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One Bad Night Changes Everything
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If you asked me to name the single fastest accelerant of marital conflict, the one thing that turns a manageable disagreement into something nuclear, I wouldn't say money or sex or children. I'd say sleep. Specifically, the absence of it. This isn't intuition. It's data. And once you see it, you ca...
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- One night of four-hour sleep produces elevated cortisol reactivity during the next day's couple conflicts
- Sleep quality and marital quality are bidirectionally linked: fixing one improves the other
- Perimenopausal night sweats fragment sleep architecture, depleting the prefrontal cortex resources needed for empathy and patience
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