To many, living alone seems ideal: You get your own personal space, you can finally decorate your home or apartment however you want and the best part? You have absolutely nobody to answer to when you get home at whatever time your little heart desires.
But, while all that seems fine and dandy, you don’t really realize the struggles that come with living alone. Some of them include:
1. Dinner is never served. It has to be prepared, cooked and served by YOU.
2. Then you’ll sit at the dinner table by yourself, or maybe in your bed or on the couch with a snack tray.
3. And once all of that is done, you have to wash the dishes, whether you wash them right then and there or after three weeks of having them stacked in the sink.
4. There’s no one to complain to when you get home from school or work. I guess you can complain over the phone to someone, but it’s just not the same as walking into your house and absolutely exploding on someone.
5. When you hear noises in the middle of the night, you’re sh*t out of luck.
6. A back scratcher just isn’t sufficient enough when you have that one itch in the dead center of your back.
7. The zipper that starts at your lower back and goes up becomes impossible to zip. They’ll always be about an inch or two that’s unzipped because you just can’t bend your arms the way they need to be to get to the top.
8. Living alone calls for many lonely nights.
9. Every time you get out the shower you have to creepily walk around and call out random names to make sure no intruders came in while you weren’t paying attention.
10. When you’re locked out…well, you’re locked out. Living alone makes it that much harder trying to get in.
11. When you’re sick, you have no one to make you soup, cuddle with, or complain to.
12. You can’t blame anyone for the mess in your house because you’re the one who made it.
13. You take on the man’s role of the house, too, like taking out the trash.
14. The biggest bummer is having no one to split the rent with.
15. There’s no one at home to call to feed your starving cat that’s been waiting for food for four hours already…
16. By the way, how do you successfully food shop for one person?
17. When you accidentally oversleep, there’s no one there to wake your a$$ up!
18. You’ll truly understand the meaning of the words “bored AF.”
19. Cleaning can be done on your own terms.
20. But the best part of living alone is not having to deal with anyone and their shenanigans!
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