A growing trend has occurred with many married couples sleeping alone in different bedrooms.

CNN Reports that, “a 2001 random telephone survey of 1,004 adults conducted by the National Sleep Foundation found that 12 percent of married Americans slept alone; a similar survey of 1,506 people found that number had jumped to 23 percent. In addition, a March online survey of 1,408 couple conducted by the Sleep Council of England found that 1 in 4 people regularly retreats to a spare room or sofa to get a good night’s sleep.”

The preference for separate spaces has even started to affect home design. As reported by the National Association of Home Builders, there’s been a steady increase in the number of requests for “two-master bedroom” homes since 1990, causing the organization to predict that by 2015, 60 percent of all custom upscale homes will be built with two “owner suites.”

William F. Harley Jr., a marriage counselor and clinical psychologist from Minnesota, warns that sleeping separately could spell trouble.

Harley is quoted by CNN as saying, “whenever I see a couple wanting private time – they want to be alone, they want their own friends, they don’t want to feel like they’re joined at the hip – my immediate question is, ‘What is it about being together that bothers you?’ … My feeling is that sleeping together is a very, very important part of being integrated with each other.”

William F. Harley Jr. is the author of the book, ‘Love Busters: Overcoming the Habits that Destroy Romantic Love.’

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