Cuddling and snuggling are sure signs of a happy couple. But what does it mean if you prefer opposite sides of the bed -- or even a ton of space? A visual guide to love between sheets.

You sleep. You dream. You make love. You cuddle. What more can be said about sharing a bed? Well as it turns out, quite a lot. Psychiatrist Samuel Dunkell, M.D., author of Good-bye Insomnia, Hello Sleep, has been analyzing the body language of sleep for more than 25 years and believes that sleep positions can reveal certain truths about you and your marriage. As the years pass, our sleep positions may change and evolve, but they continue to take our emotional pulse. How do you and your husband sleep? Let us count the ways.
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So close, so safe, this is the most common sleep position for the first three to five years of marriage. "Usually, the man is the embracer," says psychiatrist Samuel Dunkell, M.D., author of Good-bye Insomnia, Hello Sleep, who has been analyzing the body language of sleep for more than 25 years. "When a woman assumes the posterior position, it may indicate she is the more giving partner or that he needs special nurturing." Semifetal, genitals against buttocks, the Spoon provides both of you with maximum physical closeness, though it's not necessarily erotic."Many couples simply find the Spoon a comforting, safe cocoon," explains Shirley P. Glass, Ph.D., a psychologist and marital therapist in Baltimore. 
During early marriage, couples tend to maintain the spoon position for much of the night, mirroring each other. "When one person turns, the other follows suit, so that the spoon position is resumed on the opposite side," says Dr. Dunkell. But just because you've been married a while doesn't mean you have to give up this closeness. "When my husband hits the snooze alarm in the morning, it's our cue to spoon until the day can't be postponed any longer," says one woman who just celebrated her seventh wedding anniversary.

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