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Old 02-25-2012, 08:00 PM   #36
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The article also talks about how living alone might lead to quirkiness, eccentricies, and general weirdness in the comfort of our own homes where we are free to be ourselves. It is being called Secret Single Behavior.
The NY Times needs to get with the times - weird is the new normal and normal is the new wierd.

Personally, there's nothing new about any of this. Typically, if living alone, we have more freedom to act how we want and when we want to.

However, it's no different to someone who lives as part of a large family i.e. their behaviour will be very different in that family setting to when the rest of the family disappear and, similarly, their behaviour will typically be different when at work i.e. to a certain extent, we adjust our behaviour to varying degrees depending upon the social circumstances and expectations.

When living on your own, you're clearly less restricted in that sense. Is that weird? To me, it seems weird to want it any other way ....... as someone who works intense hours in a crowded city, has an active and rather intense life outside of work, I love to be able to shut the door to the world, to escape people and just be my natural grumpy and curmudgeonous self.
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