[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Kelt

I don't think I'm weird, and I love living alone. I tried the live-together bit, three times, two years each, all in my twenties. Each time I started feeling trapped at about six months but tried to stick it out. Bad idea for everyone involved.

I've lived alone for the last twenty five years and wouldn't change a thing. I have been partnered and single, and I have been pressured hard to "be normal". I am normal, perhaps more normal than most, I'm happy when many are miserable for the sake of.. what? I have no need to share the joys of housework. I will live down the hall, across the street, or upstairs. But not with. I know my limits and respect those of others.

I'm glad so many want to and do live together, but it isn't for me.

Gemme, get a cat! They're the bee's knee's, well not so much but you know. Calicos are best. And yes, I talk to my cat all the time. She is mute, literally not figuratively, so we're a matched set.

Kelt, thanks for the suggestion. I've had many cats through the years and up to 8 at one time. I'm an OCL -- Original Cat Lady! lol

My dad has the best solution I've found for those that wish to be partnered but wish to live alone as well. He lives in one modular home and a few doors down, his wife lives in her own mod home. He's close enough to do the stuff around her place that she can't or won't do and she's close enough to bring over his favorite home cooked meals. They go to church and doctor visits and the store together like any other married couple but then he goes home to his bed and she goes home to hers. Brilliant!