Sleeping Apart May Be Benefic to Health and Relationship

If you think that sharing a bed with your partner boosts your relationship, you may be wrong. It may actually be doing harm to your health and your sex life studies show. 

Dr. Neil Stanley, a sleep specialist says that a good night's rest is more important than getting close to your significant other. He said that the idea of sleeping together is a relatively new idea. Before the industrial revolution it was not uncommon for couples to sleep in separate bedrooms but as people moved into the cities and were cramped for space it became a necessity.

Recent research has shown that 20 % of British couple already sleep in separate beds and that as much as 40 % of couples in their 70's sleep separately reports the Mirror. A couple interviewed by the Mirror said of sleeping separately, "Sex isn’t a problem at all. We simply enjoy it in whoever’s bedroom we end up in before happily retreating to our own double beds to sleep." Simon Rutherford, 35 who also sleeps separately from his wife says, "A couple who sleep separately are seen as a failure, because people assume the intimacy between them has died. So it was great to hear scientists saying that a good sleep alone in your own bed is what keeps a marriage fresh," reported the Telegraph. As it turns out, a lot of couples are sleeping apart.

Why Some Longtime Couples Look Alike

             Among the raft of books, articles, jokes, rom­antic comedies, self-help guides and other writings discussing marriage, some familiar ideas often crop up. Few appear more often than the idea that many old couples look alike. You've probably seen it before - two elderly people walking hand in hand down the street or sitting at a café, resembling each other so strongly that they could be siblings.

• Forget about opposites attracting. We like people who look like us, because they tend to have personalities similar to our own. And, a new study suggests, the longer we are with someone, the more similarities in appearance grow.

• Researchers set out to investigate why couples often tend to resemble one another. They asked 11 male and 11 female participants to judge the age, attractiveness and personality traits of 160 real-life married couples. Photographs of husbands and wives were viewed separately, so the participants didn't know who was married to whom.

The test participants rated men and woman who were actual couples as looking alike and having similar personalities. Also, the longer the couples had been together, the greater the perceived similarities.
The researchers speculate that the sharing of experiences might affect how couples look.