How Similar Are Your Sleeping Routines?

Remember those early relationship days? Staying up all night on the phone, talking for hours, getting to know the other person? It’s somehow pretty easy at that moment to forget all about your own sleep cycles and just go with the schedule that makes sense for right that moment.

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It’s only the next day, when you’re yawning every five minutes that you remember how you’re not cut out for all nighters anymore.

But after a while, once you have settled into a steady routine (ick, as much as I don’t like that word) it isn’t just about fitting sleep somewhere into your relationship. You have to reclaim a good night’s sleep and do what’s right for your own sanity and happiness.

I sometimes stay up really late, but I’m a secret early riser. And although there are certainly times where it’s great to hop into bed together, I’ve realized that for the most part I have to go to bed when I need to go to bed…otherwise, I’m too cranky for words the next day – and no one wants to hang out with that Eve.