I learned that my coworker was a lesbian three times before it stuck. What made it stick was during a talk she was having about LGBT issues, where she referenced how obviously gay she looks. I guess the short hair with bright dye was a tell-tale sign to other people. I just enjoy chatting with her, and that sort of thing just didn’t come up very often.

Separate blankets are a must! My wife somehow rotates the blanket exactly 90° every night. I want no part in that.

I think it’s primarily written by someone used to a queen. When my wife and I had a queen, I’d get to bed a little later than her, have to shove her over to her 3/4 of the bed, and sleep while doing a delicate balancing act on my little sliver of bed.

After about a decade doing that we got a king size bed. I no longer have to shove her to get room for myself, but I still sleep on a same-size sliver that I’m used to. If I reach for my wife I can just barely reach her. It would be easy to reach her if I slept on a reasonable area of the bed, but that’s not what I do.

TL;DR: They’ve maintained the same distance from the edge they were used to, so all the new bed real estate ended up as a chasm between them.

No, it’s because late stage capitalism requires prices to go up all the time, while salaries stagnate. People are spending way more of their income on housing these days, and even with two incomes they’re living paycheck to paycheck. Why would anyone need to be propagandized? It’s literally dual income or bust.

In a lot of areas, two incomes per household is the only thing that keeps it a household. There is no need for propaganda.