Do you think sleeping in the same bed as your partner is important for a loving and healthy relationship? Well, a couple who live in New York are bucking the traditional order and have been recording their lives by sleeping apart. Casey Taylor and her husband Andy have been sleeping in separate beds since the beginning of their marriage. However, their sleeping arrangement caught the attention of the internet when Casey shared the news of her purchase of bunk beds on TikTok and Instagram. The video has more than 7.4 million views.
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Now, in an interview with People , the couple, who live with two cats, share why they chose the sleeping spot and how they found a bunk bed on Amazon for $350, which is about ₹29 634. Having received a bed, they built it themselves and slept with each of their cats separately.
“It’s best to sleep alone”
According to the TikToker, sleeping on a bunk bed helped her and her husband feel refreshed and energized in the morning. She explained: “While I can’t tell you exactly what the future holds, I can assure you that the option to sleep separately will always be there for us.”
She added: “It’s not to say that sometimes we don’t want the intimacy of lying in each other’s arms, but when it comes to actually sleeping, we think of it as a healthy practice, and we think that being apart helps us wake up best and refreshed.” ready for a good day.’ According to Casey, if they go back to sharing a large master bed in the future, they’ll always have a nice second option to accommodate sleeping schedules.
Normalization of individual sleep
After Casey shared her and her husband’s sleep patterns on social media, many people expressed support for normalizing their own sleep patterns. She told People: “We’ve had so many people say, ‘Thank you for normalizing sleeping apart; my friends and family think we’re crazy!’. Although most people do not sleep in bunk beds, many couples sleep separately. It’s become such a big conversation, I think, because it’s so widely explored in real life but silenced in outside conversations for fear of judgment.”
She added: “I’ll take a little bit of hate any day knowing that millions of people feel seen and validated. Hate means nothing when you have the opportunity to create a community based on connection and reality.”
