Early Birds & Night Owls
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
A common difference between many husbands and wives is where one likes to wake up early and the other prefers to sleep in late. If left unaddressed, this can lead to a lot of conflict in a marriage. How do you navigate a relationship where one spouse is an early bird, and the other is a night owl? John, Greg and Erin discuss how to work through different sleeping habits as a couple.
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| 0:41.1 | podcast. Hey this is John Fuller and way back when my wife and I first got |
| 0:46.6 | married she would go to bed really early and I would stay up for a few hours |
| 0:51.1 | after that because I just I couldn't go to bed at eight thirty at night and then |
| 0:55.2 | I'd get up at six and she'd get up at six or seven and so she was neither a |
| 0:59.1 | morning person nor a night person. I tend to be a night person but as we age it's |
| 1:05.6 | starting to kind of shift a little bit here. In any event there are some conflicts |
| 1:10.4 | that can occur around your sleep patterns in marriage and we're going to talk |
| 1:14.8 | about that today. We have Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron. They're in charge |
| 1:19.8 | of our marriage team and I'm thinking that this is a pretty common thing right |
| 1:25.1 | right? Oh absolutely. We all have different sleep habits. We have issues within |
| 1:31.1 | the bed. When we first got married Aaron loved to have a quilt a blanket two |
| 1:37.6 | sheets and some sort of warming blanket to go to go over the top of our bed and |
| 1:45.7 | I was so hot that finally I learned that just to kind of slide all that over to |
| 1:52.0 | her side and then I would sleep with some sort of quilt or something that worked |
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