- 227 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A fascinating look at the social experience of sharing a bed with another person.
Millions of adults sleep with another adult, but what does it mean to share a bed with someone else, and how does it affect a couple's relationship? What happens when one partner snores? Steals the sheets? Prefers to sleep in the nude? To address these and other questions, Paul C. Rosenblatt asked couples to describe the struggles, challenges, and achievements of their bed-sharing experiences. Two in a Bed includes interviews with more than forty bed-sharing couples as they candidly discuss winding down and waking up, cold feet and tucked sheets, who sleeps near the door and who gets pushed to the edge, snoring, spooning, sleep talking, sleep walking, and the myriad other behaviors we negotiate in falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking up each morning beside a partner. In addition to exploring the routines and realities of sharing a bed with another person, these interviews reveal important information about sleep, relationships, and American society. Stressing the intricacy and importance of a previously unremarked activity, Rosenblatt's Two in a Bed shows that sleep should no longer be viewed solely as an individual phenomenon.
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Table of contents
- Two in a Bed
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Forming the Couple System:Learning to Share a Bed
- 3. The Bed
- 4. Going to Bed
- 5. Activities in the Transition from Awake to Asleep
- 6. Temperature Preferences
- 7. Talking and Touching
- 8. Anger and the Couple Bed
- 9. Ilness and Injury
- 10. How Can You Sleep So Soundly When I’m So Wide Awake?
- 11. Outside Intrusions into Couple Sleep
- 12. Bathroom Trips, Tossing andTurning, Resless Legs, Sleep Talking,Grinding Teeth, and Nightmares
- 13. Snoring and Sleep Apnea
- 14. Safety, Intimacy, and Why Couples Sleep Together
- 15. Waking Up in the Morning
- 16. Weekends
- 17. Everyday Life and the Couple System
- APPENDIX
- REFERENCES
- NAME INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX