What Your Bedtime Routine Says About Your Relationship

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Bedtime is a sacred time. You probably have your routines to make sure you are fully relaxed and ready for a good night’s rest. You likely have your hygiene routines, too. Maybe you do a little tidying up around the apartment or house because you hate to wake up to a messy home. Whoever you are, you have a bedtime routine. Even if you don’t have one, that is one. When you start living with a significant other, your bedtime routine can be thrown off. Your partner has his own nighttime habits that could directly interfere with yours. For example, what if he needs total silence in the home an hour before bed and you like to play classical music throughout your apartment? What if he gets his best creative thoughts right before going to sleep—thoughts he needs to say out loud—and you prefer no talking in bed? Here’s what your bedtime routine says about your relationship.

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You wait for each other

If you and your partner don’t go to bed at drastically different times, then you can wait for the other person to come to bed before drifting off. When you’re in bed, you’re both finally totally disconnected from life. You can get in a little snuggle time. And there is something intimate about drifting off at the same time. If you wait for your partner to go to sleep, you’re probably very bonded.