GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Are you tired of your significant other keep you up at night? Snoring? Stealing the covers? Hogging the bed?
It might be time for a sleep divorce.
It's becoming one of the trendiest ways to cohabitate because it can be a rough night's sleep sometimes when you've got another person in bed with you.
Mattress Charity, a sleep product review website, did a survey and found that 31 percent of Americans would like a sleep divorce. In Michigan, we're below the national average at 21 percent.
So what is a sleep divorce? It can be a variety of things from sleeping in separate rooms, to having twin beds in the room, or even separate covers or pillows.
There are some benefits to sleeping together. Research has found that the feeling of bedtime security leads to a decrease in the stress hormone cortisol and increase in the love hormone oxytocin.
Sleeping in the same bed also allows you to reconnect at the end of your day. That pillow talk allows you and your partner to discuss things that are on your mind.
But it may not be easy for you to share the news about your sleep divorce with friends and family, 41 percent of Americans say they would not want to admit the slept separately -- and men have a harder time than women admitting it.
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