Sharing the Covers Every Couple's Guide to Better Sleep

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Help your relationships and your body with this definitive guide on sleep for couples—with proven strategies to improve both sleep and relationship health—by a clinical psychologist named as one of the top experts on the science of sleep. Dr. Wendy Troxel is a clinical psychologist and behavioral sleep specialist whose work is frequently cited in major media outlets as well as in recent bestselling books like Arianna Huffington's The Sleep Revolution and Dr. Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep. Dr. Troxel's mission is teaching couples to prioritize sleep and helping them find solutions to maximize the sleep quality for both partners, whether sleeping together or apart. Dr. Troxel says "Great sleep is the new great sex." In Sharing the Covers, she shows couples how vital it is to "sleep like your relationship depends on it"—because in many cases, it does. With popular science and an in-depth understanding of a couple's relationship to sleep and to each other on her side, Dr. Troxel leads couples through an entirely different kind of sleep book. She tells readers how to: Manage sleep cycles and sleep disorders Maintain a healthy sex life Decide on whether to ask for a "sleep divorce" and more A good night's sleep is critical to any relationship. Whether it's stress, snoring, or insomnia that's keeping you up, Sharing the Covers will help couples get back to sleep and get back to each other. Cover Title Page Copyright Introduction: Love in the Age of Sleeplessness How to Read this Book chapter one SLEEPING TOGETHER (OR NOT) chapter two SLEEP AS IF YOUR RELATIONSHIP DEPENDS ON IT chapter three A TOXIC DANCE chapter four A VIRTUOUS CYCLE chapter five HIS, HERS, AND OUR SLEEP chapter six ROOM FOR MORE? chapter seven ARE WE IN SYNC? chapter eight IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH chapter nine SNORING AND OTHER SHARED SLEEP STRUGGLES chapter ten NEGOTIATING THE NIGHT EPILOGUE Acknowledgments Discover More Notes