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The challenges of sharing a couple bed

by Paul C. Rosenblatt, Ph.D., Morse–Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, prosenbl@umn.edu

An important way in which the family field benefits society is that our research and theory can illuminate everyday taken-for-granted relationship life in ways that enrich, empower, educate, and perhaps entertain the general public. Take couple bed-sharing. Tens of millions of adult couples in the United States share a bed, but until recently not much was written about it in the academic literature or the popular press.

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