Fall asleep crossed to your partner is a habit that helps to strengthen the couple relationship by decreasing stress levels: this is what is clear from a study published on Journal of Social and Personal Relationshipswho investigated the pre-marine habits of over a hundred heterosexual couples trying to understand if the position taken in bed before sliding in the arms of Morfeo in some way influenced the quality of sleep and on the relationship.
Fall asleep close. We already knew that physical contact improves our well -being in different ways (and in some cases it even acts as a natural analgesic), and a few years ago the social distancing imposed by the Covid pandemic made it clear to us. In their study, conducted on 143 couples of an average age of 40-43 years together on average for 13 years, the researchers wanted to investigate how physical contact before sleeping influenced the well-being of the couple and on the quality of night sleep. They found that the couples who fell asleep close – embrace in spoon, with your legs intertwined or facing each other – they felt less stressed and enjoyed a safer relationship.
While you sleep better distant? The study, on the other hand, did not detect any correlation between sleep quality and physical proximity, which instead – explain the authors – could even disturb sleep: Staying a long time could be uncomfortable, cause an increase in body temperature, or be a problem if one or both partners suffer from sleep disorders, for example.
According to experts, it would therefore be better to make a short pampering before sleeping, but then getting into your part of bed and positioning yourself comfortably: in doing so He would benefit from the proximity of his partner without getting to be “annoyed”.
