Bedtime battles........

This seemed to hit home for me.

From the BBC website.....

Bed sharing 'drains men's brains'

Bed sharing disturbed sleep quality
Sharing a bed with someone could temporarily reduce your brain power - at least if you are a man - Austrian scientists suggest.

When men spend the night with a bed mate their sleep is disturbed, whether they make love or not, and this impairs their mental ability the next day.

The lack of sleep also increases a man's stress hormone levels.

According to the New Scientist study, women who share a bed fare better because they sleep more deeply.

So, this doctor now has a study proving that sleeping together actually drains a man's brainpower?!?!?!

Let me back up here. I'll first explain that my wife is one of those types of people that like to 'snuggle' when she goes to sleep. I, on the other hand, am one of those people that simply likes to lay down and go to sleep without another person having their arms, legs, etc. laying upon them. So we always have this amusing tango of bed positioning.

It always begins with me on the left side of the bed. My wife lays down on the right side of the bed, but within seconds, she quickly creeps across the bed to the point where she is laying right next to me. The amusing part is that we have a king-size bed, so literally, when my wife finishes moving over, the entire right side of the mattress is literally empty. My obvious thought on this is that I'm not sure why we didn't just buy a double mattress and avoid spending money on the other half of the bed that never gets used.

By the middle of the night, I often find myself literally hanging off the left edge of the bed as my wife has further creeped towards me over the next few hours. I have actually fallen off the bed twice in our marriage because I obviously kept moving over in my sleep until finally I simply ran out of room. Who would have known that sleeping could be hazardous to your health? Couple that with the fact that the dog sleeps on the floor on my side of the bed, and you have a situation where the dog could be crushed to death because of my wife's need for cuddling!!!!!

I have taken steps to combat the slow movement off the edge of my bed. My most efficient positioning maneuver is definitely where I lay down in the bed in the center of the bed before my wife shows up. This gives me more room to move over the course of the night as my wife makes her nightly progression from the right to the left side of the bed. I have also made sure to move her pillows to the far right side of the bed. It makes her lay down a bit more to the right and also allows more room for the right to left movement.

I hope that some of you benefit from these suggestions. For some of you, it may literally save your dog's life.