Sleep Texting - Dubz gets published

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by Kathleen Thurber
Midland Reporter-Telegram

Published: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 8:02 AM CDTWhen James Cross’ wife goes out of town, he admits he’s at a loss for what to do with himself.

While a brief return to bachelorhood can be the opportune time to order pizza and watch the game without needing to balance out the pepperoni with a light salad and ESPN with HGTV, the delineation from the everyday partnership also can be enough to throw a spouse’s whole system out of whack.

For Cross, that can mean a flare of unusual sleep habits that have included the occasional unconscious jaunt around the house to more recently sleep-texting his wife while she’s away.

When his wife Shala was visiting a cousin a few months ago, he said, she sent him a message to see if he was asleep and though he was in fact deep into his sleep cycle, he sent her an admittedly illegible reply —thtroat —, he wrote, but an attempt at communication no less.

“I really don’t have any recollection of it,” he said.

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