Kaley Cuoco Wasn’t Initially on Board With Fiance Tom Pelphrey’s Proposed Sleeping Arrangement: ‘What Will People Think?’

Kaley Cuoco and her fiancé, Tom Pelphrey, have settled into an unconventional sleeping arrangement that works for their growing family, but Cuoco needed some convincing.

“We do couples therapy, and we love it,” the Big Bang Theory alum, 40, told Dax Shepard on the Monday, February 9, episode of his Armchair Expert podcast about how the Task actor broached the subject of sleeping of separate bedrooms. “So he brings us up. At first, I’m like, ‘What will people think?’ And he’s like, ‘I never see you at night.’ I don’t see him. It’s not our sexy time. We don’t cuddle. Yeah. We don’t see each other at night. He goes, ‘Why do you care?’ And I sat there and I went, ‘God, I don’t care.’ And he goes, ‘Let’s try it.'”

Cuoco explained that she and Pelphrey, 43, are on opposite sleep schedules as he’s “a night owl,” while she’s an early riser.

“He writes at night. He reads. It’s his quiet time,” she explained. “So he’s up late and wakes up late on a non-working day. We established this from day one. I go to bed early, and I wake up early. We’re totally on different sleeping schedules.”

After some initial skepticism, Cuoco — who shares 2-year-old daughter Matilda, as well as numerous rescue dogs with her fiancé — now calls the decision for Pelphrey to sleep in the guest room a “game changer” and the “best decision we ever made.”