bornwithnoname

I have always believed husbands and wife have always shared a bed. After some recent reading I have been led to believe that might not be the case. It maybe they shared a bed for martial relations, but in general they had their own rooms and beds.

Any thoughts?

Richard Stanbery

My wife cannot sleep in my bed. She says I talk and fight all night.

I dont remember any of it.

Salah

I think Roman couples had separate beds, and upper-class Roman couples had separate bedrooms.

In a lot of Asian cultures that had harems, the wives and concubines obviously only spent the night with their husbands for sexual purposes...

Aspartam

I think, the separate bed was in the past/ is nowadays common occurrence for upper class in countries of European culture.

corrocamino

One Hollywood celeb married couple with a grand estate in a scenic part of Colorado decided that separate bedrooms was not enough, so a second mansion was built alongside the first: his and hers domiciles, cheek by jowl.

Edratman

Seperate bed rooms is not historically accurate. The vast majority of people throughout history lived in one or two room homes.

Probably the wealthy had more options.

vera

In the East the man and woman had different sectors of the house. I was told it was the custom in Korea, as much as in China.

Cicero

In ancient Greece I believe that husband and wife had seperate bedrooms and, if they could afford it, seperate floors of the house, with the wife upstairs. I remember an Athenian scandal where the wife had a lover and the husband killed the wife and/or lover and he was put on trial.. .not for the murders, but for having allowed his wife to pull off the affair!

Lady_Cassandra

I've heard this before as well but only in regards to the wealthy.

vera

Well, we can say that the poor everywhere throughout history did not even have beds, most probably, and for those living in a one-room shack the whole question is irrelevant.

So it obviously pertains to those who could afford the choice of having more than one bed/room for the man and the woman of the house. The middle class and up.