The late great comedian Phyllis Diller famously said, “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”

While many couples tend to do just that, recent data showed that might be a bad idea — not just for your relationship, but for health reasons, too.

Arguments that happen near bedtime can mess with couples’ sleep cycles, which can increase stress hormones, not to mention its effects the following day.

Most adults have a bed partner and nearly 90% of couples share a bed, at least occasionally, according to Amerisleep.com . So if you break up the 24 hours in a day, you spend eight (hopefully) hours with that person, which is a pretty significant amount of a couple’s time together.

Given that relationship dynamics between co-sleepers are associated with sleep outcomes, disrupting that could po

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