In effort to not clog up a different thread, it’s poll time. For left and right, think your left and right if you’re lying on your back in bed. Can choose 2 options. If no current bed partner, go with past ones.
It doesn’t matter to me. I think her reason is just a clearer pathway.
voted for woman closer to door, though it was really closer to the bathroom.
I wasn’t going to break it down to closer to kids, bathroom, etc.
Google tells me the man on right, woman on left is more common than closer vs farther from the door.
Woman on left because it is closer to the bathroom. It also happens to be closer to the door.
Agreed this is the rule here. Spouse sleeps on the side closest to the bathroom. They’re up in the night, I am not.
We switch every few months on no schedule and for no reason. Somebody is occasionally asleep on the opposite side of the bed and the other person deals with it and sometimes it sticks. Currently am further from the door, not long ago was closer.
married 40 years, lived 5 places, never changed sides of the bed. if alone, home or hotel, i sleep on my side.
I believe originally we felt man should be by door. Never a bathroom suite until current place, only 5 years.
Now i am closer to door, and bathroom.
I sleep on the left since I sleep on my side and this eliminates jamming my knee into the SO by accident. Not so much an issue at home now with a king bed, but translates over nicely if we ever go someplace smaller.
but you didn’t include that choice :rdh:
In our current house, the left/right choice makes her closer to the door, I don’t remember which side was closer to the door in prior houses, but she’s consistently been on the left, and also takes the left when traveling.
Why isn’t there a space for me to indicate that even better would be me in the middle, female on both sides?
because this is not about fantasy
This can easily become hell for most men.
We have changed it up, and also moved our bed. So sometimes I’m on the left, sometimes the right, sometimes closest to the door, sometimes farther.
In a hotel, though, I always pick the bed farthest from the door and the side farthest from the door, unless I’m alone, then it’s bed farthest from door and side closest to tv remote/nightstand.
Hotel - always same side, if two beds, where I get a nightstand, if on both sides, otherwise bed best for TV viewing.
I prefer to be away from the window, as can’t always close out light completely
It used to be woman on right and closer to the door, but switched due to accommodate the cosleeper bassinet thing when the kid was a baby.
On a recent vacation it was man on the left and closer to the door. 
I shared a bed with my dad once. I can’t remember who was on which side but I didn’t care.
because you don’t have a million dollars?
This is the rule for wherever we sleep, though at the moment as the bedroom is set up it’s me left, her right.
Man closes to the bedroom door to mitigate the threat to her from an intruder.
If there are two doors, one tot he outside and one to the inside, the man sleeps closest to the outside door. Again, to mitigate any threats.
I never knew anybody thought otherwise.