If money was no object, would you live alone?

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I love DP, but I also always loved living alone. We ended up living together because it makes economic sense, but having had this debate with a few female friends recently, almost all of us said we would actually prefer living alone and having two homes if money wasn’t an issue—even the married ones!

Plenty of research exists to show men are better off when living with women and women don’t benefit in the same way by living with men. Just interested in opinions. For me, it’s mostly about knowing the place will be beautiful, quiet, tidy, clean and that I can be alone if I want.

No, I love my husband, I enjoy being around him and makes a difference hes not an incompetent arse that sees me as a maid 😆

I've lived alone for 17 years since my divorce and I can't see myself wanting to share my space ever again.

yes 100%

No, I love living with dp. Lived alone for 6 months (between exh finally moving out and moving in with dp) didn’t like it

I've never ever lived alone and would love to, maybe 2 or 3 days a week.

No, I'd live in a huge house with my husband and kids, with my own bathroom, dressing room and study, and various cottages on the estate for friends coming to stay and children as they get older.

No.
Unless DH is gone. Then yes. Don't think I could live with someone else tbh

Yes

No. Living with DH is a choice, not a necessity. I'd hate to be trapped like that.

Yes. Definitely.

yes

Me and my husband have often said, we should sell our 4 bed house, buy 2 two bedroom flats next to each other.

Yes at this moment get away from this moaning grinch of a husband

No, I wouldn't want to live alone. I've done it a couple of times, but I'm a gregarious soul and I like living with others. Besides, it's not DH that makes all the work around the house, it's the DC.

Perfect solution. I need a place I can be messy.

We do have two separate homes, I highly recommend it. We are very happily married.

I already live alone. I have a DP (lives 10 min walk away) but we have no plans to live together. Been there, done that. Not doing it again.

Definitely, I’ve even suggested 2 homes in the past . Just think 🤔 making decisions just for yourself

I would definitely live alone. I mean, I do, but I’m poor at the same time. The ideal would be mo money, no problem. 😂

No, I’ve never lived alone nor wanted to.

It’s not because I don’t love DP and I really do enjoy him being around! Tbh, we’re not even ‘forced’ to live together because we could each afford our own places, it would just mean us each spending about an extra 1500 a month unnecessarily.

He does nothing egregious, no LTB behaviour, I would just love to live in a beautiful, quiet home with gorgeous fabrics! Honestly, his worst offences are a need to listen to loud, fast, thrashy music while in the shower in the mornings to wake himself up, that godawful snorting thing that so many men do, leaving his socks around, dropping crumbs and his unfortunate taste in aesthetics. If he had his druthers, we’d have swords and flags and Medieval armour on the walls and I hate it.

I’ve always enjoyed my own company. With DC at uni abroad I admit I’d love my own little palace of peace and solitude!

Absolutely! Would probably end up sleeping over a few times a week but yes, I’d much prefer to have my own cozy, tidy home to retreat (in silence) to.

I think Charles and Camilla do this? They have their separate residences and lives because it’s just easier. Apparently one of them is a clean freak and the other isn’t too.

No. We have plenty of space and are considerate of each other, including needs to be alone and mooch about without talking. But life is 1000% better living together.

No

I lived alone for ages. I do think a lot of posters reply in the affirmative because to them, having the house to themselves is a novelty. Like when I visit London, I think it’s amazing but if I actually lived there and the astronomical costs and the traffic and the reality of it would hit me hard.

I also feel nervy and tense at night without DH around.

This is why you need a mansion OP. He can have his library with medieval armour and you can have your sunny sitting room in pretty fabrics. His bathroom can be in the west wing where you'll never hear his shower music.