The Benefits Of Sleeping Alone

You might think sleeping in separate beds is the beginning of the end for a couple… Not so, says millennial Sophie Haslett

- Sophie Haslett

It began one Sunday night when I had a presentation at work the following day and my boyfriend wanted to set his alarm for the ungodly hour of 3am to watch live English Premier League Football. ‘Why don’t you sleep in the spare room, so you don’t wake me up?’ I asked sweetly, tentatively, in case he thought I was being cruel. But after finally moving into our own place, for the first time we had two bedrooms at our disposal. Why not make the most of it?

Confused, but unhurt, he did. Or does, I should say, ’cos these days, several nights a week one of us will turn in down the hall. ‘What?!’ you say. ‘You live together, you’re 27 years old and you sleep in separate beds? Isn’t that for couples in their seventies, partners with bad snoring problems or solely reserved for after an epic argument?’