A study shows that wives have trouble sleeping could ruin the marriage, but a man's inability to fall asleep at night does not have the same effect.
It found that wives who have difficulty sleeping had more "negative interactions" with their partner the following day.
The study involved 32 couples with an average age of 32, who were free of sleep, psychiatric or medical disorders.
The amount of time they took to get to sleep and the number of times they woke in the night was measured for ten nights.
Each day, they were then asked to report positive emotions or negative reactions.

Dr Wendy Troxel, one of the researchers, said: "We found that wives' sleep problems affect her own and her spouse's marital functioning the next day."
Dr Wendy found in a previous study that women who are happy in their marriage report fewer sleep disturbances.


根据《每日邮报》6月14日报道：一项调查显示，妻子睡眠存在问题可能会毁坏婚姻，而丈夫夜间失眠则不会造成相同的影响。

调查发现，夜里妻子睡眠不良就会在次日与丈夫的相处中产生更多的"负作用"。

有32对平均年龄在32岁的夫妇参与了这项研究，这些人都没有睡眠、精神或是内科障碍。

研究统计了他们在十个夜晚内进入睡眠需要的时间和夜间醒来的次数。
每天，他们都会被叫去阐述自己的积极和消极情绪。
参与此项研究的温迪博士说："我们发现妻子睡眠不好会影响到次日她和丈夫之间的婚姻状况。"
温迪博士在其之前的研究中发现婚姻生活幸福的妻子，几乎没有睡眠问题。

• sleeping [´sli:piŋ] n.&a.睡着(的) (初中英语单词)
• partner [´pɑ:tnə] n.伙伴 v.同....合作 (初中英语单词)
• medical [´medikəl] a.医学的；医疗的 (初中英语单词)
• amount [ə´maunt] n.总数；数量 v.合计 (初中英语单词)
• affect [ə´fekt] vt.影响；感动；假装 (初中英语单词)
• previous [´pri:viəs] a.先，前，以前的 (初中英语单词)
• positive [´pɔzətiv] a.确定的 (高中英语单词)
• negative [´negətiv] a.否定的 n.否定词 (高中英语单词)
• inability [,inə´biliti] n.无能，无力 (英语六级单词)