A new study commissioned by the UK’s leading sleep specialist, Woolroom, has looked at the sleep and intimacy habits of UK couples.
The new survey found that over 1 in 4 (27 per cent) couples have broken their bed during a passionate night of love making.
Of those surveyed, 44 per cent were Gen Zs (19–24-year-olds), followed by over a third of Millennials (25-39), 20 per cent were Gen X lovers (40-55), with just eight per cent of Baby Boomers (55-74) saying they had busted their bed.
When broken down by region, those in Truro, Cornwall (50 per cent), Newcastle and Birmingham (40 per cent) were the hardest on their bed, followed by Stoke-on-Trent (39 per cent) and London (32 per cent), with the least rambunctious couples based in Oxford (15 per cent) and Bristol (14 per cent).
This news comes as Woolroom launches its ‘Your Side or Mine’ campaign, which aims to help couples find compatibility in their sleep environment by opting for natural bedding fibres such as wool and challenge the role both sleep and sex have in overall wellbeing and that more of one can promote more of the other.
Diving further into UK couples’ sleeping and intimacy habits, the sleep specialist found that 39% of couples were having regular disrupted sleep due to sharing a bed with their partner, with 1 in 6 reporting to sleep in a different room to their partner to get a better night’s sleep.
The biggest barrier preventing couples from co-sleeping was because they or their partner snore (66%), 42% said they or their partner move too much in the night and 37% reported feeling too hot or cold stopped them from getting precious shut eye.
When asked if sleeping separately was impacting the intimacy levels in their relationship, 1 in 9 couples said they weren’t as intimate due to sleeping in separate rooms or because neither of them were getting a good night’s sleep which made them less intimate. Overall, the results of the survey found that 41% reported having low or no intimacy at all, with only a third of UK couples happy with their sex lives.
Woolroom’s Sleep Expert, Chris Tattersall says: “Successful relationships are built on strong emotional connections and open communication; however, this can be often lost when we suffer from insufficient sleep. Sleeping next to someone has been proven to reduce anxiety, provide a sense of safety, increase happiness, and ultimately promote a deeper REM sleep – the most restorative sleep phase.
He continues, “We spend on average one third of our life in bed, so it is really important to create an environment and personalised sanctuary for both you and your partner to promote individual wellbeing as well as a healthy relationship.”
Furthermore, if you sleep with a partner and are prone to sleeping at different temperatures to one another, wool bedding will meet both of your needs by managing each side of the bed independently. This means for the 37% of couples surveyed, there’s no need to add an extra layer or resort to having one leg or arm out from under the covers, and more importantly change rooms.
Research conducted by Woolroom with Leeds University* found that wool bedding allowed 43% more moisture transmission than polyester and a massive 67% more than feather/down duvets, meaning wool can diffuse a larger amount of moisture across an eight-hour period, allowing you to sleep longer and deeper throughout the night with very limited disruptions.
