Why Is Sleep Important?

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Poor sleep can affect your mood, health, sex life, and how you feel about your marriage.

Before considering a divorce, ask yourself whether exhaustion is influencing how you view your relationship.

A sleep study can help uncover medical issues that may be disrupting your sleep or your partner’s.

If you sleep separately, make time for cuddling, sex, and meaningful conversations to connect while awake.

Part of being a family lawyer is knowing how to divorce a couple. Meaning, how to extricate two people from a legal union so they can stand on their own two feet as they move forward independently and, if applicable, as co-parents afterward. This is the obvious part of what I do. The other, less obvious role I have is figuring out whether someone who ends up on a call with me actually needs me for a dissolution.

I suspect I’m dealing with the latter situation when someone tells me they aren’t sleeping, they’re up all night because their partner’s waking or keeping them up, and that it’s negatively affecting their marriage in every way imaginable: they’re irritable, resentful, experiencing weight gain, and a slew of other health problems. They’re also too tired to have sex, so they’ve stopped or practically stopped. But, and this is key, they also tell me they love their spouse and the life they’ve built together and aren’t sure if they want to take such a hard approach, at least just yet.

I’m not a medical doctor, but I’ve been married twice, this time to my forever partner, so I recognize how important........

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