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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a husband and I'm not a fan of the saying, but not all things are equal between men and women.  For instance, a recent study found that lack of sleep affected marital happiness -- but only if the lack of sleep was the wife's.  The husband's lack of sleep  did not have a large impact on marriage overall.

So there may be some truth that making a wife happy is more important for the relationship than making a husband happy.  [/quote]

But this is a population study vs. person to person. I'm the poster whose husband battled depression. Since he wouldn't take meds we worked on other things that may help like ensuring he got more sleep (he wasn't getting nearly enough) and starting exercising again (he used to be an avid runner and biker before kids and that had stopped). I had already found ways to incorporate adequate sleep and exercise in my routine and he hadn't. That along with counseling made a difference.

So while on a population level women may do worse with less sleep, in our house it was something we targeted for my husband. I don't know - I just don't buy that if I'm balanced and healthy (because no one is happy all the time) that my husband is. He, and we, needed to work to get him more balanced/happier and THEN things got better.[/quote]

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