Why Cameron Diaz is right – separate beds are the key to a good relationship
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Sleeping is hardly a time for romance. And yet, for whatever reason, it has been sold to us as something we must share with another person
Cameron Diaz in ‘The Holiday’
Sleep is a delicate thing. Given we are unconscious for anywhere between five and 10 hours, it is when we are at our most vulnerable. There might be sudden jerks: a flailing limb here, starfishing leg position there. Perhaps there are sounds: inaudible murmurs and moans resulting from lucid dreams; grunts and snorts because of some undiagnosed nasal condition. Sometimes there is also gas.
My point is that sleeping is hardly a time for romance. And yet, for whatever reason, it has been sold to us as something we must share with another person. Not just once in a while. But night after night, month after month, year after year. The idea is that, once you find your soulmate, you enter into some sort of silent tyrannical contract that compels you to share a bed for literally no reason other than “it’s just what people do”.
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