By Paul C. Rosenblatt
A desirable examine the social event of sharing a mattress with another individual.
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I assume that each relationship starts with both partners as beginners at accommodating to each other, even if they have had experience in previous relationships. This is not to say that people necessarily achieve complete accommodation and tolerance. Some couples quoted in this chapter were still grumbling about issues concerning the bed years after they started sleeping together. Arguably, the grumbling represents a degree of accommodation and tolerance; still, it seems that some couples may struggle for all their time together with issues that one or both of them cannot bend about.
For more on this matter, see the discussion in the next chapter on bedtime security checks and in Chapter 14 on safety. I Want to Be Closer to the Bathroom In some couples one of the partners wanted to be closer to the bathroom so that nighttime trips to the bathroom would be easier. In heterosexual couples where closeness to the bathroom was a factor, it was more often the woman who slept closer to the bathroom. ) ME: So who liked to be closer? You would like to be? When we stay at motels or hotels I always sleep on the bathroom side.
I can’t sleep when he’s dancing. ME: How did you come to decide to have a king size bed? JIM: . . We had a queen size bed before and it wasn’t big enough. . King size was . . the way to go. As Amy and Jim said, moving to a bigger bed can be a way to deal with problems of physical movement or sprawling. It also can be a way to deal with an increase in physical size. Obesity peaks in the 45–64 age group, and that is when people in the United States are often considerably heavier than they were when in their twenties (National Center for Health Statistics, 2005).