would have to do for snuggling but my husband says the dog is no good at spooning. Maybe tonight they will figure something out.
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/23/2008 9:13:41 PM
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For all the snorers out there it might be a good idea to mention sleep apnea to your doctor. My husband is much happier since I got my CPAC machine. Loud snoring is one of the signs of sleep apnea.
I was hoping someone would bring that up...I have Sleep Apnea too my wife would tell me that I'd stop breathing during the night. I had a sleep study and the tech was back in the room within 15 minutes putting a cpap on me it was so bad. A cpap isn't the most romantic thing but I can honestly say I thank God for it. So for all those with loud snorers get them to see the doc about it.
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/23/2008 9:31:24 PM
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lightshineon
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No it is not easy. He snores, is always hot, I am cold natured. But it is hard to sleep without him also. Does that make sense??????????????
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/23/2008 10:31:29 PM
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But it is hard to sleep without him also. Does that make sense??????????????
Of course it does, it's part of the mystery of marriage.
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/25/2008 2:05:07 PM
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When we were first married, we used his full size bed since we couldn't afford to buy a new bed at the time. Well, it wasn't easy--my husband is a big guy and takes a lot of room--he likes to spread out, not to mention he would always creep to where I was sleeping--try waking up with 260 pounds of dead weight on top of you and it isn't as if i could yell at him---our house could be picked up in the middle of a tornado and he'd still be asleep. So i finally convinced him that a king size bed is something we can justify putting on a credit card since I wasn't going to put up with that. The king size bed really helped a lot--he had room to move and we switched sides, which also helped since he seems to gravitate toward the left side of the bed anyway. Luckily I don't have to deal with snoring. We do have issues with temperatures, but separate blanket really help.
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RE: Is it easy to sleep with your spouse? - 8/25/2008 2:56:29 PM
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bzirk
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My husband and I have slept in a full size (double) bed for 25 years. We are cuddlers unless it is too hot but even then we are touching somehow.
I thought we were the only ones. We had a king at one point, but it took up too much room, and we wanted a small sofa in the bedroom, so we went back to a full. People think we're nuts, but we've made it 25 years and got four kids, so it must be okay. LOL!
To answer the OP, when I was first married I had a really hard time sleeping all night in the same bed as my husband and he had a problem as well. What the problem was is that we had NEVER had to share a bed with anyone. One thing that really helped us is that we each got a body pillow, and this kept us from rolling into each other. We also learned to relax. Just a thought.
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