My family and I were chatting about sleeping arrangements while I was home this past week. Don't ask me how we get on these topics, but somehow we ended up there.
It came out in conversation that Erik and I don't have "sides of the bed". We switch sides regularly and sleep wherever we climb into bed. We don't even have our own pillows but use whichever one is on the side we crawl into. I know that part is kind of gross, but it's true.
I never thought this was strange until last week. My family informed me that this was far from normal and that most couples have definite sides of the bed. I was told that the side only changes when you are not in your own bed and then it may be due to necessity (closer to the bathroom, further from the window).
Not for us. We share everything! Haha. We have never had sides of the bed. When we lived in my sister's house I more often slept on one side because our bed was pushed against a wall and I went to bed earlier so I slept by the wall. This way Erik didn't wake me up as much because he didn't have to climb over me to get into bed. When I wasn't in bed earlier though it didn't matter where we slept. And now that you can access our bed from both sides it doesn't matter again.
Tell me, do you always sleep on the same side of the bed??
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always. always. always. even when we moved to this house I kept the same side of my bed.I sleep on my left and kyles always on the other side of my back. I even moved the bed to the other side of teh room just so I could sleep on my side of the bed & at the same time stay far away from our drafty window :)
That is strange!! I always, always, always sleep on the left side no matter where we are, even in a tent:) And the thought of using Gary's pillow honestly grosses me out as he is a drooler.
Neither of us drools thankfully. But Erik sometimes sweats - especially when he is getting sick. The reason why pillows don't matter though is because he will steal mine in the middle of the night and cover his sweaty pillow with "mine". I usually end up sleeping with no pillow.
We always sleep on our own sides. I get the right, he gets the left. The only time I sleep on his side is when he is having a guys night out and just isn't home. I actually prefer the left as well but a certain someone won't budge ;)
We always sleep on the same sides. always. I sleep on the left, in our bed, at a hotel, tent, anywhere.
For our first few months we sleep with me on the left Mark on the right. Then I was having problems with my shoulder and we switched sides. And that is the way it has been since.
But when we are in tents or hotel rooms the sides do switch around a bit.
Oh and for me a clean pillow case is very important (I change them 2 times a week). If Mark rolls over and tries using my pillow, I say "hey stop rubbing your boy germs over my pillow!
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