Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Are Separate Bedrooms The Kiss Of Death For My Marriage?

Mar. 28, 2023

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Are Separate Bedrooms The Kiss Of Death For My Marriage?

In the latest dispatch from Penelope — our columnist and go-to for all things motherhood, sex, romance, intimacy, and friendship — she's counseling a woman who's concerned about her husband sleeping in a different bedroom.

Currently pregnant, our letter writer says: "He lays beside me each night, reading a book or sometimes rubbing my back until I nod off, but when I wake up in the middle of the night to pee, as I inevitably do, I find him sound asleep on the futon in our guest room, sometimes surrounded by a stash of books, magazines, his laptop and headphones, an empty package of Oreo cookies, as though he's building a little nest for himself, away from our bed." On the one hand, she gets it; on the other, when is it time to freak out? Penelope has the answers.

Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor

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