Do your brain and your relationship a favor.
Pretend for a second that you and your boo are having a fight.
A bad one.
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You're mad, they're mad, everyone's mad.
There's yelling, and crying, and maybe even name-calling. It's ugly.
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And it's also like, 1 a.m. So what's your plan?
Right now. And forget the old saying "Never go to bed angry," because that old saying is actual bullshit. And that's according to science! Seriously.
You might think that staying up to fight it out proves that you care about your relationship and are willing to put in the work needed to fix what's wrong... but by following this tired idea, you're actually doing a lot of potential damage, rather than helping.
There are several factors at play here, Dr. Charles Czeisler, chairman of the board of the National Sleep Foundation and chief of sleep medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, tells BuzzFeed Life.
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