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Becky Smith

I had a sleep divorce to improve my relationship - after 3 nights, our relationship was transformed

Woman asleep in bed with sunbeam coming through slats in the window, representing the positive sleep benefits of sleep divorce .

Are you losing sleep due to your partner's snoring, restless tossing and turning or a mismatched sleep schedule? If you're nodding along, welcome to the club! A sleep divorce rewrote my love story: separate beds, a shared future and the sweet sound of nighttime silence. 

That's not to say I wasn't apprehensive to tell my friends that my partner and I slept separately at first though. Sharing a bed with a partner is seen as a fundamental part of being in a relationship. I thought people might judge us or jump to the conclusion that we were no longer in love. But it was the opposite - we loved each other so much that we would do anything to ensure our relationship flourished. For us, that meant getting a good night’s sleep in separate rooms.

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