Edwina Bartholomew

Sunrise host Edwina Bartholomew has revealed she sleeps in a separate bed to her husband – and it hasn't affected their sex life.

I love their company but I don’t love the sound of someone else’s screaming child,” she wrote. “I think it’s a brilliant idea. In addition to this, she said she had witnessed a shift in expectations of couples and the stigma of sleeping apart. I would sleep overnight with the baby in my room and then he would wake up early to take over. “A good night’s sleep will make you far less irritable, far more empathetic and in a much better mindset to be in a relationship,” she said. “When we had kids, it continued.

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Edwina Bartholomew has shared the sleeping arrangement she and husband Neil Varcoe have had for seven years - separate bedrooms.

My husband and I sleep in separate rooms and have been for 12 years. “Fought in the same bed with an insomniac for 35 years! “My husband and I had separate rooms/beds. You don’t have to sleep in the same bed with someone to love them,” added another. One is set up for my husband with his gym gear and other ‘manly’ stuff.” He or I always started out with a cuddle and chat in one bed and then went our separate ways.

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He is a bed-maker. I would sleep overnight with the baby in my room and then he would wake up early to take over. His is always neat. “My room is always messy. “When we had kids, it continued. “When I would get up for work, he would struggle to get back to sleep, so we decided to trial separate rooms,” she wrote in a column for The Courier Mail.