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Family quarrels are the result of sleeping together
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
It would seem that such a seemingly trivial tendency to pull the blanket over oneself during sleep is one of the main reasons for quarrels between lovers. 10% of couples can break up because one of the partners wakes up at night because of the cold.
Every adult has probably encountered this at least once. You suddenly wake up in the night feeling cold and realize that the person you are sharing the bed with has pulled the blanket over themselves. As British sociologists have found out, in Foggy Albion, an over-pulled blanket is the second main reason for family quarrels after snoring.
Although the most reasonable way out of such a situation would be to buy a second blanket, 10% of survey participants said that they would break up with their other halves if they did not stop regularly pulling the blanket over themselves. In every tenth couple, it turns out, such conflicts happen twice a week or more.
A survey of 2,000 people in marriages or stable cohabiting relationships, commissioned by Premier Inn, found that half of respondents were affected by their spouse or partner's snoring, and 20% lost two hours of sleep each night as a result of snoring. It is the most common cause of marital discord.
Other reasons cited besides snoring and pulling the blanket included...
- allowing children to sleep in their parents' bed,
- sleeping on the "other" half of the bed (if the partner moves there during sleep),
- touching warm skin with cold feet,
- a lamp that stays on for a long time at night, with the help of which the waking spouse or partner reads a book.
On average, 167 family quarrels a year break out between partners due to uncomfortable sleep situations.
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