How does it feel to sleep apart from the other half?

Earlier this month, reality TV star Helen Flanagan announced that she and her fiancé, football player Scott Sinclair, hadn’t shared a bed in “seven years.”

Instead, a 31-year-old former Coronation Street star shares a bed with three children. Matilda (6 people), Delilah (3 people), Charlie (1 person).

However, Helen was worried that she wouldn’t be able to hug her partner at night, so she wrote on Instagram:

But what is reality? Does another sleep routine lead to a harmonious love and family life if you give up your sex life?

Here, the two women find out why they sleep in a separate bed from the other half and how this affects their relationship.

It started as a temporary event, but three years later we are still sleeping apart.

Nicole, 40, is a child sleep coach in Manchester.

My husband and I started sleeping in another room in 2019 as a temporary measure. Three years later, we are back in another bed. But he’s not really in bed like that: this is the mattress on the floor in his office.

I had an older daughter more than 6 years ago, but she did not sleep. We’ve had a truly traumatic start in her life. It was not the birth we planned, it was a medical and nutritional problem. Nothing went according to plan, except that we had a beautiful baby girl.

The sleep deprivation we experienced for the first few months brought us a lot of additional trauma and we couldn’t handle it, so we had to seek marriage counseling. We’ve gotten to the point where we seem to hate each other, it was hard to be in the same room.

About five months after the birth, I put my daughter to sleep in my room. I hope she helps you sleep. I didn’t know anything more than that. She sometimes slept there in a spare bed, but my husband and I still shared our bed. However, sleep became difficult for the next two years.

When my daughter was 3 years old, I found out that she was pregnant again. At the time, my husband was suffering from PTSD due to the lack of sleep we experienced for the first time. Things were really bad.

He was so worried that he couldn’t sleep every time he woke up at night. When I was pregnant, I woke up a lot at night and I was short, and then I woke her up. He slept about 2-3 hours. So, three months into my pregnancy, she decided to go to another room for a while.

We had a mattress that we wanted to put on our beard and, as a temporary measure, we put it upstairs on the floor of his office.

He has been there ever since. My second daughter is 2 years and 2 months, and it’s been almost 3 years.

When my daughter arrives, it makes sense that she continues like us, that’s because she was breastfeeding so she could sleep with her and eat at night, it meant.

Earlier this year we moved her to the crib in my sister’s room. But we are still sleeping separately and will probably last until both of our girls sleep through the night.

The whole thing was very difficult. I love my husband a little and I love him, but at home I sometimes feel like a stranger. I run my own business. She is in his office and sleeps there too. We are both busy and sometimes we think that the ship will pass at night.

But we’re just parents trying to cope, and we live in hopes of getting back to something normal.

Sleeping apart is like two evils: neither situation is good, but we must be able to sleep, otherwise we cannot work.

Of course, being in another room doesn’t help our sex life, but we are still very tired.

We will be a couple of 10 years in June. I hope my husband will come back to bed with me and celebrate by putting both girls to sleep soundly.

Sleep deprivation affects all aspects of life, including physical, mental, relationships, and the workplace. -And that’s the most important.

It was our experience that inspired us to start our own business, Baby 2 Sleep. This includes helping parents keep their children in a better place and letting them know it’s best to seek help when they’re having a hard time.

It improved our relationship, especially when it comes to intimacy.

So, Verma, 41, is a podcast host, writer and trauma trainer from Coventry.

I had my little boy in 2018. I am breastfeeding and she woke up several times at night so it makes sense to be with her.

My partner got up at work at 5am so I slept in another room. It started out as a short-term solution, but frankly I love it and I think it was good for both us and our relationship.

I was tired for the first few months and wanted to make the most of my sleep. But my partner snores a lot. It is so loud that it not only wakes you up at night, but wakes you up. Sometimes it is so noisy that I am scared at night.

We decided that he would sleep in another room for a while and never look back.

At first I felt weird, I felt like I was pushing him, and he felt a bit oppressed like I was choosing my son over him. But we were asleep, so we had to do what was best for me and my little one. And my partner quickly got used to crying and not waking up, and I got used to snoring without waking up.

Currently, we have a completely separate bedroom. People think this can have a negative impact on our relationships, but I think it’s a positive change, especially when it comes to intimacy. I like to think that distance and space strengthen my heart.

I quit when I shared a room and we slept together every night. I want to spend a special time together.

It has no negative impact on our sexual life, it is always exciting when we have intimate moments. It is not connected to the thighs, so I am more grateful when I go out on a date night or at night.

Maybe more couples should try this to add some excitement to their lives.

My son is 4 years old and my daughter was born in August. When she is born, the son can go to a spare room with her father, sleep, nurse, and take care of her new baby. That makes sense to us.

Ultimately, it’s probably best to sleep together again when the kids get older. We are moving house soon, and when we have more space, our little one will probably sleep in his own room, and at some point we will sleep together again..

But you may not know who knows. Now I am used to having my own space. And my partner’s snoring problem has not been solved yet…

Who made the “rule” that couples must sleep in the same bed? Everyone is different, everyone is different and it works for us, that’s why we need to copy the model. We have the right to choose how we want to sleep.

This is not strange or wrong. I think more people should try it!