Sleep positions decode relationships

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American Researchers Mark Goulston and Samuell Dunkell would probably see it differently. They say a couple’s sleep position reveals a lot about the state of the relationship.

The researchers have given names to different sleep positions and interpreted their meaning. Couples who sleep back to back with their bottoms touchin, for example, are bonded sexually and sensuously but might like independence. What is commonly known as the spoon position, in which couples snuggle up to each other front to back, betrays a dominance of one partner over the other.

Couples freshly in love often sleep intertwined in a love know, the researchers said.

A couple who don’t touch at all over night and who turn their backs towards each other, indicates tension, Goulston and Dunkell said.

Sleep specialists and relationship counsellors, however, warn not to read too much into the interpretations. “Sleep habits are very individual and therefore shouldn’t be over estimated.”

More than anything else they have to do with what a person is used to and it is known that they can chage sometimes easily and sometimes with difficulty. HT Patna April 16, 06