If you are also troubled by your partner's snoring or his strange sleeping habits, then take a 'sleep divorce' from him. Don't worry, this divorce does not break relationships, but makes them stronger. Neha's married life is going on well. There is no discord, no fight. Still, Neha does not sleep with her husband at night but sleeps in a separate room. One day, a friend who came to her house was surprised and asked the reason for this, because she thought that there was a fight. But Neha explained smilingly, “We did not have any fight, we just had a 'sleep divorce'.” Neha's friend was hearing this term for the first time.

The word divorce conjures up images of two people getting separated, but there is no such thing in 'sleep divorce'. Sleeping separately simply means that your sleep needs do not match your partner's. There is nothing weird about it in relationships and it is normal. In fact, Neha sleeps in a different room from her husband just so that she can sleep peacefully at night. This concept of sleeping in a separate bed or a separate room away from the husband is called 'sleep divorce'.

Sumit, a resident of Bhopal, is an IT professional. He was not able to sleep at night due to his wife's continuous snoring, due to which his health was deteriorating. In this regard, he contacted a psychiatrist and requested him to give him medicines to sleep peacefully at night, but the psychiatrist advised him to have a sleep divorce. Sumit talked to his wife and started sleeping in a separate room. Today he has overcome this problem.

It is difficult to say exactly when the term sleep divorce was used for the first time. But this term can be read in journals and magazines since 2013. This term has also emerged rapidly in many recent research related to good sleep and health. Many experts link good health with good sleep. They believe that sleep divorce not only strengthens relationships but also improves health.