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Sleeping with a partner can have many benefits, including providing a sense of safety and closeness.

Not sharing a comforter with the person you share the bed with is not an unfamiliar practice.

So while partners sleep in the same bed each night, they each have their own blanket.

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This helps avoid issues with blanket hogging, and makes it easier to maintain a preferred sleep temperature.