Like every evening, Anaïs, 40, puts on her pajamas, applies her night cream and then goes off to read one last story to her daughter.
Last step before going to join Morphée: knock on the door of her husband's room, give him a tender kiss, then go back to the next room.
After eleven years of common bed, whole nights punctuated by nudging, duvet pulling and other gnashing of teeth, the couple opted for
sleep divorce
, ("divorce du sleep" in French), in other words for the separate layer. .
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In France, if night cohabitation remains a majority choice, 8% of couples stay in separate rooms, according to the results of the Ifop / Femme Actuelle survey in 2015, and nearly one in six French people do not recognize themselves. in the “dominant model” of the couple sleeping in the same room.
Among Anglo-Saxons, this practice meets with growing success, including among celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow.
In the United Kingdom, the proportion of "sleep divorced"
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