And, if you’re like Jeff and I, you have the added angst of knowing that spending a lot of money on a nice mattress (that felt nice for the 10 minutes you laid on it at the store) doesn’t mean it’s going to feel amazing on your body 6 months from now. You end up laying down on mattresses in a store, trying to decide if this is where you want to spend 1/3 of your next 20 or so years. Now, I’ll insert here that shopping for mattresses can be a bit of an odd experience. We were also a little hesitant, because we already have two nice mattresses! How do we even begin to pick one that will work for both of us? As we started to research possibilities, the only ones were A.) go 1950’s style and get twin beds (um, no) or B.) get a bed that would offer us the option of having different firmness levels on each side of the bed.Īnd option B led us to a Sleep Number store. We’ve been talking about getting a new mattress for a while, but decided to wait until after we moved. Jeff sleeps with a pillow between his legs for extra support and I toss and turn regularly to find a comfy spot. So, what we have is a very-comfy-for-me, but too-soft-for-Jeff memory foam mattress that’s been relegated to the guest room and we’re sleeping on another very nice inner-spring mattress that is a compromise. (Not really, but it feels like that to me.) There is one place, though, where we’ve been stumped and where compromise hasn’t worked… We’re actually pretty good at finding happy mediums. In almost 19 years of marriage, Jeff and I have been able to find a lot of common ground.

Sleep number in balance contour pillow