Couples in twin beds?

[Sandalison]

I just watched an episode of Fawlty Towers where Basil and Sybil are in twin beds. Is that part of the comedy that they’re a weird couple, or was this quite usual in the 60s? Do some couples sleep like this now?
Have to say, it appeals to me, I like my own space!

We had them for 20 years - zipped and linked but two separate duvets and mattresses. My parents in the 50s and 60s and 70s etc had two separated single beds too. it is easier to sleep that way. It does not mean you don't have sex.

Honestly double bed 2 single quilt was a game changer .Each have our own tog rated quilt we prefer and no draft down the middle.

Separate rooms here as well, genuinely don't know how couples manage to sleep in the same room or bed ... surely you go to bed/get up at different times, need the bathroom, like window open/closed, different weight of duvet etc. Plus the snoring/grunting/restless legs issues .... there is nothing nicer than retreating to my own, peaceful bedroom .

My parents married in 1954 and had a double bed but I remember, as a child, going into a friend's parents room and being surprised to see single beds. I told my mum and she pulled a face. I'd say not all that common but not unheard of.

I imagine Sybil Fawlty would prefer twin beds. She wouldn't want her hair getting messed up.

I'd be tempted to do that now but it would mean DH is too far away from me to poke if he's snoring too much. We've taken the simpler approach of separate rooms!!

Nothing better than snuggling up with my husband and falling asleep together

That's all very well if it's quiet. My husband's CPAP machine is like a 747 in reverse thrust. No chance of snuggling up.

Both sets of GP’s slept in separate rooms because of snoring. I totally understand now.

@Remxhah126

In Germany two single mattresses in their own slots on a very large base used to be common

That's what we have! I like being close to OH but I also like my on duvet that no one can steal and a softer mattress than OH who likes sleeping on something akin to a rock.

My grandparents always had twin beds. Apparently it was because my grandmother was 5' tall and very slightly built and my grandfather was a 6'2" tall ex rugby prop. They tried a double bed just after they were married and every time he rolled over she was dragged along by gravity.

Isn’t there a really uncomfortable seam/gap down the middle then? I love sleeping with my DH.

In the early ‘70’s I had a school friend whose parents had twin beds.
I remember being fascinated as I had only seen this arrangement in films.

I'd love twin houses!

I think that was part of their relationship in that show. I don't think most people sleep separately in real life. I think I've slept in the goats room about 3 times in the 17 years we've been together!

SPARE room! We don't have goats and if they did they wouldn't have their own room!
(Not that they'd share with us of course).
I'll go now... 😳

DH asked what I'm laughing at and now he's looking at me like

Oh I’ve just mentioned this to DH and we’ve both agreed this is the way to go for us if we had the space, a small double each he can have a sheet on his with his pillows propped up and I’ll have my fleecy duvets, blankets all nice and cosy. He complains when my extra duvet moves over to his side in the night

I’ve recently rewatched Downton Abbey: there is a scene in one of the early series where Mary admonishes her parents for routinely sharing a bed as the ‘smart’ arrangement is separate beds. Lord Grantham has his own room for appearances’ sake and in the event of a row

Good to read this and realise that OH and I aren't so unusual sleeping in separate rooms!

I really like the twin house idea. Id like a shared garden, dining room and tv room but the rest I'd like for me. A bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, study/nook/hobby room.

Sod that, seperate bedrooms is the future imo. Wouldn't have it any other way me

Same here!

Separate rooms here too since the DCs were born.
I'm sweaty and he is snorey and restless of leg.
Also, smallest DS likes to sneak in with me and snuggle up to make me extra sweaty.

DH asked what I'm laughing at and now he's looking at me like

This - and I need my inhaler - gotta love an autocorrect

My parents (married in 69) always had a double, as did dads parents, but my maternal grandparents had twin beds.

@ChippyChickenChips your dhs CPAP doesn't need to be that noisy. DHs new one is pretty much silent, and even his previous one was quieter than the central heating pump sound

@harrietm1987 - I mean, we couldn't sleep wrapped around each other, but then we never did. We normally snuggle briefly and then sort of roll apart to sleep under our own duvets, but we sometimes hold hands as we drift off.