Snoring and Your Marriage
Health conditions can often lead to problems in a marriage that can be addressed in marriage counseling. One of the most common health concerns that can wreak havoc on even a healthy marriage is the simple act of snoring.
Many studies have shown that prolonged snoring often leads to one person abandoning the bedroom and sleeping somewhere else, in the couch or a spare bedroom, for instance. One woman even professed to staying at a local motel when she needed a good night’s sleep that simply wasn’t possible in the small apartment she shared with her husband!
Severe and prolonged snoring is actually symptomatic of larger issues. As it relates to marriage health, snoring can cause sleep deprivation, which invariably and negatively affects a couple’s sexual relationship. Sleep deprivation causes irritability, which then leads to arguments and discord in the marriage.
If you add up the scenario of constant arguments, separate sleeping arrangements and continued irritability, there will of course be a negative affect on the marriage as a whole. The entire issue of habitually using separate bedrooms results in a drastic reduction in physical relationships and sexual intimacy.
If you are concerned that your spouse’s snoring is caused by and causes other health concerns, you should be.
It has been found that, for men who snore, there are higher risks of erectile dysfunctions, heightened blood pressure, and several different cardiac problems and they are all related to prolonged snoring and sleep apnea. All of these are serious health risks that need to be discussed with your physician.
If snoring is a concern in your marriage, consider discussing it with your spouse and your doctor to help get to the bottom of the physical factors. Your marriage counselor can assist you with dealing with snoring’s affect on your marriage.
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Snoring can be caused or aggravated by any condition that narrows throat passages, disturbing the air flow.The familiar sounds of snoring originate from vibrations in the tissues of the throat.