{"id":59609,"date":"2018-06-09T10:06:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/?p=59609"},"modified":"2020-06-09T07:57:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T07:57:55","slug":"adults-sleeping-stuffed-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/adults-sleeping-stuffed-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"ADULTS SLEEPING WITH A FLUFFY FRIEND"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you still sleep with a plush toy? Maybe it\u2019s a stuffed animal, or a teddy bear, or even a soft blanket. \u00a0If you answered yes, you\u2019re not alone!\u00a0 Last year, Best Mattress Brand surveyed over 2,000 Americans about their sleeping habits. Survey results<\/a> showed that sixteen percent of millennials sleep with a sentimental nighttime item, compared to just 8 percent of Gen Xers and only 2 percent of baby boomers. For millennials and Gen Xers, their most common nighttime item is a stuffed animal.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one thing to sleep with a plush friend to provide comfort when nobody else is around, but what about when you\u2019re in a relationship? \u00a0Do you tell your significant other or just let them figure it out on their own?\u00a0 Are you embarrassed or ashamed? Are you frightened that you may have to hide your fluffy friend for the evening when a human pal comes over?<\/p>\n

Chances are, if you have a non-creepy reason for sleeping with a stuffed animal, your significant other shouldn’t mind.\u00a0 The Best Mattress Brand survey indicated that 14 percent of millennials admitted their significant other sleeps with a favorite night time companion (most commonly a stuffed animal)! According to Stuart Brown, MD<\/a>, the habit of sleeping with a stuffed animal as an adult is well within the range of normal.\u00a0 It\u2019s comforting and sometimes helps the snuggler sleep better when they hold onto a cuddly childhood pal that reminds them of a simpler time.<\/p>\n

A married friend of mine living in Brooklyn told me that when she asked her husband whether he cared that she slept with a plush Simba from Disney\u2019s The Lion King, he responded, \u201cWhy would I give a shit if you slept with Simba?!\u201d She said that Simba eventually moved to the nightstand because the bed got too crowded. And even though she sometimes misses Simba, she doesn\u2019t think she will ever start sleeping with him regularly again. Another married friend that sleeps with her stuffed animal after a few years of marriage said, \u201cIt\u2019s not a factor\u2026just something that I always did and continue to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

When I asked a third friend living in Brooklyn, now in his early thirties about whether he has ever been ashamed about the worn teddy bear that he still sleeps with, he explained, \u201cI\u2019m very open about it, I\u2019m not embarrassed, I never hide him and I don\u2019t care what girls think.\u201d He continued to say, \u201cI\u2019ve had him my whole life. His use has changed over time.\u00a0 He\u2019s actually very good for my neck now\u2026but if a girl said, it\u2019s either me or the stuffed animal, then my teddy is going in a box\u2026but that would be a really mean girl.”<\/p>\n

According to Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D.<\/a>, a Columbia University-educated clinical psychologist, if you don\u2019t have a stuffed animal already, it\u2019s not too late. Even with a new one, the soothing benefits remain. So, if embarrassment is holding you back from sleeping with your cuddly toy as an adult (or getting a new one), just tell your date all the benefits that sleeping with a stuffed animal brings to adults. Dr. Shefali says that stuffed animals are \u201csymbolic of childhood, a time where we felt special and secure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Do you still sleep with a plush toy? Maybe it\u2019s a stuffed animal, or a teddy bear, or even a soft blanket. \u00a0If you answered yes, you\u2019re not alone!\u00a0 Last year, Best Mattress Brand surveyed over 2,000 Americans about their sleeping habits. Survey results showed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":59611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"is it weird if my significant other sleeps with a stuffed animal","_seopress_titles_desc":"Many adults still sleep with a stuffed animal, even in married couples. Chances are, if you have a non-creepy reason for sleeping with a stuffed animal, your significant other shouldn't mind.\u00a0Doctors report that it's normal, comforting and reminds adults of a simpler time.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59609"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69730,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59609\/revisions\/69730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}