Did He Put a Ring On It?

With summer right around a corner, marriage deteriorate is strictly on us. And Little Patch-Douglaston Patch wants to get in on all of that romance.

Recently engaged? Counting down a days to a large impetus down a aisle? We’re looking for couples in Little Neck and Douglaston to form in an arriving array of summer marriage announcements. 

So far, some of a lovebirds we’ve oral with have common fantastic adore stories with us that we are certain you’ll suffer reading about. (Don’t worry, we won’t have to wait long.)

And with so many beautiful venues right here in a neighborhood, it’s no consternation that many bride-and-grooms-to-be are gripping things local, creation a many of some of their favorite restaurants and other businesses. 

But even if you’re formulation a end event on a other side of a map or an insinuate event during city hall, we wish to hear from you.

Love in all of a sundry forms deserves to be shared. No matching eyebrow portraits necessary.

Interested couples should hit lori.gross@patch.com and write “Weddings” in a theme line. Please embody your names, hit information and designed marriage date (if we have one). Oh, and congratulations!

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Sharing a Bed is Good For Your Health

By Andrea Petersen

Snoring, tossing and branch and stolen sheets can take a intrigue out of sleeping with your spouse. Then there are a fights over a room temperature, bedtimes, TV or no TV—not to discuss nightly Tweeting and Facebook posting. Several studies uncover that people pierce some-more when they share a bed. (About one-third of movements during nap are shared.) Women, in particular, have some-more incongruous sleep, according to one study.

And women whose partners have nap apnea are during most larger risk for insomnia. These somnolent stressors expostulate some people to a couch: About 23% of people vital with a partner contend they nap in apart beds, according to a National Sleep Foundation’s 2005 Sleep in America poll, that surveyed 1,506 adults.

But increasingly, nap investigate suggests that there are transparent health advantages to sleeping in a same bed as your partner – maybe obscure a turn of highlight hormones, and augmenting levels of oxytocin, a supposed “love hormone.”

And nap experts have begun to advise there are ways to residence these couple-sleep problems—without resorting to apart bedrooms.

Among a strategies, psychologists are involving partners some-more in a diagnosis and diagnosis of nap disorders. In a examination paper in a stream emanate of Sleep Medicine Review, Colleen E. Carney, Associate Professor during Ryerson University in Toronto and and colleagues introduce integrating couples therapy techniques into cognitive behavioral diagnosis for insomnia for those patients whose attribute issues are fueling their nap problems.

Partners also are being enlisted to assistance with treatment.

Patients with insomnia, for example, mostly turn unhealthily spooky with their sleep. Partners can make things worse by “always checking in,” says Dr. Carney. “Everything is sleep, sleep, sleep. We tell a partners, ‘don’t be seeking all a time.’”

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Ask questions of researchers about nap habits and good nap strategies.

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