Hi there, it's Matt here and welcome back to the podcast. In the last episode we spoke in detail about sleeping together, about having a sleep divorce, and how to navigate

exploring that possibility of a sleep separation together. Today we're going to go even deeper because it's

been said that sleep is the new sex and rightly so a good night of sleep is going to do many things for the vibrancy, the intimacy,

even the vitality of your relationship.

First, what we know is that when couples are not

getting sufficient sleep they will have more conflicts the next day and

furthermore they don't resolve those conflicts nearly as well and the reason in part

is because under slept couples will suffer a loss in empathy for one another and as a result they're not able to understand the

others needs the other's emotions and the other's intentions which ultimately

leads to more of a stalemate within that conflict.

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Well when you are not getting sufficient sleep, first your reproductive hormones suffer, which

are critical for the health of your sexual relationship.

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