Have you ever lived alone?

I did for a couple of years after college and before I got married. I liked it.

I did for my senior year of college. I thought it was my only chance to live alone. But after dh and I married (a month after college), he was deployed a lot. Those first few years, he was gone more than he was home.

I liked the freedom to come and go as I pleased, but it gets lonely after s whole. It was better after we got a dog—I had a lot of time to train her and learned a lot about dog training in those early years.

I left home at 17. Lived in a dorm in college and then with roommates. Eventually, I sublet an apartment in NYC, then got my own and then again in California. I liked living alone and was never lonely or bored. I cooked most of my meals, ate at my small table and did my thing. Now I live in a three-ring circus and have a cattle dog that supervises my every breath.

No. I've never even spent a single night alone.

Yes. I’ve lived alone several times in my life - for 4 years in my early 30s, then again for a couple of years around 39/40 and I’m currently living alone and have been for the last 6 years. I’m an introvert and enjoy having my own space (and am very grateful I don’t have to have housemates for financial reasons etc).

ETA I don’t feel lonely and have plenty of people contact at work during the week. 

No. I’ve always had family, roommates, a husband and/or kids. I’ve never lived by myself.

I’ll admit I’ve fantasized about acquiring my own little vintage Airstream trailer and taking off for parts unknown, on my own, but I’m too damn responsible for that .

I can't believe all the people who haven't! I lived alone for a year after i split with a BF, then I stayed with my parents while I had cancer treatment, and as soon as I was well enough I went straight back to my own place. Then I lived alone for a couple of years before meeting my current BF, and we have plans to stay together 😍.

BF's mum is a very independent person who has lived alone for 20 years. I am not THAT comfortable on my own, but I certainly learned a lot about myself. I am much happier with my BF, but I'd rather live alone than with the wrong person.

I lived by myself in an apartment near my college campus in a city 4 hours from my parents' house for 8 months when I was 18. My roommate started partying hard from day one and was so out of control that her dad yanked her out of the apartment and into the freshman dorms where there was a curfew, before mid terms.

I moved back to my parents' house that summer when I transferred to a different school, but moved out again into my own apartment in the same city a year and a half later (would have been sooner but it took me that long to earn and save enough to become independent). And I lived there in that little apartment by myself until I was 27 and got engaged to my husband. Man I loved it there, it was in the middle of the city in a really eclectic and fun neighborhood that was just sketchy enough to be an adventure but not so sketchy that I was afraid to come home in the wee hours of the morning.

Yes. I lived alone for four years when I was in the Peace Corps in Africa. However, that was a fishbowl experience so I was always on show.   But I did have my own little house and could shut the door behind me. 

I also live alone when I moved to Washington, DC to start graduate school after Peace Corps. I had a nice efficiency-type apartment in a nice section of DC. I was going to school almost full-time and working full time and it was SO lovely to come home and shut my door behind me and not have to talk to a single person. After I graduated I kept that apartment until I got married. That was the end of my blissfully peaceful evenings. 

I do love my family but when both kids were away and dh travelled it was a lovely two-week period of being alone.

Before I met dh, it was just me in my house every other week. But before kids, no. The closest was being the only one in my dorm room after my roommate moved out an apartment during my freshman year. However, I shared a bathroom with two other girls so I don't think that really counts.

Do cats count?

I lived alone when my only child moved out at 20. She came home a few years later, then was off on her own again after about two years. I've lived alone now for about thirteen years. After such a long time, I don't think I could live with another human.

Over the course of those years, I have had from one to four cats at various times.

I did for a couple of months. I didn't hate it

I've lived alone for 30 years. All of my adult life except for a year I shared an apartment with my sister.

I also can't believe how many people have never lived alone.