Trouble Sharing Bed Sheets? Use Two!
Sep. 1st, 2022 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerHumorous images and memes about couples having trouble sharing the bed sheets have been around for years. One partner grabs way more of the covers than is left for the other. Even manufacturers have gotten in on the joke with novelty sheets such as these:
Usually it's the woman who's portrayed as the blanket hog, though not always.
My partner and I used to have problems like these... though without resorting to solutions like hammer and nails. She'd go to bed first and have the blanket all scrunched up, and I'd have to pull it off her when I came to bed to straighten it so we could share.
Even when we were sharing the covers close to 50/50 there'd still be problems. It was too far up, so my feet stuck out the bottom (I'm much taller). Or it wouldn't cover down both sides well enough, a particular concern in the winter when we sometimes kept our heat a bit lower.
One solution we tried was to buy oversized sheets. We bought a king size blanket for our queen size bed. That helped with some of the doesn't-go-all-down problems but still didn't solve the blanket hog type problems.
The best solution we figured out a few years ago is just use two sheets. With different sheets and blankets on the bed for her and me there are almost never conflicts over who has how much of it. There's a whole sheet or blanket for each of us!
The two-sheets approach also solves differences in preferred temperature, weight, and texture. I usually like a thinner sheet while she prefers a heavier blanket. With one sheet or blanket shared, it was almost impossible to satisfy both of us. Now we're both routinely comfortable.
We also have differences in preferred texture. The sheet and blanket I like the feel of best, she finds "itchy". The blanket she likes best, I hate the feel of when it touches my skin. Now we don't have to negotiate on who gets their way. We both get our way, every time.
Usually it's the woman who's portrayed as the blanket hog, though not always.
My partner and I used to have problems like these... though without resorting to solutions like hammer and nails. She'd go to bed first and have the blanket all scrunched up, and I'd have to pull it off her when I came to bed to straighten it so we could share.
Even when we were sharing the covers close to 50/50 there'd still be problems. It was too far up, so my feet stuck out the bottom (I'm much taller). Or it wouldn't cover down both sides well enough, a particular concern in the winter when we sometimes kept our heat a bit lower.
One solution we tried was to buy oversized sheets. We bought a king size blanket for our queen size bed. That helped with some of the doesn't-go-all-down problems but still didn't solve the blanket hog type problems.
The best solution we figured out a few years ago is just use two sheets. With different sheets and blankets on the bed for her and me there are almost never conflicts over who has how much of it. There's a whole sheet or blanket for each of us!
The two-sheets approach also solves differences in preferred temperature, weight, and texture. I usually like a thinner sheet while she prefers a heavier blanket. With one sheet or blanket shared, it was almost impossible to satisfy both of us. Now we're both routinely comfortable.
We also have differences in preferred texture. The sheet and blanket I like the feel of best, she finds "itchy". The blanket she likes best, I hate the feel of when it touches my skin. Now we don't have to negotiate on who gets their way. We both get our way, every time.
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Date: 2022-09-02 02:30 pm (UTC)