Can sleeping apart help a relationship?

For the partners of chronic snorers, sleep can prove elusive, no matter how many foam earplugs you test out – but sleeping separately may seem like a last resort for a relationship. However, a leading sleep scientist has advised couples dealing with this issue to see having different bedrooms as the “beginning of a new relationship”. 

 Better sleep will ideally make both partners “happier, more responsive to each other, less irritable”, according to Russell Foster, a professor of circadian neuroscience at the University of Oxford. 

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