Anonymous wrote:I genuinely always thought the separate twin beds thing was just a product of early television and a belief it was improper to show a couple in bed together. I never thought people actually did that IRL.

(Separate rooms I totally understand. But it never occurred to me that a couple had two beds in the same room.)

Your post just reminded me that Lucy and Ricky slept in separate beds on I Love Lucy. I believe Fred and Ethel did too.

Anonymous wrote:Separate bedrooms = sexless marriage, in most cases.

Not really.

Separate bedrooms = sexless marriage, in most cases.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I genuinely always thought the separate twin beds thing was just a product of early television and a belief it was improper to show a couple in bed together. I never thought people actually did that IRL.

(Separate rooms I totally understand. But it never occurred to me that a couple had two beds in the same room.)

If someone tosses and turns in their sleep on a shared mattress, it is likely to bounce the other person awake. If they are on separate mattresses, it's less likely to bother the other sleeper.

We went from king bed with shared duvet to separate duvets, to twin beds to separate rooms.

PP here. I'm not judging it, just surprised to just now be learning people do it. And DH and I are well on our way...started with separate sheet/duvet several years ago and DH sleeps in the guest bed whenever one of us is sick...and lately I've started "declaring sickness" more and more frequently.

My mom’s parents slept in the same bed. My dad’s mom was a widow of many years and had two twins in her room. All born during the 1910s/20s.

Anonymous wrote:I genuinely always thought the separate twin beds thing was just a product of early television and a belief it was improper to show a couple in bed together. I never thought people actually did that IRL.

(Separate rooms I totally understand. But it never occurred to me that a couple had two beds in the same room.)

If someone tosses and turns in their sleep on a shared mattress, it is likely to bounce the other person awake. If they are on separate mattresses, it's less likely to bother the other sleeper.

We went from king bed with shared duvet to separate duvets, to twin beds to separate rooms.

I genuinely always thought the separate twin beds thing was just a product of early television and a belief it was improper to show a couple in bed together. I never thought people actually did that IRL.

(Separate rooms I totally understand. But it never occurred to me that a couple had two beds in the same room.)

Paternal Grandparents born in 1905, both slept in the same bed.

Maternal grandparents died before my mother was in high school.

Grandparents born in 1910 and 1917 had two twin beds pushed together until they moved to their last apartment. That one had a bedroom that was long and narrow, so they separated the beds and put the small night tables in between - that was the width of the room.

Mine also did the twin beds pushed together. Must have been such a PITA making those beds every morning.

One set of grandparents slept in the same room/bed but had separate bathrooms. It had been one very large bathroom that they remodeled into two. That always seemed like such a nice luxury to me, especially because my grandmother’s bathroom was charmingly decorated.

The other set shared a bedroom but had separate beds with a nightstand in between - like the classic 50s sitcom arrangement.

Yes, both sets slept in the same bed, queen and full sized beds. They were born in the early 1900s. My parents always shared a king sized bed. I shared a bed with my XH for most of the time we were together but the last 6 or 7 years, once things were deteriorating, we were in separate bedrooms.

I am 48, and all my grandparents are long gone. However, when I was young, back in the 80s, I distinctly recall both sets sleeping in seperate twin beds. Given that my paternal grandparents had ten kids and maternal had seven, it's reasonable to assume that they shared a bed at some point.

One set of mine slept in same room in separate twin beds - managed to have 6 kids so they made it work. I remember thinking it was super weird as a kid but now it sounds sort of nice.

Both sets slept in the same room but separate twin beds. DH and I sleep in separate rooms.