Spouses may find that sharing a bedroom can become more tedious than romantic. To keep the bedroom from turning into a battle spouses need to communicate their problems and concerns to reach a compromised solution. Spouses should ponder these rules when discussing bedroom etiquette.
Do Not Snore
More than likely, one spouse snores throughout the night. This can cause many nights of restless sleep and countless cranky mornings. Couples need to come to an understanding of each other and find common ground. For the snorer, look into nasal strips, decongestants, or doctors. Cutting out late-night eating, smoking and alcohol consumption may even help in some cases. For the sufferer, buy ear plugs or try to drown the snoring out with a fan or music playing softly in the background.
Agree on a Bedroom Temperature
This could quite possibly be the second most common bedroom fight. To reach a solution, hot sleepers should avoid rigorous exercise before bed, drink plenty of cold water, take a cold shower or splash their face and hands with cold water before hopping into bed. Sleeping nude or using 100% cotton are also options to try and keep their body temperature down. Cold sleepers should wear extra clothing, invest in an electric blanket to wrap up in and manually adjust, or snuggle with their spouse for warmth.
Do Not Steal the Covers
Couples can tug and tug all they want, but they each know they aren’t retrieving those covers back. Keep an extra blanket under the bed or within close reach.
Set a Bed Time
Not only is it healthy for couples to hit they sheets at the same time, but it is bedroom etiquette to designate a lights out policy. Agree on thirty minutes of television once under the sheets or fifteen minutes of reading, but once the first person falls asleep the other should call it a night as well.
Make Time to Cuddle
Cuddling is romantic and proven to produce closeness between couples. However, spouses should part ways once they drift off into a deep sleep. If not, they will only wake up to a hot, sweaty, clingy entanglement. This is obviously not what spouses want to associate cuddling with.
Leave Pets Outside the Bedroom
The bedroom should be a husband and wife’s domain; pets can become territorial and ruin the experience of a couple’s reign.
Remove All Family Photos
This is a space shared between a husband and wife. This is where a husband and wife are intimate and there is no need to feel like they have their in-laws watching their every move.
Do Not Bring Cell Phones Into the Bedroom
The only exceptions should be for urgent work calls or emergency family calls. Otherwise, the phone just becomes a distraction from sleep and from each other.
Make the Bedroom Inviting
Couple’s should decorate with their favorite colors, honeymoon memorabilia, and wedding photos. The bedroom should focus on the two as a happily married couple. Investing in a good mattress and pillows as well, will allow them to feel well-rested and stress relief.
Agree on Who Makes the Bed
Some couples take turns other’s flip a coin or play rock paper scissor. The main point here is not to argue about it, and to just have fun with it.
