He snores. She's restless. He likes to fall asleep watching television. She likes complete quiet.
People who love each other may often have completely different sleep styles and many couples cope with the issue with separate beds or even separate rooms.
According to the Ryerson Sleep and Depression Lab in Canada, about 30 to 40 percent of couples sleep in different beds.
This could be a return to older styles of sleeping. From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the middle class bedroom often had separate beds. But the idea of twin beds was mocked as fake or prudish by the 1970s, according to Atlas Obscura.
