My wife and I sleep in the same bed but we're both having such violent grief dreams and night terrors since her brother died that we keep waking each other up, thrashing and crying out. We're exhausted and raw, and even though we're going through the same loss, our bodies won't let us rest together anymore.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared loss creates competing somatic needs that make fundamental intimacies like sleep become sources of mutual disturbance.
“Where Are You with The physical experience of grief?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.