The same study found that a man's inability to fall asleep at night does not have the same effect, but if the female half of the relationship has problems sleeping there follows more 'negative interactions' with their partner the following day, and fewer positive ones. But the husbands' sleep had no effect on the quality of the marriage.
Dr Wendy Troxel, one of the researchers involved in the new study, said "We found that wive's sleep problems affect her own and her spouses marital functioning the following day, and these effects were independent of depressive symptoms.
"Specifically, wives who took longer to fall asleep the night before reported poorer marital functioning the next day, and so did their husbands."
The study helped prove the relationship between nightly sleep and the next day's marital interactions to be stronger than the association between daily marital interactions and subsequent sleep. Now that scientists understand the workings of the subconscious mind, we now understand that minor 'niggles' and irritations are stored deep down in the subconscious mind and each irritation acts a single piece of a large jigsaw puzzle, waiting silently until all the pieces are collected to make the complete picture.
Most people do not complete the full picture, and the marriage stays intact. However, the subconscious mind also can be responsible for silently triggering the start of a break up, such as when a partner's irritating habit or behaviour silently triggers a defensive mechanism in the other partners mind. Secret, hidden memories such as bullying, pure hatred for another person, or simply a behaviour, attitude or action of another, can be triggered by an unconscious recognition in one partner's mind, associating that particular attitude to a subconsciously hated, and forgotten, individual.
The affected partner starts to distance themselves and grow apart from the other, without realising either what's happening, the recognition of their behaviour, or the subconsciously hidden association with a long forgotten person or behaviour. It is a known fact, of course, that a lack of sleep can result in adverse physical and mental attitudes and behaviour, only now are we becoming aware that our subconscious mind is also irritated by a lack of sleep, and is equally capable of wrecking lives and relationships as much as the conscious mind..
Strangely enough though, the experiment reported from husbands more positive interactions from wives were often followed by them getting less sleep the next night. The researchers cannot establish the reason for this.
The experiment involved 32 couples with an average age of 32, who were free of medical disorders including sleep and psychiatric cases. The study involved recording the amount of time they took to get to sleep and the number of times they woke in the night for a period of ten nights.
Each day, wives were then asked to report positive emotions such as feeling supported or valued by their spouse, or, otherwise, negative reactions including criticism or feeling ignored.
Dr Troxell, professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, America, found in the previous study that the presence of a husband and partner meant women slept better.
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