Would you mind living alone?

I live by myself and love it. Now, if I didn't have my cats, I would be nuts; well nuttier anyway!;)

I voted "No, I already do and am fine with it." That's how I feel overall but there I times when I feel lonely and I miss human contact.

I go to my parents house once a week and I see Andy on the weekends.

I feel very strange at the moment - Don and I have been wed for 34 years - he's often had to work away and when the girls were small I found it harder - not being able to drive.

But he went to China 5 weeks ago and was due home today - he knew after 4 days there - this return was never going to happen and told me straightaway. The job is HUGE and has been vastly undertimed.

So at present he should return home - hopefully - the first week in December!! Course I miss him - but it gives me lots of lovely time to do MY thing.
I do hate going to bed alone - listening to night noises on my own spooks me. :eek: :eek:

Lynne

I enjoy living on my own very much. Notice I didn't say alone
because with animal companions I never feel alone.:) I love
answering only to myself. Friends and family are a phone call away if I feel like talking to someone.

:)

"WE" don't *live alone* ~

We gotz DAD! :D

An iffin HE seemz *lonelee* - we load him up an take him
to a PT Gathurin!

:D
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I miss living alone a lot!

I have been in all kinds of living situations the past 6 years (dorm rooms, sorority house, shared an off-campus apt. with three other girls, lived alone without pets, lived alone with pets, and living currently with my boyfriend). I loved being alone. There's nothing like it! You can pay all your bills on time, you always know where you are in terms of money. No one else's mess to clean up, no one's dog to chew up your favorite Italian leather sandals ( :mad: ), no one to bounce a check they wrote you for the water/rent/cable whatever. No one to come home drunk and wake you up by smoking cigarettes in the hallway and being loud. No one to be in your face all the time, when they're sick, mad, or annoying the crap out of you. No one to fight back with you when you're in a bad mood. No one to leave hair in the drain. No one to "borrow" your clothes without asking and never return them. I could go on! I have had my share of roommates! I'm done living with girls. I like living with my boyfriend, of course, but I do miss being on my own sometimes.

I'm really very independent in nature and lived alone for many of the years I was single (until age 30), but getting older seems to have changed all that. On the other hand, I like things how I like them, and there are many personal traits that I would find hard to live with. [There is a level of clutter that I would find more than I could handle. I like peace and quiet as opposed to lots of entertaining, people coming and going, etc.]

Unfortunately at the age I and my husband are at, I have had to think about the possibility of what I would do if something would happen to him. In a perfect world, one of you PT people and your pets would come to live with me!;)

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Originally posted by Cinder & Smoke
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"WE" don't *live alone* ~

We gotz DAD! :D

An iffin HE seemz *lonelee* - we load him up an take him
to a PT Gathurin!

:D
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He he he Cinder and Smoke - don't you dawgies go forgetting Bootz!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: No ones ever lonely with a pusscat to cuddle with xxxx

Lynne

I've lived on my own since my son left home which was in ... let me see ... August '86 - 18 years ago. Human companionship I have hardly missed at all, but to live without a canine and/or cat companion? Now that would indeed make my life a lonely one!!

Chris

Hi,
I am 52yrs young. I have a 27 yr.old daughter not living with me. I own my own home for 11 years.(alone). I rent out one room for extra help with bills. I have been married twice, divorced twice. Very bad both times. i have had a long relationship for 7 yrs. fizzle out because he cheated on me. I have my new pet/companion Chica, I love very much. I am off the market as far as dating is concerned. I don't want any more men in my life. The ones I have had were self centered, cheaters, liers. I don't need or want that again. I am doing just fine. I am happy. I have a lot of self asteem!! I always have. I am a pretty woman. That is not my problem. I don't like men trying to manipulate me. I have a strong mind. If the relationship can't be 50/50 and good, I don't want it.PERIOD!!!!:cool: :D :)

I went from living with my parents to buying my own house. I lived completely alone from June to Sept when I woke up one day and it hit me that I had thought about getting a dog and if I wanted one I had better go and get one! And I haven't been 'alone' ever since. Other then when Shaianne had a stay overnite at the vet, pre Kylie. Since then, I have had Kylie with me.

I can't imagine doing it any other way. My house is small, but it is mine. I have my own yard and a 2 car garage. I don't have to worry about thin walls and my neighbors hearing me thru them (not that I do anything for them to hear but still) :p
If I want to stay up until 5 in the morning I don't have to worry about my neighbors hearing my TV. etc.
At this point I can't imagine living with a human. Who knows what the future will bring?!

I lived alone for six months, and, can't wait to do it again! I'm in a house with a roommate right now and really hope to get my own apartment soon. I don't think I'd wanna do it without a pet, though.