Do you prefer your friends company?

[GoneToday]

TLDR - would you rather live with your best friend(s) than a romantic partner?

In 2021 I had a an unexpected break up of my 10 year relationship and have spent the last 18 months rebuilding.

My 3 friends have been absolutely amazing. One I stayed with for a few
months while I sorted out my housing situation and we just got on so well. Sharing the cooking/ jobs / bills
with no issues, pleasant company and chats with a glass of wine but no pressure to be social if one of us wanted a relaxing evening alone or out with other friends - no issues! Domestic bliss in fact!!

3 of us spent the Christmas period together and again it was wonderful company and shared cooking. One of us (trying not be be outing!) has a DC and 2 don’t.

But above all this I just really love their company. Far more so than that of my ex partner I had spent a decade of my life living with!

I’m now thinking I don’t want to live with a partner again, but would love to live with my friends! It would help with company, costs, household jobs and practicalities and most of all it seems fun! I’m a bit lonely in my house now and although I’m nearly 40 I just can’t get out of my head that living with friends seems a fantastic solution for me and many people?

Am I being unrealistic here? Is there a reason people don’t live with their platonic friends?

I think there’s a reason some women are happy to be a ‘sister wife’. Just one man between you but you get to live with your friends and raise the kids together.

I can see why that works for some
people! I certainly wouldn’t want a man at the heart of it though, nor to be sleeping with the same man as my friends!!
I think the female sisterhood thing is powerful though.

Story in the daily Mail about this exact thing today, at times I would agree it would definitely be easier !

I think where it gets difficult would be with children. I don't miss my ex husband in the slightest but I do miss having another adult around sometimes and have a few friends I would happily live with. However, we all have children, and I would always put my children's needs above anything else.

On the other hand I REALLY love solitude. So my ideal living scenario would be basically all my friends at a PGL centre. Meals in a canteen that I don't have to think about. A bar. A nice room of my own. Lovely grounds and a big zip wire.