Hollywood would have us believe your first instinct is to smile indulgently and gently drape an expensive cashmere throw over their supine form. I mean the ordinary sort of awakening and with it the need – the greed – for sleep.Īnd lo, there arises a competitive exhaustion that supplants all other emotions and fills you with murderous resentment at the sight of your other half nodding off on the sofa. I don’t mean the protectiveness or the extraordinary quasi-spiritual awakening. ![]() Hand on heart, something happens once you have a baby. If I’m coming across as unnecessarily aggy, then you must be young. In this instance, two little words will do it: reckless endangerment. How dare he potentially rob his children of a father by prioritising a long lie-in over a long life? As for the symphonic rasping and wheezing sound effects, I have just three little words: insult to injury.Īccording to experts at King’s College London, who run ZOE Predict, the largest ongoing nutritional research programme in the world, an extra 90 minutes in bed is enough to disrupt an individual’s internal body clock. That means that my husband’s extra shut-eye isn’t just annoying and selfish. Sleep, already a marital battleground (aka the Theatre of Snore) has just been weaponised further with research, actual scientific research, revealing that having different sleep patterns from weekdays to weekends can increase gut bacteria linked with obesity, heart attacks and strokes. ![]() Who knew? Apart from every couple on the planet, that is? Having a cheeky lie-in on a Saturday can kill you.
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