As part of ongoing research into the relationship habits of Britons, the UK’s largest discount website has conducted a study into the living habits of couples across the UK. Subsequently, 1,192 men and women who lived with their partner were polled.
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The study, conducted by www.MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, initially asked the respondents if they slept in the same bed as their partner every night, to which a tenth answered ‘no’. The remaining 91 per cent said ‘yes’.
In a bid to investigate the matter further, the 9 per cent of respondents who stated that they do not share a bed every night with their partner were asked why this was the case. According to the research, a quarter, 24 per cent didn’t share the same bed every night because they or their partner ‘snored’; whilst 6 per cent said it was because they ‘argued all the time’.
Furthermore, almost a fifth of the respondents who stated that they didn’t share a bed every night said it was because the ‘sex was better’ when not sharing the same bed together every night; whilst 23 per cent said that they simply ‘slept better’ when on their own.
The 9 per cent of respondents who cited that they did not sleep in the same bed as their partner every night were asked if they liked the fact that they slept apart, to which 63 per cent said ‘no’ as it was their partner’s decision for them to sleep separately.
According to the research, 74 per cent of the respondents who slept in a separate bed from their partner said that their friends did not know that they didn’t share a bed every night; a third of which, 35 per cent, said they hadn’t told their friends because they were ‘too embarrassed.’
The study found that 77 per cent of the total number of respondents said that they found it ‘strange’ that some couples do not share a bed every night. However in contrast, more than half stated that if they argued with their partner, they slept in separate beds.
Mark Pearson, Chairman of MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, said the following about the findings: “It it quite surprising to see that a tenth of the people we asked regularly sleep in separate beds even though they live together, although every relationship is different and works in a way that is best for them. If sleeping in separate beds helps improve the sex life between couples then why not!”
He continued: “It was interesting to see that such a large percentage of the respondents found it strange that couples sleep in separate beds and yet are happy to sleep separately from their partner when they argue. No one can judge others on how their relationship works; so long as people are happy in their relationship, it doesn’t matter where in the house they sleep!”
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