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?

Oh well hello there gorgeous pup!
The reason I love when we get a room with two beds hahahahaha...bed hogs..

i’d love it tbh lol

You keep saying they’re ‘lovely’ but that’s quite a CF request. And if they were such good friends did you not think to ask any more questions about this or even take the piss a bit? I couldn’t help it, especially if her DH was out “so what’s with the beds then Jo? Is it that peak you have to rearrange our whole guest room?” (Tinkly laugh)

I think they were very rude.

Clean comfortable beds is fine. Size is irrelevant

And if they can't cope they need to grow up

Cheeky buggers, putting you out like that when you were hosting them.

We have separate rooms and bathrooms 😂
That's 100% the dream, truuuuuuuuuust. At first j was skeptical but now I'm a full convert!

My DP and I are a bit soppy and hate sleeping in separate beds but there is no way we’d have voiced this to the host or asked you to move anything around- we’d have just made sad eyes at one another over the bedside table and cracked on for a night!

We have separate bedrooms, I could cope with sharing a room with him for a couple of nights.

is there a reason why you HAVE to?

So precious 🥰

'squeeze' into a double??? how huge are you lol

Married 30 years and we have separate bedrooms 😂.

Love him dearly, but his snores would wake the dead… and I’m a wriggler.

Yes please! I love a twin bed.
We recently stayed at a hotel in Leicester where the twin room had 2 doubles. Absolute bliss.

Married 25 years. We’d be fine sleeping in separate beds for one night. We sleep with our backs to each other anyway, and we both use CPAPs so once it’s sleeping time there’s no cuddling or romance.

I don't think I know anyone who would mind this LOL! 😂

Most women I know don't just crave separate beds, but separate bedrooms!

I can't believe a couple who have been together 30+ years just cannot sleep anymore than 3" apart! 😂 They're batshit.

I know you say their words weren't rude but honestly, their expectations were. It's childish, selfish, immature and rude to even suggest they needed/wanted to move the beds. Ridiculous.

I would secretly love it. I love sleeping alone!

Tell them they are free to put them together if they wish. Absolutely no way would I be doing it for them. Love single beds

It would bother dh more than me but obviously he wouldn't make a fuss or ask for the beds to be moved. Me, I wouldn't care tbh. I like a bed to myself, even if it is a single.

Twin beds for one night, as a guest in someone else’s house?! Who the hell can’t cope with that?

I really like sharing a bed with my DP and I’d always rather have a double but I wouldn’t even think about it for a few nights in someone else’s house, let alone start faffing around pushing beds together. That’s really bloody rude of them.

If you’d had a double bedroom sitting empty and you’d made a point of putting them in a twin for some weird reason - or you’d put a single person in a double bed and put the couple in a twin - that would be different and I’d think you were being a bit odd. But even then I wouldn’t say anything! And the arrangement you had was totally normal. Your friends are complete twats for even mentioning it.

It's absolutely ridiculous to ask to push the beds together when they've been together for 30 years. It's just one night. What a fuss over nothing.

Separate bedrooms would be my preference!

Oh, you're living the dream!

That's pathetic, you should have told them no.

I would love twin beds but if by any chance we go away and it's twin beds OH kicks up a fuss until we get moved to a double. He can't explain why, just says a double is a proper bed.