Living alone

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Registered: 10-08-2003
Living alone
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Tue, 12-13-2005 - 11:41am

I have to know when everyone started living completely alone. Not when you left your parents but when you got your first place completely by yourself and how you handled it?
I have always lived with someone else, be it a boyfriend or a roommate and on January 12th, I will be living alone for the very first time in my life and it's kind of scary and exciting. I get to decorate however I want to. I can make a mess and know that it's my mess and I don't have to do anyone else's laundry. I can leave my underwear in the kitchen if I so choose.
But will I be lonely? What if I need someone to talk to and it's 2 am? What if I get scared and I need someone to comfort me? What do you do then? What if I'm bored and want some company, but there's no one there?
What are the things that you love best about living alone?
And the things that you hate?

~Chloe

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Registered: 11-21-2005
In reply to: chloekins143
Wed, 12-14-2005 - 9:14am
I'm jealous of you guys who live by yourselves!
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Registered: 09-01-2005
In reply to: chloekins143
Wed, 12-14-2005 - 9:16am

Once I parted with my last roommate (about 4 years ago) I vowed I'd never have one again. I don't care if I have to live in a 400 sq. ft. box, I don't want another roommate, it's just too hard with two different lifestyles and zero commitment so neither person is willing to work harder than the other.

Other than that, I love living alone most of the time. I think one poster said that it's important to her that everything that was there when she left is there when she gets back. This is SO nice. I've had roommates and boyfriends that would eat food, "borrow" things and move things around when I wasn't there. That's pretty frustrating.

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