Meh. I live alone and can tell you from a biological standpoint it’s not healthy. People have to be around others because we are hardwired for it. Loneliness is more destructive than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, and that’s a hardwired consequence you can’t get around with your worldview and moral outlook. Those who live alone live shorter lives on average.
Yup, people live alone and think it’s fine but they don’t realize that it’s making their mental health sooooo much worse than i could be if they had people around them.
My ideal is to live in a dorm-style area, where you have a minimal apartment to be alone in and then most other things are communal so it’s easy to balance the need for privacy with the need for human contact.
I can still freely do most of these. This post made me appreciate my girlfriend.
Exactly. Now they should do all the positives of being ina relationship and add it to that list.
I can’t lie, being accountable to nobody is pretty damn good. Like any action I take I don’t need to consider someone else’s feelings.
Or maybe just let people who choose to live alone have their thing without making it about you and your different choices?
We’re discussing “highly underrated advantages” not actually being unique to people who live alone.
So yeah I can let them think only single people have those freedoms if you like. I’m responding to someone who is making the same point as me.
Meh. I live alone and can tell you from a biological standpoint it’s not healthy. People have to be around others because we are hardwired for it. Loneliness is more destructive than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, and that’s a hardwired consequence you can’t get around with your worldview and moral outlook. Those who live alone live shorter lives on average.
Yup, people live alone and think it’s fine but they don’t realize that it’s making their mental health sooooo much worse than i could be if they had people around them.
My ideal is to live in a dorm-style area, where you have a minimal apartment to be alone in and then most other things are communal so it’s easy to balance the need for privacy with the need for human contact.
Who said they weren’t in a relationship? You do understand that people can be in a relationship and live alone?
I meant living in the same house as your SO. I think people got what I meant.
I did most of these when I lived in a student dorm lol
Right? The only one that doesn’t really apply is cooking for 1, but I like cooking and cooking for 2 is often the same amount of effort.
the horror of putting twice as much spaghetti in the pot
The real horror is that the extra portion ends up on my plate and I still somehow manage to finish all of it!
Aw, that’s sweet :)