Couples who sleep apart stay together
SO Prince Charles and Camilla not only have separate beds — they have three bedrooms, reports have emerged.
According to palace insiders, Charles and Camilla have their own bedrooms at Clarence House, decorated just the way they like and a third one with a double bed they use when the moment takes them.
Sounds like a perfectly sensible idea to me.
I’d love my own room; to get a good night’s sleep without being woken up by my other half snoring, or a toddler slipping in-between us and thrashing about all night with their feet in my face, would be my idea of heaven.
It used to be the norm for couples to have separate bedrooms, but over time the idea you had to sleep next to your spouse or else were in a loveless relationshiptook hold.
Which is ridiculous, because having a sweaty great lump next to you all night doesn’t do much to increase the joy-o-meter of married life. Being able to starfish in your own bed and get a good night’s sleep might make both of you a little jollier to be around the next day.
Obviously, having a room of one’s own is to increase wellbeing and improve the relationship, not just to hide from each other, as Charles and Diana did after the birth of Prince Harry.
Clearly that was less about getting some z’s and more about getting the hell away.
The key is to include lots of cuddle time when you do meet in the morning, which is perhaps what Charles and Camilla use their third room for, although it’s probably best we don’t think about that.
Nova’s Michael “Wippa” Wipfli confessed he sleeps in a separate bed to his wife Lisa earlier this year, saying on air, “Separate beds is the way to go.
“There are so many people who would say separate beds are healthy for your relationship. You get your best sleep, so when I’m with the family and we’re together she gets the best of me.”
It’s on the increase — one in four couples sleeps apart, according to research by the US National Sleep Foundation, and in America, real estate agents have reported an upsurge in demand for homes with two master bedrooms.
Imagine having two master suites — not only could you decorate your room just the way you want it, but never again would you have to suffer a man-poo polluting your ensuite.
For anyone who lives with a fusspot partner, like I do, this could be the answer to all your problems. The last time I bought bedsheets unsupervised by my minimalistic man, it nearly ended in divorce over a pintuck.
In fact, I could even go as far as to do a Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton and live in adjoining houses, if I had the means. Which I don’t.
But then again, maybe not: Despite the couple managing to have two children together, they split up in 2014. It was an amicable separation they said; they probably didn’t even notice.
