I'm certainly no expert at dog training, everyone knows that especially Carrie, but I do have that same thing with Perry. He sleeps in his crate, he doesn't have to, in fact I brought him up to bed with us and and he was very restless wanted to go back to his crate. One night I decided to leave his crate door open so he could sleep anywhere he wanted to but he kept crying so I went down and he went in his crate and he wanted the door closed, after I closed it he went to sleep and didn't wake up till morning.
During the day sometimes he will sleep on the couch, sometimes on my husbands chair and sometimes he likes to go in his crate and sleep. We never crate trained him, he was trained when we got him at 9 months old.
We keep two crates in our side kitchen for traveling one for him and one for Daisy, she never goes in her crate, but he brings his toys and his night night rabbit and goes in when he feels like it. We don't worry about it, he pretty much goes where ever he wants to. Sometimes he is very sociable and sometimes he likes to be alone. Don't know if this will help or not.
Jackie