Wow! You really moved me. You wrote this story very well, it's very intense, and delicate. And I find a personal meaning in your words...I have a friend with whom I am very confident about sentimental things. I often found myself in disagreement with her, because she don't love to sleep in the same bed with her man. I mean...she likes to do the other things a couple does in bed, but after that...separate bedrooms please.
Instead, sleeping between the arms of the other half of the couple is for me the most intimate and beautiful gesture that can be shared together, even if sometimes it's too hot, or someone snores, or moves too much. I think I would say the same thing the old woman in you story said.