Have you lived alone?

Not me. I’m afraid of ghosts!

@Quagmire I was about to say that! Agreed with @Quagmire. I don’t think I’ll ever live alone (I’m a big winnie when it comes to ghosts). I’m more the kind of person that has a lot of friends, all living under the same roof.

I live alone and have since being divorced 10 years ago. I like living alone, but get lonesome at times. I can entertain myself, I don’t mind eating alone and really kind of like that I can come and go as I please without answering to anyone. I have friends and family, but they are not always available to do things when I want to do them, so I often shop or travel alone. I am the person everyone else calls when they want to do something on the spur of the moment because they know I always will go with them. All that being said, I would still like to find someone special to have in my life.

Hmm, this might depend a lot on the persons personality. Some people crave social outtings and well, other people. While others can do just fine with out them. Some people feel lost and uncomfortable doing anything with out another person there, who knows why. maybe they are extroverted, where as an introvert will prefer solitude over company.

Personally, I enjoy solitude more than anything. I crave to be left alone by people. But, im sure some people will want to have the company of a loved one there to talk to and express their emotions to. If no ones there, they become lonely of course. Sometimes, lonlyless gives people too much time to think negatively, as did the man who shot up that gym not too long ago. His loneliness drove him to conjure a plot to kill others. He craved a younger woman but t seemed he had the ability to live alone. So honestly, I prefer to be alone from people, even while shopping and eating, but I do want to live with some one I love… my boyfriend for example! :D A husband or wife for others :)

I haven’t, and I probably never will. When I move out of my parents’ house, I’ll be moving in with my babe.

No. I have a couple other personalities living in my head.

I lived alone for about 2 years. My biggest fear was having a heart attack or stroke or something and no one finding my corpse until it starts rotting. But it wasn’t a big enough fear to make me find an apartment with a roommate I didn’t know. I stopped living alone when a friend and I decided to find a 2-BR apartment and split costs, for purely financial reasons.

Other than those two years, I lived with family, then in a dorm with fellow students, then in an off-campus apartment with friends. Then the 2 years living alone. And with a friend/roommate ever since.

I did not then, and do not now, have any problem going to a restaurant, movie theatre, or vacation by myself.

Tons of times. I actually prefer it since I am a huge slob. I actually moved out of a house with roommates into a RV in the backyard to get away from people.

I seperated from my wife recently (more or less; I still see her everyday almost) and this is the first time in my life I’ve ever lived alone (1 neurotic cat). I love it. I can cook what I want without worrying about who doesn’t like what, I can sleep late (if I could) because no one is making noise, and a bunch of other stuff that I don’t have to worry about anymore.

i’ve always lived alone with my little sister…....my parents used to be abroad with my other siblings….gosh that tym was really hard for me…but now we all live together happily…except there’s still something missing…:’(

Does the whole three years I was in the Marines count?

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I had my own apartment for two years on the UWS of Manhattan and loved it, but I couldn’t afford it. I have roommates at the moment, but I’m looking for something that will get me enough $ to move out. I like my roomies very much, but it’s time to have my own place again.

No, I haven’t. I’ve lived with my family up until now and I’ll be living in a dorm at Stanford with another person for the next year. Not sure about after that, though.

I’ve never lived alone, but I think I’d like it. I like spending time alone at home. In fact, I’m sometimes kind of annoyed when I get invited out, because my solitude is disturbed. I just like doing things by myself, reading, internet-ing, watching DVDs, etc. I’d be perfectly content to spend all my free time alone. One thing I’d never do is go out by myself. I’d just feel weird doing that. When I go out to parties and stuff, I only do it because I’m expected to. I seldom really want to go, cause I usually just feel awkward and out of place. But going out with friends every now and then is still fun and probably more healthy… haha

I like eating alone sometimes, but I’ll answer anyway.

I *love( living alone and have been doing it for almost 5 years now. It’s probably going to end in about two months, and there are some parts of it I’m really going to miss.

I like having my own space to decorate and utilize as I chose. I really like not having to tend to anyone else’s needs (physical or emotional) when I get home from work. I like not having to wait to use the shower. I like not washing dishes when I don’t feel like it. I like not sharing shower space. I like having silence when I want to. I like playing whatever music I want as loud as I want (I’m blessed with a building with thick walls). I like watching crappy TV shows. I like walking around naked. I like smoking in my bathroom without it bothering anyone. I like that after being out I can have people crash at my place without anyone caring. My home is my private, safe haven and I love that it’s all mine.

My boyfriend, who I’ll be moving in with, is very much the same way. We joke that we’d be better off as neighbors. Haha, I hope.

Even when I’ve lived with people (roomies or partners) I always tried to schedule myself to be home when no one else was for at least a few hours a week.

There was only time living alone kinda sucked- I had my own dorm room my second semester in college. My roomie had dropped out of school, and the university just never moved anyone else in. I was quite depressed that year. Having a private room was a blessing in that I could sit around and be depressed without having someone else’s emotions about it involved. But it was also very much a curse in that there was no one to help drag me out.

I lived alone for 5 years. I didn’t mind eating alone, or being alone so much.
The only times it was really hard was when I got Mono, and when I came down with Hepatitus A. I was sick for weeks, and no one was around to help me. When you don’t have the energy to do dishes, and you barf all the time, it’s pretty sad.

Briefly (3yrs) before getting married but not since then.

No, I never have lived alone. I had roommates at college, I have always lived with parents, roommates or husbands ever since I was born.

Yes, I lived alone for 4 years after I was divorced, with visits from my kids on designated time frames. I changed my entire life in that period, refocused on my priorities, and found that the world did not revolve around making money, working to the extreme, and not having hobbies. I learned that if you don’t do the things you want now, at this moment, and not apologize for it, you will never really enjoy the amazing realities that life offers. I found great strength in my own company, and became more creative, experimental than I ever did while living with a number of people. To this day I enjoy the energy that being alone offers, and believe that if you truly love yourself, are confident, and love life, being alone is just another day of opportunity.

Yes, a couple of times. I loved it.

Oddly enough, it was when I was living alone that I was most uncomfortable going out to a restaurant by myself. I felt like it was a big flashing sign over my head making it obvious to everyone that I was by myself in other areas of my life as well. (I wasn’t in a relationship either time. Once because I left my husband and the other time because I chose not to date for 2 years.)

Yes. I lived alone two years in Chicago in a great apartment. Then I moved to Florida for a year. But you’re never really alone in Florida because humidity and bad taste are ghosts that haunt you from every angle. I’ve briefly moved back with my folks in Philadelphia now, but i’ll be back out on my own come September 1st.

I lived along for about 16 years. I was good at it. I enjoy my own company and that of my dogs.

I am not as good at living with other adult humans. They are too untrainable.

@rooeytoo <g>

I live alone and have done for nearly 2 years most of the time i love it…actually i really only feel lonely when i am around other people..couples especially as i feel as though i am somehow missing out but when i stop think about it for a while i am really quite content its just a grass is greener type thing

I am 45. I went from living with friends, to 20 years with my now Ex wife, to 2 years with my now ex girl friend.
Have lived the past year alone. Ok I do have my dog.
It does have its advantages. But for the most part… I do not like it.