Learn The Fine Art Of Compromise

Your partner can be wonderful in all other aspects of your life, but as anyone who's ever had the pleasure of sleeping with a heavy snorer or serial toss-and-turner knows, they can be murder on your REM cycle. If your partner is on a different sleep schedule than you are, that can also cause issues, as they may wake you up when they are coming to bed or getting up, hours ahead of you. Instead of banishing them to the couch for the rest of eternity, Dr. Arand says you should try working out a sleep compromise: If you go to bed early and they go to bed late, learn to meet in the middle so that both of you shift your bedtime an hour or so.

If snoring is the problem, get thee to a doctor, stat — there's no amount of nose plugging, sleep strips, or violent poking that's going to get it to stop, so for your sanity, talk to the pros. If tossing and turning is the problem, Dr. Arand suggests trying one of the joined beds that have separated mattresses — it looks and works like a shared bed, but the mattresses are separate so you won't be disturbed by constant nocturnal movement.