Jul 18, 2022

Bedtime preferences aren’t featured on dating profiles. Likewise, they don’t factor into first-date conversations. In fact, as a general rule, they go undiscussed long into the courtship process, setting up couples for a rude awakening if one is an early bird and the other is a night owl. Or at the very least it sets up a rude awakening for the night owl. The early bird is cheerfully flitting around the house with coffee brewing, NPR blaring, and the day’s Wordle completed as dawn has just started breaking. Differences in sleep patterns don’t matter until they do. So how can a couple consisting of someone who’s up and at ‘em in the a.m. and another who’s a snooze button slammer make it work?

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When we had kids, I really started to appreciate how my husband is up with the sun naturally. He took care of the kids when they were toddlers waking up at some ungodly hour.

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