So I know I've been supportive and offered advice to women looking to occupy their time while their guys are away. But now that it's my turn (and only for a short while in easy circumstances, so I'm not complaining here), I'm worried I'll be a lazy slug while he's gone. He'll be gone all summer, as I mentioned in a previous post, doing a JAG internship at Parris Island. I'll see him twice, hopefully, but it's doubtful that he'll come home at all - I'll have to go to him. I'll miss him, but I'm mostly worried about going slowly crazy and devolving into a slug while he's gone!
I am a messy, social person - so not having anyone at home is like being in a padded cell. I go slowly insane, and make absolutely no effort to clean as no one will see it but me. It's a bad environment for me.
He was away visiting family this weekend, and I already saw myself going into bad habits. Staying up late because there was no one to suggest we go to sleep already, eating crappy food, having no motivation to clean and getting overwhelmed by the clutter.
So mostly this is advice on living alone - I know I'll miss him, but I also know it'll be fine. But I'm mostly worried about just living alone! How do you keep yourself busy and productive when you're living alone? How do you fill your evenings and weekends so you don't feel like the silence of your house is slowly suffocating you?
