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.
