DO you and your partner have your set sides of the bed when you sleep?
A relationship expert has revealed why it’s actually better if you switch things up and regularly swap sides with the other person you share a bed with.
A relationship pro has said it can be a green flag if you swap sides of the bed with your partnerCredit: Getty
TikTok user Angelina Murphy sparked a debate after saying her and her husband ‘randomly pick a side of the bed’ each nightCredit: tiktok/@renovatingourhome
A debate started online after TikToker Angelina Murphy, 29, uploaded a clip on her @renovatingourhome account about her sleeping habits with husband Skyler Johnson, 33.
She said: “It’s never discussed; we just randomly pick a side when we go to sleep.”
Over 7,000 people chimed in with their thoughts, and many of them were baffled at the claim. Some even labelled the couples “monsters” and one even strongly claimed it was “serial killer behaviour”.
However, relationship expert and sociology professor Pepper Schwartz defended the “unusual” bedtime routine and said it “sounds great”.
She said to Insider: “I think that they’re freed from a kind of possessiveness about order that most of us have, and it makes their life a lot more flexible.
“The fact that these people have never decided that, ‘okay, this is a way we order our lives together,’ makes people nervous because it kind of questions the whole way everybody creates a couple life.”
She said most people are “creatures of habit” and it’s “curious” and “terrifying” to others when humans don’t follow the status quo.
Pepper added: “I think it’s truly disturbing to people that somebody’s living without a habit.”
The relationship whizz also theorised that the thought of not having a side of the bed triggers some people as we are a “pretty territorial kind of species”.
Angelina, who has been with Skyler for nearly 11 years, responded to the outrage, saying: “We knew it was unusual, but we didn’t realise it was this unusual.”
One person asked her: “What about your nightstands? Like you just Willy nilly have your stuff everywhere?”
Angelina replied that their bedside tables are “basically glorified junk drawers” and they have interchangeable phone chargers on both sides.
