Couple doesn't sleep on 'regular' side of the bed, sparks outrage

But a relationship expert gave it the green light and said it "makes their life a lot more flexible."..

But Pepper Schwartz, a relationship expert and sociology professor, told Insider this week that the practice "sounds great," and that the intense reaction speaks more to our attachments to routine than anything peculiar with the couple's lifestyle...

Murphy told Insider that they have slept this way their whole relationship, and there's no rhyme or reason to when they switch though they've never stayed on the same side for longer than a week..

"I think that they're freed from a kind of possessiveness about order that most of us have, and it makes their life a lot more flexible," she said.. Schwartz explained that humans are "creatures of habit," and the idea that someone doesn't have a habit is "somewhere between a curiosity and terrifying to people."..

"The fact that these people have never decided that, 'OK, this is a way we order our lives together,' makes people nervous because it kind of questions the whole way everybody creates a couple life," Schwartz said...

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