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Also, OP, "intimacy" is not the same thing as "sex." They could have plenty of "intimacy" without sex, and maybe they have sex "elsewhere."
Either way ... this is ... not something I would choose. It would be fun a few times a year.
I knew a couple with four children that lived in a one room cabin in the mountains of northern New Mexico for several years while starting and raising their family. Real back-to-the-land hippie types.
The husband told me none of their children were conceived indoors. They had a bed , crib, and bunkbed, though.
My kids each have their own room and their own bed. In theory, each kid sleeps in their room and we sleep in our room.
What actually happens every night? We all fall asleep together in my son's room. *shrug* Some families just sleep better together. We certainly do. I sleep better on the floor in my son's room with the whole family in there than I sleep in my own bed. Can't explain it.
I once helped arrange an international convention of scientists. They would fill out forms to request accommodations, and mail those forms to us. There were spaces on the form for how many rooms, how many adults, how many children, etc. One form, with 2 adults and several children, put "1" for the number of rooms, but marked out the word "rooms" and wrote "bed". I forgot what country they were from. It was a long time ago. It was for about 4 days.
It wasn't all that long ago that entire families slept together in one room, often even just one bed, so its not like it doesn't work but its not for me. I don't mind my kid coming into bed with us if she has a bad dream but I don't want it being a regular thing, whereas friends of mine have both kids in their kingsize bed with them and it works for them.
We have 3 kids, 3, 6, and 8. We co-slept with all of them and still do with the 3 year old. The 2 older kids share a bedroom with 2 twin beds.
Co-sleeping was NEVER the plan. How it became the plan was that my husband and I realized that we were getting better sleep by co-sleeping. We were no longer being woken up by the kids in the middle of the night.
We did always plan for the kids to share a room until one of them (the oldest) choose to opt out for more privacy.
We did try to transition the youngest when she turned 3 but she woke up every night around 2 am and would make it onto our bed which we didn't mind. But since our 2 bedrooms were on different stories and on the opposite ends of our house, we thought it was safer that she didn't make the long trip (specifically the stairs) each night while she was hazy.
We'll try again when she is 4 but we're in no rush.
It seems to me that the father of the household has absolutely no balls.
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