The posture when sleeping as a couple indicates the quality of the relationship

The position in which couples sleep in bed and the separation distance that they maintain between the two can be an indicator of the level of happiness and fulfillment that the relationship lives.

At least that is what emerges from a study led by the American psychologist Richard Wiseman, from Hertfordshire University (United Kingdom), and whose results were published at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

The posture when sleeping indicates the quality of your relationship with your partner

It seems that our sleeping position could predict a series of factors related to our way of being, as we saw in the previous article "The position in which you sleep says a lot about your personality”. It is also important to remember the 8 serious health consequences of sleeping for a few hours: sleep is a basic function for our brain and our body to rest.

Data revealed by the study

Now this research has drawn interesting conclusions after examining the habits of more than one thousand of people with regard to the quality of the affective relationship and its correlation with certain habits of break:

• 42% of the couples studied used to sleep with their backs to each other.

• 31% sleep tilted to the same side.

• Only 4% of the total rests face to face.

• 34% sleep maintaining physical contact.

• 12% sleep at a distance of less than 2.5 centimeters.

• 2% sleep with a separation of 75 centimeters or more.

Some curious conclusions

The investigation collects the legacy of the psychiatrist Samuel Dunkell, who has already developed certain concepts and studied the way couples develop in the moment of sleep and compared it with the degree of happiness in the relationship. He established that couples who live a sweeter moment and who live the relationship to the fullest are those who sleep face to face and maintain physical contact.

In case they are not touching while resting, a good indicator of the quality of the relationship is that they sleep facing the same side. "93% of couples who sleep in contact declared that they feel very happy in the relationship, while the percentage dropped to 68% among couples who do not sleep maintaining physical contact, ”says Wiseman, who argues that couples who sleep at a distance greater than 75 centimeters expressed their unhappiness in the relationship.

The research also obtained interesting conclusions: the people with the highest score in extraversion are the who prefer to sleep close to their partner, while the most creative participants tend to lie on their side left. Dunkell discovered years ago that sleeping on your back was an indicator ofself-confidence and extraversion, or that sleeping on your stomach was a sign of perfectionist people. Sleeping with your legs crossed can indicate that you are a person with a tendency to commitment, and the fetal position is related to indecision, below-average self-esteem, and a certain predisposition to suffer anxiety.