I like being alone, I enjoy being able to have conversations with myself. I am not built to be with someone 24 hours a day.
My partner being at home is not good to my head. I love him to death, but he is just always there, he also does not deal well with being with someone 24 hours a day.
As we have recently discovered, he does not deal well with being with someone 24 hours a day and having to watch the shit she likes.
This is where compromise comes in and the use of of rooms. On a Saturday, he will watch all the shit I want at the minute. During the week, we deal with the telly and at least once a week one of us will go into the bedroom to watch something on the laptop, this just gives us a bit of a break from each other.
We also have split Monkey’s school run and to be honest that has actually been a godsend, to have 20 minutes on our own and 20 minutes with Monkey just chatting.
We also have to try and add in quality time with each other, you can be with each other and not get any quality time.
But as with anything at the moment, communication is key
Good said! Communication is the key👍
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Thank you
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We are lucky enough to have a big enough house to give each other space. I go to “work” in a spare bedroom I call my office and my wife uses our bedroom as hers. I come out and fix lunch around noon time, we chat for a while and then I go back to “work”. It gives us space and we aren’t attached at the hip 24/7.
Communication and understanding is definitely the key to deal with each others needs and space. Good luck my friend.
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Thank you Larry, all we really need is the 3 rooms for all of us to get a bit of time away from the others
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I know what you mean, quantity time and quality time are not the same thing. ; )
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Very much so, at times it feels more like quantity not quality
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I know exactly how this feels and can relate.
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Hope you are ok
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Thank you for your wishes. I am just extremely burned out…like autistic shutdown. My hubby and I live in a small one bedroom apartment so sometimes it can be harder to find that alone time I really need some days. We are working on getting out of this place by next year though…especially cause this place is so expensive and a complete rip off.
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I really hope you manage it, it was bad enough in the 2 bed we have, but we have always managed to find a way for the break
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You hit the nail on the head when you said, communication is key! I do agree that’s so true!
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It really is and probably the main thing that has held our relationship together for the last 10 years
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