Millions of adults sleep with another adult, but what does it mean to share a bed with someone else, and how does it affect a couple’s relationship? What happens when one partner snores? Steals the sheets? Prefers to sleep in the nude? To address these and other questions, Paul C. Rosenblatt asked couples to describe the struggles, challenges, and achievements of their bed-sharing experiences. Two in a Bed includes interviews with more than forty bed-sharing couples as they candidly discuss winding down and waking up, cold feet and tucked sheets, who sleeps near the door and who gets pushed to the edge, snoring, spooning, sleep talking, sleep walking, and the myriad other behaviors we negotiate in falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking up each morning beside a partner. In addition to exploring the routines and realities of sharing a bed with another person, these interviews reveal important information about sleep, relationships, and American society. Stressing the intricacy and importance of a previously unremarked activity, Rosenblatt’s Two in a Bed shows that sleep should no longer be viewed solely as an individual phenomenon.
Table des matières
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Forming the Couple System: Learning to Share a Bed
3. The Bed
4. Going to Bed
5. Activities in the Transition from Awake to Sleep
6. Temperature Preferences
7. Talking and Touching
8. Anger and the Couple Bed
9. Illness and Injury
10. How Can You Sleep So Soundly When I’m So Wide Awake?
11. Outside Intrusions into Couple Sleep
12. Bathroom Trips, Tossing and Turning, Restless Legs, Sleep Talking, Grinding Teeth, and Nightmares
13. Snoring and Sleep Apnea
14. Safety, Intimacy, and Why Couples Sleep Together
15. Waking Up in the Morning
16. Weekends
17. Everyday Life and the Couple System
Appendix
References
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Paul C. Rosenblatt is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author of many books, including (with Beverly R. Wallace)
African American Grief;
Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child;
Parent Grief: Narratives of Loss and Relationship; (with Terri A. Karis and Richard D. Powell)
Multiracial Couples: Black & White Voices; and
Metaphors of Family Systems Theory: Toward New Constructions.
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