How To! Sleep Apart to Save Your Relationship

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Sleep is objectively worse when splitting a bed. Yet that’s the default for most couples. But that doesn’t mean sharing the covers is easy. Especially when one person is having trouble falling or staying asleep. On this episode of How To!, the second in a two-part series, co-host Carvell Wallace continues the conversation with Dr. Wendy Troxel, author of Sharing the Covers: Every Couple’s Guide to Better Sleep. Dr. Troxel explains how couples can experiment with sleeping arrangements in a way that makes everyone feel safe, and why sleeping apart might be the key to saving your relationship. If you liked this episode, check out: “How To Stop Snoring (and Breathe Easier).” Do you have a problem that’s keeping you up at night? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. Podcast production by Derek John, Rosemary Belson, Kevin Bendis, and Jabari Butler. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on How To!. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.2	I am so aware that he's beside me and like, oh he's breathing any slight movement. Like
1:10.0	I'm like, oh I'm up.
1:12.5	Welcome to How To. I'm Carveau Wallace. This is the second of a two-part series on sleep
1:17.9	and how to get more of it. Last week we met Vanessa, a radio host and entrepreneur who
1:23.6	has been struggling with symptoms of insomnia for years.
1:27.4	I just remember having sleeping issues when I was younger but not so much because of anxiety
1:33.6	but I think more of excitement. But eventually I would fall asleep. It was probably university
1:40.0	days where I started really noticing, okay like it's getting tougher for me to fall asleep.
1:47.8	Right.
1:48.8	Yeah.
1:49.8	Over the years she's developed some coping strategies like wearing ear plugs to drown out the
1:54.7	noise, using mantras to convince herself that she's safe and secure or just creating a
1:59.8	cozy sleep environment. And yet when her partner stays the night, all bets are off.
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