--- title: Marriage Satisfaction Plays Role in Sleep description: Married couples are more likely to sleep in sync when a wife is more satisfied with her marriage, researchers have found. canonical: https://time.com/2836244/sleep-wife-satisfaction-marriage/ author: Stephanie Burnett article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-06T05:35:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:15:26.921Z article:section: Health og:title: Marriage Satisfaction Plays Role in Sleep og:description: Married couples are more likely to sleep in sync when a wife is more satisfied with her marriage, researchers have found. og:url: https://time.com/2836244/sleep-wife-satisfaction-marriage/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Marriage Satisfaction Plays Role in Sleep twitter:description: Married couples are more likely to sleep in sync when a wife is more satisfied with her marriage, researchers have found. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Husbands, If You Want a Good Night's Sleep Make Sure Your Wife Is Happy by [Stephanie Burnett](https://time.com/author/stephanie-burnett/) ## Stephanie Burnett Jun 6, 2014 5:35 AM UTC by [Stephanie Burnett](https://time.com/author/stephanie-burnett/) ## Stephanie Burnett Jun 6, 2014 5:35 AM UTC A happier wife may bring better sleep for husbands. According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, married couples are [more likely](http://www.eurekalert.org/pub%5Freleases/2014-06/aaos-csi060514.php) to sleep in sync when a wife is more satisfied with her marriage. The study indicates that partners who sleep in the same bed are awake, or asleep, at the same time for 75 percent of the time – but it also suggests that the percentage is higher if the wife has a higher level of marital satisfaction. “Most of what is known about sleep comes from studying it at the individual level; however, for most adults, sleep is a shared behavior between bed partners,” said Heather Gunn, lead author of the study. “This suggests that our sleep patterns are regulated not only by when we sleep, but also by with whom we sleep.” \[[_American Academy of Sleep Medicine_](http://www.eurekalert.org/pub%5Freleases/2014-06/aaos-csi060514.php)_\]_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2836244/sleep-wife-satisfaction-marriage/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2836244/sleep-wife-satisfaction-marriage/"},"headline":"Husbands, If You Want a Good Night's Sleep Make Sure Your Wife Is Happy","datePublished":"2014-06-06T05:35:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:15:26.921Z","description":"A new study finds that sleep-wake schedules are more synchronized when a wife is content with her marriage, indicating that sleep patterns are a shared behavior between partners.","url":"https://time.com/2836244/sleep-wife-satisfaction-marriage/","keywords":["Sex/Relationships","Marriage","Sleep","Research","health"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Stephanie Burnett","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/stephanie-burnett/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/sexrelationships/","name":"Sex/Relationships"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2836244/sleep-wife-satisfaction-marriage/","name":"Husbands, If You Want a Good Night's Sleep Make Sure Your Wife Is Happy"}}]}] ```