The Honeymoon Hug – “When you’re so deeply enamoured you wish you could fuse, or just after lovemaking”.
The Spoon – This position provides both of you with maximum physical closeness and is the most common sleep position for the first three to five years of a long term relationship.
Sweetheart’s Cradle- A nurturing position when you are “literally being brought in under the wing”.
Loosely Tethered – Five or so years into marriage,most of couples feel secure enough to allow a bit more space and comfort into their bridal bed. The emotional current is sustained by a touching hand, knee or foot.
Leg Hug – Creates physical contact indirectly. Such casual contact could imply that the couple are ambivalent about expressing affection or intentionally withholding it, maybe after a fight. It may also speak of healthy camaraderie.
Zen Style – This position is usually pre-empted by buying a larger beds to accommodate one or both partners’ need for space. “Touching buttocks allows for large-surface contact and private connection, but without clinging. “Like two circles, separate but overlapping, this position is a perfect definition of interdependence.”
The Cliff Hanger – This retreating may be a rejection or it could be the partner just needs a good nights sleep. Maybe the partner who creates the distance is finally comfortable enough to admit they’d rather get a good night’s sleep away from you than cuddle up together, listening to you snore. The experts however, do recommend a “heart-to-heart to find out what’s really going on.”
The Crab – You can tell this position is trouble just by looking at it. “As if to escape from each other or as if you’re travelling in different directions.” This position may be “acting out an unacknowledged need to pull away from each other, from the marriage”.
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