When sleeping with a partner, do you prefer sleeping on the right or left side of the bed?

For those of you that are married or in relationships, or, perhaps have a special someone you occasionally spend the night with (hey, could be a sister or brother!), do you both have a side of the bed you typically sleep on?

Keep in mind, when we’re asking this question we’re asking it as if you were looking straight on at the bed from the foot of it, NOT as if you were in the bed.

So, is your side the right side? The left side? Tell us in the poll below. Thanks!

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Comments

30 Comments

Larry Lee
3 years ago

It does not really matter to me which side of the bed I sleep on, but I always sleep on my left side regardless. Sooooo, if I am on the left side of the bed lying on my left side, and I can convince my wife to sleep on her right side, then we can talk. However, in our RV the bathroom is on the left side of the bed so that is her side and I have to sleep with my back to her. Left side down sleeping helps prevent gastric reflux.

Chuck Gates
3 years ago

My wife always wants to sleep closes to the bathroom

Tom
3 years ago

RV has twins, so question is mute.

Larry M.
3 years ago

When we are home I sleep on the left side , when we are in the rv I sleep on the right side, that puts her nearest the bathroom.

Bob P
3 years ago
Reply to  Larry M.

That’s my answer, which ever side is closest to the bathroom is DW’s as I very seldom get up in the middle of the night.

JOHN R. WILKINS
3 years ago

Whether in the RV or at home I sleep on the right side. Is there any other way? That’s the rules! So says the wife.

Bob M
3 years ago

Same for me.

Larry
3 years ago

It depends where the dog decides to sleep that night.

Dan
3 years ago
Reply to  Larry

Same here. That’s just one of many decisions our dog made in our lives. She passed away last December and being our bed hog dog is just one of many things we miss every day.

Caren
3 years ago

Closest to the bathroom is my side and that is the right side, in the MoHo and our condo.

Robert
3 years ago
Reply to  Caren

EXACTLY!!!

Robert
3 years ago
Reply to  Robert

EXACTLY!!!

Tom H.
3 years ago

For me it depends on the relationship of the bed to the door, i.e., I always sleep closest to the door.

Ed K
3 years ago

Right side, last time I slept on the Left, my wife got pregnant. Haven’t made that mistake again.

Tommy Molnar
3 years ago
Reply to  Ed K

Hahahahahaa!

Rich
3 years ago

my wife has always slept to my left on the right side of the bed.

Primo Rudy's Roadhouse
3 years ago

preference? It’s just the way it is for over 25 years

Bob
3 years ago

Going on 57 yrs of marriage, I have always slept on the right side and my wife on the left.

Gene Bjerke
3 years ago

For a long time I slept on the left side at home and the right side in the RV. When we changed bedrooms at home I moved to the right side. It all depends on where I can put the CPAP.

Paul B.
3 years ago

Side nearest the door. Security and protection for my sweetheart.

Herman
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B.

Right on!

Neal Davis
3 years ago

I voted “right side,” but I don’t care. If “either” had been an option, then I would have picked it.

George C
3 years ago

I sleep on the left side, home or RV. As a wise man once told me, “The woman is always right”.

Louise
3 years ago

We switch sides when in our RV as the right side is slightly longer and he is taller.

Parker
3 years ago

We base that decision on the room/situation.

Jim Johnson
3 years ago

…my choice is assuming the other side of the bed isn’t easier for my spouse to enter/exit the bed.

Michael Galvin
3 years ago

Men usually sleep on the left. Question would have revealed more had it included gender.

Todd Hartman
3 years ago

Whichever side is left after the wife chooses. Right side at home, left side in RV, and who normally the side closer to window in a hotel.

Gary W.
3 years ago

Another failed poll. Should have had a “Depends on the situation” selection.

bobby
3 years ago

actually if im honest, the side that is closer to either the door or the toilet.