It’s hard not to hate someone whose sleeping style keeps you awake night after night. Here’s how everyone can get some shuteye
What keeps you awake at night? Global catastrophes, work or family worries, the sense you haven’t fulfilled your potential? Or is it your significant other, transformed into a flailing, thrashing, snoring, 4am-Drag-Race-watching monster? You wouldn’t be alone. Our sleep needs are idiosyncratic and only a lucky few couples find themselves in agreement on the optimum conditions for a good night’s rest. When we aren’t sleep-compatible, pillow feathers can fly.
Dr Heather Gunn is a sleep psychologist based in Alabama who sees couples in her practice; she knows sleep disagreements can cause feelings of anger, rejection and frustration.
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