King vs. Queen?
Both of my siblings have bought king-sized mattresses, since having kids, and have told me that I should save money and go ahead and buy a king-sized mattress from the start, because I will want one when Rachel and I have children, anyway. I’ve told them both that I had to talk Rachel into letting us buy a queen instead of a full.
This article, Word to the Wise: King vs. Queen? suggests the following:
Going to bed angry in a Queen size bed allows a couple to ‘accidentally’ find the other’s hand or some part of their body’a leg or arm, whereby making up can be done with once squeeze of the hand. More talking may need to be done later, but the anger part is over and everyone is at peace by morning.
That won’t happen in a King size bed unless someone signs a petition or waves a flag professing guilt, “I’m sorry, can I visit your side of the bed now.”
Of course, maybe if we went down to a full, then the kids couldn’t sleep between us! :-)
November 6th, 2006 at 9:45 am
A little clarification: Our kids are not ever allowed to sleep in our bed (Jeremy’s rule). I go to their beds if they are occationally needing some extra comfort. I do many times disagree with Jeremy’s rule during a night time crisis. However, I am sometimes afraid he will smoosh them, and we always sleep much sounder without them. Adah has chosen on her own to give up her crib and sleep in a big bed. She never gets out of the bed when I leave the room. She must think there are invisible bars around her bed because she has always slept in her crib. The transition was so much easier for her than for Ben who slept in our bed quite a bit.
Upon further thought, a queen should be sufficient for you and Rachel since you are smaller than us. Jeremy is so tall he sometimes sleeps diagonal in bed. You can change your minds in 10 years.
The whole resolving fights thing is irrelavent to the size of the bed. However, we don’t wake up in the middle of the night anymore grumpily arguing over who is hogging all the room now that we have a king. By the way it was always Jeremy who was hogging all the room!