Could you cope with twin beds for one night?

[AnnaQuayInTheUk]

Just interested in what people think.

Our DC have grown up and left home, so we have two spare bedrooms. One has a double bed in, and is the room we usually give to guests. The other has twin beds in, both 3'6" beds with a small chest of drawers in between them on which there's a bedside light, a few books etc.

We've just had two sets of friends to stay for the weekend. Couple A arrived on Friday night and have just gone home. They got the double room.

Couple B arrived on Saturday afternoon and went a few hours ago (longer drive) and we put them the twin room. When they've visited before they've been the only couple here so have had the double room. They asked if we could rearrange the furniture so that the two single beds could be pushed together as they "couldn't sleep apart". So we ended up having to empty the chest of drawers, lug everything around and reassemble it on Saturday only to do it all in reverse this afternoon.

We've all known each other since uni, all been married for 30+ years and I was a bit surprised that they couldn't sleep with 3ft gap between them for one night. But then I decided maybe I was the exception.

So, for those of you who've been married/together for years, could you bear to sleep in the same room but not the same bed as your partner for one night, or would you have to rearrange all the furniture so that you could snuggle up together?

A long sharpened stick would solve that problem for you 😉

I would just be tempted to make a poor taste joke about their obviously rampant sex life at breakfast as they obviously are still at it like rabbits and cannot possibly to be apart! Haha. Ask them if you should install the double headed shower for their next sojourn.

First world problems.

Did you give them a biscuit and a glass of milk, and then they no doubt complained that the diameter of the glass was too small to dunk the biscuit?

I would say no.

They either stop being pathetic and sleep separately for one night or they get a hotel.

How rude of them to complain about the set up
They were obviously making a point and felt they had been put in the worst room.

i think that’s really weird! Are they very immature generally?

They sound like idiots, I'd push the beds further apart next time. I quite like twin beds, although it is trickier to hit dh when he starts snoring....have to throw something at him!

They behaved ridiculously.

I am surprised grown adults were not embarrassed to make such a pathetic request.

Love a twin bed when we are away.

I think they are utterly ridiculous that they couldnt sleep a foot apart

I love to cuddle. But this is ridiculous, of course I can cope on my own 😂 they sound a bit pathetic.

Been with DH 26 years. I would rearrange the furniture. Spoonerss gotta spoon 🤣

No problem here!

We had the opposite situation with guests many years ago. We had a double sofa bed in our spare room. SIL and her then fiancé came to stay and refused to sleep in the same bed because they were ‘waiting.’ Even though SIL had been married before and had lived with two different people long term. She and fiancé were recently born again Christians, so fair enough I suppose. But I had to borrow a single guest bed and wedge it into my car, then cram it into the room with the double sofa bed because apparently their morals didn’t extend to sleeping in separate rooms. We did offer the living room, but it was refused (because obviously we might have heard doors opening and floorboards creaking if they got up to any shenanigans😆)

For only one night? Absolutely. My DH and I have two separate double bedrooms because of his disabilities. On the four nights before my work days we have to sleep separately due to his difficulties otherwise I'd be no good for work next day or doing his morning care routine. One night is just no big deal really.

I think the men peeing off to the pub and not telling you to leave the furniture to them is rude.
I think non paying guests asking their hosts to rearrange furniture to suit them is super rude.

I'd also observe that mature couples being unable to function for one night with a small space between them is the mark of a poor relationship, not the mark of a secure/healthy relationship! I'm actually cringing for them.

They sound like a pair of weirdos, but then i'm entirely intolerant of people and their foibles (my circle is happily small, and I don't do overnight guests 😂).

Have never been married so can't answer for that. But I invited my parents to stay mid way through my holiday before. They were happy to take the twin beds and not kick me and my DD out of the double we had been sharing from the 1st day.
However, everyone is different and have different preferences when they sleep when in a couple. I've always had sleep issues and when in a relationship I sleep much better having someone there. When I was on holiday with my ex, I didn't like that we had been given seperate beds and we pushed them together and fell asleep on the 1 twin, usually I moved over to the other half way through the night then. But also for a stay at a friend for 1 night instead of a holiday I paid for, think this would be different and wouldn't want to inconvenience the host.
I don't think they were being rude, maybe they just sleep better together and didn't realise how much hassle it would be to move everything

If we were visiting someone and were shown to a guest room with twin beds neither DH nor I would dream of asking our hosts to change it around, especially for one night. So rude I think.

We are going away in January on a cruise and we know that our cabin is better if the beds are left in a twin configuration so we’re sticking with that. We’re away for a week and after 29 years of marriage twin beds won’t harm us. I’ve told DH I might invite him over for a cuddle if he’s lucky 🤣🤣

DP and I just returned from a week's holiday where we were allocated a family room -two double beds and a single. We spent one night in the same bed, then decided that actually, sprawling over the two beds was far preferable.

On that basis, twin beds for one night would not have incommoded us at all.

To be fair, they might well be 3', they are standard single beds. I thought standard singles were 3'6" but might be wrong. I should know as we bought new mattresses for them last year!

Pathetic, and rude of them.

The fun of sleeping in twin beds is bunking up in one of the beds together. Channel your inner freshers week energy!

Bliss

Me my ex ended up in one single bed together once when a hotel gave us twin beds by mistake (I'm gay, they assumed we were friends)!We did push them together (no furniture shifting involved and we obviously put them back) but we both ended up snuggled in just one bed.
My friend has a spare room with just one single bed and we slept in it happily several times.

It wouldn't bother me, but I can't believe you had to empty and disassemble a small piece of furniture to push the beds together. It's a chest of drawers, just move it?

Of course, I've even done it when fairly newly married! Your friends are being ridiculous, and if they had wanted the furniture rearranged I would have told them they were welcome to do it.

My DH and I used to prefer to cuddle up but - yes, we managed if the accommodation only had twin beds.

I need to reiterate that they are lovely people. They weren't rude or difficult, and I wasn't at all put out about this. I posted to ask because I was intrigued as to whether or not DH and I are weird for this not bothering us.