All by myself...

jeanacorina

Yep... so what does that REALLY say about it? You don't know until you try?

I am by no means saying that you should be homeless (that WOULD be an experience), or that anybody should move out of their happy home with their BF or FI.

However, I think the trend is saying that if you're ever in the position to live alone, you SHOULD try it out for a while. It's scary, I ain't gonna lie. I wondered for MONTHS if I could really afford to be doing what I was doing.

But those months of Ramen noodles taught me a lot about myself and what I really want in life and in a companion.

Button5807

I had a chat about this w/BF last night and we decided if either of us kicked the bucket then the other would give living alone a try.

**Mutley**

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[QUOTE]Yep... so what does that REALLY say about it? You don't know until you try? I am by no means saying that you should be homeless (that WOULD be an experience), or that anybody should move out of their happy home with their BF or FI. However, I think the trend is saying that if you're ever in the position to live alone, you SHOULD try it out for a while. It's scary, I ain't gonna lie. I wondered for MONTHS if I could really afford to be doing what I was doing. But those months of Ramen noodles taught me a lot about myself and what I really want in life and in a companion.
Posted by jeanacorina[/QUOTE]

Darn it.  I agree with what Jeanna said.  <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-money-mouth.gif" border="0" alt="Money mouth" title="Money mouth" />

I think it would be ridiculous to move into a place by yourself when you already live with your SO just to experience it.  But darn it, I am ridiculously glad that I had that experience.

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[QUOTE] But those months of Ramen noodles taught me a lot about myself and what I really want in life and in a companion.
Posted by jeanacorina[/QUOTE]

Ohhhh the ramen noodle days...boy I'm glad those days are over!!  I loved on those and grilled cheese sandwiches for quite some time.

chipypony

What is your current relationship status?  Dating 5 years

Since you graduated High school list all of the different living situations you've been in:
Lived with parents through college (lived in the next town, hard to justify the money) through 3 years of school
Lived with older sister and neice- almost 1 year
Currently living alone on the complete opposite side of the country- for the next 5 years


Do you think you need to live 100% by yourself before you get married? Why?
A lot of people told me it would be good...im still waiting for that good feeling to come and lonely feeling to go away. I enjoy paying my own bills and cooking my own food and its nice to be alone to get my work done without distractions (except for this darn internet!). However, it has been very hard from living with my family or some family member my whole life to being completely on my own with no friends or family to visit with. My father passed away on halloween 09 and I have been paying some of my mothers bills as well (a grad stipend is just not enough for all this). But my boyfriend tells me this living alone thing is good...

jeanacorina

Chipy, you might not appreciate living on your own until it's over and you look back fondly on those solitary evenings. It's one of those hindsight things. I didn't really enjoy it at the time, either. I get bored easily, and I missed the background noise of living with people.

But dang, I had a king bed to myself! Now I share a queen bed with a FI and two cats.

chipypony

Yeah, they keep telling me this...and I keep hoping its true cause boy is its lonely when you don't know anyone...although I have gotten my work done extraordinarily fast compared to my undergrad