Have you ever lived alone?

[Eva]

Wasn't sure where to stick this so I put it here. :)

I often wish that I had lived alone a bit before I got married. I moved from my parent's house to my borther's place foe a few months to living with a roomate to moving in with David. That along with not travellng much my 20s are 2 things that wish I had done differently.

[TtownAnne]

Yes, I did - I only lived with a roommate once, and it was a horrible experience so I said I would never again live in an apartment that I couldn't afford by myself.

[Darcy]

Nope. I went from living with my parents to living with college roomates, to back with my parents, and then I moved in with Phil. I don't think I would care for living on my own. I enjoy having my space but going to sleep knowing that there's someone else in the house with me. :dunno:

[Michal]

I haven't, I moved from my parent's house to living with roomates to living with dh. I had one roomate though where we had opposite schedules, she work at night and I worked during the day so we never saw each other except for the odd weekend. That kind of felt like I was living alone.

[LISA]

Yes, I moved quite a few times first with my ex then I lived with a roomate( which was HELL!) then I rented a house when Cass was 1 1/2 it was a crappy house but I was so proud of it back in the day :)

[sunnyflower]

I lived alone for one year. I was so proud of myself that I had found the place, paid for everything on my own, and could afford everything that was necessary. Then I moved in with Gary adn the rest is history!

[Lynn]

I say I live alone from February 28-July 4 every year. :giggle:

But no, I've never lived alone. Like Darcy I went from my parents house to college, back home and then lived with a roomate before living with Keith. I like being alone though. :screwy:

[Alyson]

Nope. I went from living with my parents (then dad when they divorced) to living with Matt. I'd hate living alone, I'm way too big of a chicken!

[Shel]

Not really, unless you count after my divorce living in the apartment. Kaleb and Jacob were with me, so I wasn't really alone, but I was the only adult.

[Alyssa]

Not really. I had a single for 2nd semester freshman year in college, but I pretty much lived with/at my boyfriend's house (he was a senior - ooh!) so that really shouldn't count. That and I shared a phone w/ the guys next door (we literally passed a single phone back and forth between our rooms - it seems so arcane!) so my door was always open/people were there.

Otherwise, no...I had roommates all post college until I got married.

[Jayne]

Nope..I lived with my parents and then When Dan and I got married I moved into our new house together. Sometimes I wish I had had that experience though.

[Carmen]

After college, I moved back home, then into an apartment with a friend. After that, I bought my own house, and lived by myself for four years. During that time, I also put myself through graduate school.

Most of the time, I'm really glad that I had the experience of living on my own (especially owning property.) I was settled and comfortable, so when I met Kyle, I felt like I had accomplished a lot on my own, and it felt good to have a partner to share life's adventures with.

Sometimes I wish that I had met Kyle a little earlier, but all in all, I'm happy with the way things worked out. I was happy in the life I had before I met him, but the life we've made together is even better.

[sheila]

Yes, I've had 2 stints of living by myself. The first was the first year I lived in Atlanta, and then the year and a half before I got married (ok, not much of the last half of that year was spent alone).

[AmyP]

No. I went from living with my parents to living with Rob a little less than a year before we got married. And I'm okay with that. :)

[Michele]

The closest I got was a single my sophomore year of college. Other than that I always had roomates, and I moved in with Scott 2 months after college graduation. I always wanted to live by myself for a little bit, but it made more sense to move in with Scott.

[kika]

In college I guess. I didn't have roomates my 2nd and 3rd year.

I also lived alone with the kids for 2 years....but that's not really alone.

[schwanda]

I lived alone for 2 of my 4 years of college and I lived alone (and off-campus) for my last year of med school. I really enjoyed living alone!

Amanda

[mrs.knip]

Yep, I did not have a roomate for my last 2 1/2 years of college and then I lived on an apartment on my own for 1 1/2 years before getting married. I am glad I had that experience, I enjoy my own space.

[Girlo]

Oh yes. :lol:

I started at 18, when I moved to Houston from Seattle. I lived in my own apt. there for 1.5 years, then I moved to Boston where I had roommates. After a year in Boston, I moved back to Houston for another year before moving back to WA to go to college.
My first year of college, I had a roommate (one of my best friends now) and then I had my own place the rest of the time (4 years after that). After college, I moved to Seattle with my first DH. We lived together for 3 years before separating. Then, I lived alone for another 3 years (ish) before moving in with Paul.

Let's see.....that's almost 10 years of living alone!! :eek: Holy cow.....I knew it was a good-sized number, but not that long! :lol: The good part is that I know I enjoy living alone and if it should happen again, it's totally okay.

[Sam W]

I've had too many moves in the last 16 years to give a recount (18 if memory serves), but yes, I've definitely lived alone.

[Alysia]

Nope not really.

I went from living with my parents to living with DH (then boyfriend). I sort of lived by myself for 6 weeks when DH moved to Seattle before I did because I was finishing a semester of school.

[MrsPeacefrog]

Nope, went from parents to roommates to tony. Never really felt the need to live alone :dunno: I didn't have a boyfriend through some of the time I had roommates and that was my "alone" time.

[Becca]

I lived with my parents/grama up until I was 19yo when I moved in with Brad. I haven't really lived alone...yet I feel like I have due to Brad's career in the CF. Just after we moved in together he was gone doing training & teaching so I was basically by myself & its been off & on like that ever since. That's life for a military wife though eh? :lol:

[~Deborah~]

Nope....went from parents house to living with Jay the day we got married :eek:. Talk about SHOCK! :giggle:

[Eleanor]

Yes- all through med school. The first apt. was in a somewhat scary part of town, so I wasn't thrilled. The second one wasn't that scary (although, oddly enough, that's where I had a SWAT team in my apt. doing a stakeout of a hostage situation across the courtyard! :eek: ) I don't really like living alone. When I do stay alone here (usually when DH takes the girls to his moms, when I have to work for the weekend), I like it during the day, but am freaked out a bit at night...

[marcy]

Yes, I did.

In college I was non-roommate 1/2 of freshman year, and then sophomore, junior, and senior years as I was an RA and had my own room. After college, I lived in my apartment alone for ... I don't remember how long. I think I lived there for 2 years but I had a friend who lived there for a month, then my brother lived there weekends only for about 6 months, then another friend for a few months. In the next apartment the roommate lived there for 6 months then I was alone for the next year or so. I traveled a lot for my job so I was alone on the road.

[Bev]

Oh yes. :lol:

Let's see.....that's almost 10 years of living alone!! The good part is that I know I enjoy living alone and if it should happen again, it's totally okay.
Ditto! :nod:

After college (I lived with my sister during college) and university (on campus with a room-mate) I lived with some "people" until I moved back home and got my own place. I think that was 1990, then I moved cities and continued living alone until 1995 when I had two room-mates for about 6 months until I bought my house. I lived alone there from 1996 to 2000 when Patrick and I moved in together.

I liked living alone. It was quiet. I could do what I wanted when I wanted. It was quiet. I got to watch what I wanted on TV. And did I mention the quiet? :lol: I get that at night now. :heee:

[Cami]

Yep. I went from college dorm to living with boyfriend to breaking up with boyfriend/living alone for 2 years to living with same boyfriend again (boy am I dumb) for 3 years to finally breaking up/living alone for another year until I met DH.

I think it's important to have been on your own and know you can do it. I say now (but maybe not in 15 yrs!) that I will encourage my kids to a) go away to college and b) live on their own for a while.

[Kristen]

No...I went with living with parents to college and living with a roommate. After college I moved back in with my parents for a year and then got married. I don't really regret it...I think I would be lonely by myself.

[Bonnie]

Yes, for about 2 years. I had the cutest little one bedroom apartment about 2 blocks fro the ocean. I loved it! During the time I lived there, I was dating Lee and he lived close by, but it was wonderful to have my own home. Once we got engaged, I moved in with him.

[Connie1222]

Oh yes! I left my parents house at 19, moved from apartment to apartment, moved back home, moved back out. I met Keith when I was 28, and I loved my little studio apartment that I was living in, but moved in with him shortly thereafter.

[magoo]

No. After high school, I spent 2 years in university residence, then 2 years sharing a house with 5 of my friends. I spent the summers at home. The year I graduated, I got married. :)

[Karri]

Technically, no. But the first summer I had an apartment, my roommate was living at home for the summer, so I lived by myself for 3 months. Other than that, I've always had roommates.

[Barb]

Yes. For about five years before I got married I lived by myself in a condo I rented from my parents. Now I live alone half the time, when I don't have the kids.

[Nocona]

I lived alone from the time I got out of college until Paul moved in with me - almost 4 years. I liked it. I'm about to be living alone again, but the kids will be with me 1/2 the time.

[Wendy]

Yes I have...total of about 2 years since I left home at 18.

[MamaGoofy]

Yes I did and I LOVED it! I moved out of my moms house to my boyfriends house and then we got a place of our own. When I finally kicked him to the curb I lived alone for awhile. It was great. I loved coming and going as I please doing whatever I wanted and not having to clean up after someone other than myself! It was great depending on only me!

[Kimmy0712]

I moved out of my parents house and into an apartment. I lived there for 6 months. Dh proposed after I had just moved in so I only lived there until we got married. We didn't live together until we got married.

[Shanna]

Yes. I had no roomate the first semester of college. Then when I moved back to Fort Smith, I had an apartment there, but had roommates after a little while. Then, I had an apartment in Little Rock, then John moved in with me. He, however, moved from his mommy's house to mine. *NOT* a great experience :lol: :tearhair:

[Sandy]

I lived alone from the time I got out of college until Paul moved in with me - almost 4 years. I liked it. I'm about to be living alone again, but the kids will be with me 1/2 the time.

Wha? What's going on? Have I missed something???

I have lived alone several times - actually, it never occurred to me that people don't live alone before they get married. :lol: I like living alone, provided it is in an apartment. I like having people close by when by myself. I have never lived in a house by myself.

[Nadine]

No, never.
I moved to a boarding school at 16, then from there to the place where I did my National Service (where I lived in the boarding school of the kids whose counselor I was) and then I got married.

[Jillian]

Nope, I went from my mom's house to a dorm in kalamazoo to a dorm in lansing, back to my mom's, to dh's(then boyfriend) apartment in ann arbor.

[TtownAnne]

actually, it never occurred to me that people don't live alone before they get married. :lol:

Me too. :nod: But I guess it's because I don't get the idea of not liking to be alone. My one roommate experience was bad enough to turn me off of EVER living with someone else - it's lucky for DH I was willing to live with him! :giggle:

[gulp!]

yes, I lived alone for a year. I was living with 2 roommates after college when I bought myself a 1 bedroom condo.

We joke that the condo was 'cursed' though- I bought it from a woman who owned it a year before getting engaged (and thus needing a bigger place for the 2 of them), and then sure enough, I owned it a year when I got engaged! :lol:

[bunybomb]

YES!!! I loved living alone. I'm so glad I did because it helped me grow into a real self-sufficient adult. When I moved to Colorado at the age of 26, I got my own place. Later, I tried a roommate but that didn't work out. I lived alone until I was 31 and met my husband. We moved in together within 6 months.

My husband never lived alone........:scratch:..... :lol:

[Hilary]

:hug99: Nocona.