Lack of sleep makes wives cranky with their spouses. Really.

By Chris Woolston, HealthKey / For the Booster Shots blog
June 14, 2011, 2:39 p.m.
Here’s some breaking news: A study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh’s Sleep Medicine Institute has found that wives can be grumpy with their husbands if they don't get a good night’s sleep.

Perhaps future research can determine whether husbands tend to hog the covers, whether the other side of the pillow is in fact cooler or whether the setting sun has some effect on darkness.

The researchers likely could have made the same discovery by simply talking to anyone who has ever been married. But they took a more scientific approach. They equipped 32 couples (average age, early 30s) with sensors that tracked their sleep patterns for 10 nights. And each day, they surveyed the husbands and wives to see how they were getting along.

The study found that women — but not men — tended to be more irritable and less positive with their spouses after a bad night’s sleep. It’s no secret that sleep-deprived men can have foul moods of their own. Perhaps the husbands in this study simply did a good job of hiding their feelings from their wives. Or from the researchers.

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http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-snoring-spouse-20110614,0,5362616.story

I need ten to twelve to be functional.

long-term with fours hours' sleep each night. I would be a zombie. :D

were separate bedrooms for husband and wife, usually adjacent and separated by a door or even closet.

There's a reason for that. After the first six months, co sleeping is just not romantic.

I need 9 he needs 5. I showed him this article, so he would quit waking me up! I am going crazy and getting grumpy!
Now, I can blame it on real research!

Thanks