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We occasionally sleep separately because of my husband’s jet-lag, he’s an international pilot and has time zone issues so is awake at odd hours, and I am a shockingly light sleeper who once awake finds it nearly impossible to get back to sleep.

So mostly we try to sleep together, but sometimes with an early call or something, we just have to sleep apart.And we are not as young as we were, so the problem gets a bit harder each year.

Having said that, I’d hate to think of a permanent such arrangement – marriage is for cuddling and feeling your soulmate next to you, not just the sexual side. If we slept separately as a rule, I think intimacy would definitely suffer, and not just physical intimacy.