(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- If you’re still looking for a Valentine’s Day gift for your spouse, you may want to consider a second bed.
A new survey finds one in five couples who live together are sleeping in different bedrooms. But, wait: It’s not necessarily what you may think.
The survey done by the Rosemont-based International Housewares Association last month found the main driver here is what Marketing Vice President Leana Salamah calls “incompatible sleep behavior.”
This includes snoring, talking while sleeping and more issues that aren’t resolved by simply placing two beds in the same room.
Salamah says longer relationships tend to lead to separate rooms. Three out of 4 couples sleeping separately have been living together for more than a decade.
Two bedrooms doesn’t automatically spell trouble.
Just over half in the survey said the arrangement improved or didn’t change their relationship.
Working from home and other COVID changes may be contributing to the move across the hall.
Twenty-two percent who are sleeping separately say it started in the last year.
And with that separate bedroom comes the chance to decorate. Salamah says her industry is seeing more collapsible furniture and other options such as mini fridges for beverages and cosmetics.
Some vendors at the association’s Inspired Home Show at McCormick Place next month are offering products to customize sleeping spaces.
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