I will be living by myself for the first time in a very. very. long time in the next week or so... i'll get back to you w how weirder I've become ;-s

I am a loner by nature. I enjoy living alone. I need space. Does it make me weird? Hmm... Well, I do talk to myself. :blink: But I know how to behave when outside. That being said, I have had to catch myself when making quirky noises. I am very particular about my space, how things are organized and cleaned. I wouldn't say I'm a neat freak but others might.

Some might consider my eating habits weird. They seem normal to me. lol I eat what I want, however I want, when I want. If I feel like using a mixing bowl for my cereal or whatever I'm eating I do. If I feel like using a nice plate I do. Closing doors to use the bathroom? Why? There's no one here. But I remember my manners when outside of my house. As for clothing, I will just say I am always comfortable and leave it at that. *smirk*

But isn't this what being grown is about? Having your own place where you set the rules and are 100% free to be you without judgment? I'm a quirky guy and living alone means enjoy being quirky in peace no matter what that looks like on any given day.

amen to gentle tiger's post.

i'm living alone for the first time in my life and i love it. when my partners move here in the next year we're getting a house together but til then i have a whole two-bedroom apartment all to myself (one bedroom's an office). i've always lived with roommates before this.

i have weird house-only outfits...they're called "pajamas." (i.e. tank tops and plaid pants i would never wear in public but i wear them all the time if i'm staying home all day or working from home.) i don't think that habit is THAT quirky. lol.

i eat weird things sometimes but i try to eat pretty regularly and eat normal stuff. i do sometimes have a strange sleeping cycle and i leave the bathroom door open, but i do that whether i'm alone or with a partner - it doesn't really matter. my partners have weird sleeping cycles too.

So... I thought I wanted to reply, but honestly, my weirdnesses are mine. They are weird and probably make me unappealing on so many levels, but I'm glad to see that some of my eccentricities are shared by others (bathroom door open, eating out of jars, declaiming ingredients lists as one would a monologue, etc.)

Maybe there are things I do which I don't find weird, but others would. That's the scary bit!

Technically, I don't live alone. I have a housemate, who is also one of my best mates, but he isn't here about 50 percent of the time because his work takes him out of town or out of state quite often.

Living alone doesn't make me weird. I've never really been bothered by it. It does make me lazy about inside chores (I love doing work outside), as some of have mentioned. I do chat with my dog from time to time. I like being able to lounge about in my boxers and a tshirt and watch baseball whenever I want. I like being able to have my own schedule, though lately I am not as good about sticking to it.

Lately, I have found myself having brief periods of acute loneliness. I've started working on it in therapy to try to determine the root of it. It has only started in the last couple of months. I think part of it is a lot of my local friends now have kids who are older and more involved in after-school things, like sports or the arts, and they are all wrapped up in that. And while I do occasionally go to a high school swim meet in support of my friends' daughter, I do miss our more care-free days of potlucks and cook-outs.

i forgot to add! one of my other weirdnesses is that i eat on nice dishes all the time. when i first moved into my new place i couldn't bring a lot of my previous possessions, including cheap dishes. i got a few plastic plates just in case until i got settled, then my neighbor gave me two huge boxes of gorgeous antique chinese dishes, cups, and bowls. and a friend gave me some crystal plates. and i figure why let them sit around and go un-used? lol :) so if you eat dinner at my house you'll get the fancy schmancy stuff. even if it's just for pizza.

i sleep on a mattress on the floor and i actually like it that way. i have a bed frame with box springs but when i moved the bed from room to room the box springs wouldn't fit around the corners. so i tried to convert the bed frame into a platform bed. that didn't work out so well. so i just put the frame in a closet and now i sleep on the floor. i'm looking into buying a new platform bed (i want a bigger bed) at some point, but i'd still prefer for it to be low to the ground even if not on the ground. sometimes getting up and down is hard, but on the upside it encourages my crippled behind to stretch in the mornings.

i'm not sure if this is weird but i close all the doors when i'm sleeping. open doors kinda freak me out.

i do get lonely a lot with working from home and living alone. i love living alone for work purposes - i get a lot more done than when i had roommates or when i'm with a partner. but i can go days without seeing anyone, which is really unhealthy for me. i try to get out as much as possible.

Nope, just living makes me weird:bolt:

Going organic!
 

Ditto :cigar2:

I love living alone. It's having my Mom live with me thats making me weird.

I don't think living alone makes Me weird , I was born this way :)
I have lived alone for some time , I believe it gave Me a chance to get to know Myself and grow as a person .. :)

I blame the strangeness that goes on in my house on the eccentric dog that I live with.....

The NY Times needs to get with the times - weird is the new normal and normal is the new wierd.

Personally, there's nothing new about any of this. Typically, if living alone, we have more freedom to act how we want and when we want to.

However, it's no different to someone who lives as part of a large family i.e. their behaviour will be very different in that family setting to when the rest of the family disappear and, similarly, their behaviour will typically be different when at work i.e. to a certain extent, we adjust our behaviour to varying degrees depending upon the social circumstances and expectations.

When living on your own, you're clearly less restricted in that sense. Is that weird? To me, it seems weird to want it any other way ....... as someone who works intense hours in a crowded city, has an active and rather intense life outside of work, I love to be able to shut the door to the world, to escape people and just be my natural grumpy and curmudgeonous self.

I actually don't find any of these behaviors to be weird. I do not live alone, and I do most of these things. I do not drink champagne in the shower at 8am. I don't like champagne, and I takes baths, not showers. I have, however, eaten many meals while soaking in the bathtub. I think it makes sense to wash your vegetables while in the shower since it saves water. Having them share a soaking in the bathtub with me, is much less appealing, I must say.

Weird is normal
Smooches,
Keri

Okay... Here's an observation. Right now I am staying at my best friend's place with another close friend and my best friend's mom. We all live alone and are all the creative sort. Throughout the day we've spent mainly together, we've all silently yet mutually agreed that for a half hour, here and there, we need to retreat and do something solitary. Play a game, take a nap, read, knit, whatever. I mentioned it and nobody thought it was weird, apologised, etc. I'm going to assume that it's because we take these lapses of solitude as our way of personally regrouping whilst thrown together.

Oh, and all of us, within 5 minutes of getting in the door, take our bras off.

Dressed in my "oh hell no only at home" wear, doing dishes with ipod in tow, my inner cuban/pole/?? dancer decided to come out. My cats think I am fantastic.

Kitchen is clean and the cats aren't talkin. EVER.

Make the bed? Who makes the bed????

Living alone...I am an expert. I've lived alone for most of my adult life, taking time out for the few live-in relationships I've had - most long-term. But I adapt very easily to going it alone - yet again.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to have a live-in partner, but I think again and reflect:

I would be expected to have a neat & clean house (I do for the most part - but am a lousy housekeeper, and only do it when I absolutely can't stand it anymore).

I would have to deal with eyerolls every time I wanted some wine - which is often. Hey, you're not paying for it, nor do I expect you to, so piss off!!

I'd have to consider someone else before making any decisions...I don't like that at all. I'm too used to pleasing me, and of course my puppy - but she's easy - for the most part.

I'd have to get out of bed to pass gas at night - which is often.

I'd have to close the bathroom door - something I never do, unless of course, I'm visiting (which is never), or have company, which is maybe once or twice a year.

Go out when I don't feel like it.

Control my impulse buying - I hate that one!

Have to consider someone else's opinion/desires when decorating - something that is anathema to me! Or for that matter, on anything!

...and the list goes on and on, but this will do for a start. Wow! What a surprise that I'm single! lol