Voices: Cameron Diaz is right – separate beds are the key to a good relationship
Sleep is a delicate thing. Given we are unconscious for anywhere between five and 10 hours, it is when we are at our most vulnerable. There might be sudden jerks: a flailing limb here, starfishing leg position there. Perhaps there are sounds: inaudible murmurs and moans resulting from lucid dreams; grunts and snorts because of some undiagnosed nasal condition. Sometimes there is also gas.
My point is . And yet, for whatever reason, it has been sold to us as something we must share with another person. Not just once in a while. But night after night, month after month, year after year. The idea is that, once you , you enter into some sort of silent tyrannical contract that compels you to share a bed for literally no reason other than “it’s just what people do”.
