How does any couple ever sleep in a standard sized double???

[Battisborough]

We are in a rental tonight and I feel like im in a small box trap with my husband way too close!

How does anyone sleep with another person so close and so little space to move about and stretch???

Double implies it’s a bed for two people but a double bed is definitely not designed for two people who have reached adulthood.

Yes this. Happy Days.😄

Ha - me too @Iloveyoubut and DH is 6’5 so no idea how we managed it. Now we have a king size but for the last 7 years there’s always been a child in the middle. We sleep fine and don’t feel too crowded.

I rule out any holiday rentals with less than a king size usually or else what happens now is that any doubles are occupied by one adult and one child so it’s not quite as cramped.

I keep trying to tell my parents this. We sleep in their bed when we visit and I don't know how they haven't gone mad. They have more than enough space for a bigger bed.

Ha that's so funny. I was literally just stretching in bed thinking how nice it is to not have to share my (double!) bed with my duvet-hogging ex anymore when I saw this post! 😁

I couldn't bear it. We have a super king and I wouldn't want anything smaller.

As young lovers we could sleep in my single in my student digs and get up to plenty on that bed! Now we have a super king with a lot more room and a lot lot lot less activity!

OP you brought back a good memory of young love for me! Thanks

Yes, this was me, but if you spend a good few nights in a king, you'll see how much better it is. You don't miss what you never had, but once you realise how blissful it is to have more room, you won't look back.

I've only ever had a double. I'm currently single, but it's never been an issue with a partner.

We have a super king and I still end up squashed to one side with DD lying on me 😂 but I agree a double is such a squash!

I remember doing this in a small single at uni

I sleep in a king on my own - usually with one or two cats. There's no way I'm sleeping with another person in here. No room & no inclination.

You snugglers 2 in a double are impressive.

For the same reason they manage on an average wage, as a single parent, in a flat, send their kids to state school etc etc. Because the average life/choices in the UK appear to be a long way away from the average life/choices of the most vocal mumsnetters.

We have a superking and it's so hard having to sleep in a double on holidays. I hate being touched while I'm sleeping and it's always freezing because the double duvet has a huge gap at the sides where it doesn't quite cover you both.

We share a king size at home. But at my parents it's a small double (4foot), and that's a squeeze- I am 5foot 10 and him 6 foot 2, I am less overweight than I was and its not comfortable for more than a few nights...

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Anything smaller than super king and I’m not interested.

We had an emperor for a bit (two mattresses on one base) but switched down to a super king. This was after 15 years of a double in our old house. Love out current bed.

Super king, separate duvets or separate beds. If I'm booking a hotel and it's not clear I book a twin room.

Nothing worse than arriving for a weeks holiday to find just a double bed! In fact its ow non-negotiable it has to have a king.

We share a double.

The idea of the person I love accidentally touching me in the night doesn’t fill me with horror, but I can see I’m clearly in the minority here!

I bloody love my Super King size bed, and I live on my own (although I sometimes have a labrador sleep with me). The only downside is changing the bedding is a monumental pain in the arse!

And me!

DH and I have shared a double for the last 40 years. I love to snuggle up next to him and we both sleep like logs. I feel lost in a king size if on holiday. I guess it's just what you get used to.

I think it's just what you get used to. We were fine in a normal double for the first 15 years of our marriage, we did move up to a king at that point but don't have room for a superking, they feel too big when we stay in hotels that have them. We don't sleep touching but that is possible even in the narrow double (Queen?) one we share at FIL's.

I guess it depends on heights and size? Me and my husband are tall so we had a double when we were younger. It was nice to snuggle but small when we stretched out. We're both more comfortable in a king. My teen has a double and looks perfectly comfortable.