What is it like living alone?

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What is it like living alone?

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  1. MrWheels44 Avatar

    Being able to walk around naked all day is a plus.

  2. eweweverywhere Avatar

    It seems to be cool at the beginning, but trust me it will be hill someday and it won’t be cool again

  3. Queasy_Remote9283 Avatar

    Great! You are free to do whatever you want to do: sleep, cook, watch tv, etc.

  4. autumnalivy Avatar

    It’s called peace, coming back to things the way they you kept them, having enough privacy, no dramas, walking around naked and being FREE!

  5. OkAccess6128 Avatar

    Well I’ve got the work I love so it’s really good time for me, and like to be alone.

  6. VelvetMuse88 Avatar

    so much peace

  7. Hairy-Commercial-307 Avatar

    After dealing with a drunk idiot roommate for 2 years, it’s absolutely amazing!!

  8. toeringtease Avatar

    I love it. Can do what I want, when I want.

  9. Educational_Emu3763 Avatar

    It allows my to scale back all the stress I have encountered over the years. Post divorce i look at my life and remember certain small moments that made a difference,

    It’s certainly an adjustment, but like the commenters below, I appreciate the peace.

  10. RosePetalFall Avatar

    I loved it.

    Three years later, I hate it.

    I actually want to die. (:

    I will never take advantage of living with someone ever again. I can’t wait until my partner and I can live together. Id be so much better off socially and financially if I didn’t convince myself this was a good idea. And everything is terrifying alone when stuff goes wrong.

  11. Puzzled_Bag9269 Avatar

    Getting girls to room as soon you get them without any problem 😀

  12. ReasonableAd3165 Avatar

    Mostly peaceful, free, pleasant. But sometimes lonely, boring, sad

  13. SomethinSaid Avatar

    Peace but sometimes your mind plays tricks on you after living with people for 17 years

  14. -_-Orange Avatar

    It’s alright. 

    You do what you want, when you want. It can be pretty quiet, and lonely sometimes. If you’re sick or injured, you gotta take care of yourself. Same with cleaning, cooking, other chores and errands, it’s all you. 

    Not the best way to live, not the worst either. 

  15. Even-Leg375 Avatar

    Living alone with other people is the best!

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  17. XIX9508 Avatar

    Pure bliss but you have to be careful not to isolate yourself too much. I’ve been living alone for 10years and the feeling you get coming home from work and it’s pure silence/peace never gets old.

  18. jimmyfredd10 Avatar

    You’ll realise that you haven’t spoken for hours so you move your jaw.

  19. pontius_didymus Avatar

    Unconditional calm and peace, the only that needs to be tamed is your mind. Even bigger bliss if you’re financially independent, takes you out of 90% of the unwanted situations and/or people you may encounter!

  20. Kiwi-Latter Avatar

    For me it was wonderful.

  21. Rm1512 Avatar

    Well its what you make of it. There will be day where you’ll come home and you’ll feel completly alone. But its your decision if you call that loneliness or peace

  22. Ancient-Ninja4514 Avatar

    It’s so good. Living with a roommate is something I will never do in my life again

  23. boatgal1 Avatar

    I wouldn’t want to ever . It would be so lonely and depressing

  24. jujubes44 Avatar

    nice, im starting to glorify those days

  25. Constant_Nobody4607 Avatar

    I’m divorced three times; so I decided to live alone almost 20 years ago. And they have been my best years.

  26. CaleyB75 Avatar

    Many of my happiest years were spent with a place to myself. I used my free time as I wanted to.

  27. jellystawbe Avatar

    I don’t live alone but am left alone for long periods of time quite frequently.

    Doctor wanted me to start monitoring my blood pressure at home because it was consistently coming up a bit elevated. About a week after this started, my roommate left for a couple of weeks. The very first night, my BP came in completely normal. I took multiple readings to confirm and my readings all stayed perfect the entire time they were gone.

    I’d rather live alone and bear 100% of the responsibilities rather than agree to share them, and then still be stuck with 100% of the responsibilities and be disappointed and stressed about it daily.

  28. spirit_cat83 Avatar

    I would have loved to have tried it. I’ve never lived alone. I imagine it to be bliss 😂

  29. Needy-Train Avatar

    Free and naked

  30. AsusStrixUser Avatar

    Whenever you think it’s too hard to cope with, you dream someone invading your life and not caring your wants and needs, you give up thinking negatively and enjoy.

  31. jaiwolv Avatar

    Peaceful. You can do anything you want, and anytime.

  32. PositiveRainCloud Avatar

    Peaceful knowing that no matter what the day throws at you, you get to go home at the end of the day shut the door behind you, turn your phone off and answer to no one. House stays clean when you clean it, food never randomly disappears from your fridge or cupboards, and you get to decorate the place exactly how you like.

    I bought a movie projector recently so turned my bedroom into a mini cinema room for watching movies in the evening. I love it.

  33. Scuh Avatar

    Freeing.

    You know food will still be there. You can walk around naked whenever you want. Not have to wait for someone who’s in the toilet or shower.

  34. ManicPixieDreamHag Avatar

    The best. Everything where you left it. Keep your own hours. My leftovers were mine. Listen to what music I wanted any time of day or night. No audience for my bad days. Decorate exactly how you want. No one accidentally waking you up. You can really discover yourself. But also, anything that needs to get done, you need to do it. No one is coming to save you. Socializing has to be a conscious choice to avoid isolation. I eventually got into a great relationship and love living with my partner but I cherish those years and think everyone should live alone for a while if they can.

  35. 100xdakshcodes Avatar

    quite peaceful, focused

  36. Quiet-Cookie6108 Avatar

    An addictive drug! Once you get it its really hard to leave it.

  37. Traditional_Law_3342 Avatar

    Amazing minus my upstairs neighbor who bangs on the floors, I keep record of them though 

  38. Dazzling-Toe-4955 Avatar

    Brilliant I live with my partner but we are both pretty independent people so we don’t really get on each others nerves.

  39. Serious-Put6732 Avatar

    Oh my god the quiet – good old days 😂

  40. Only_me_84 Avatar

    Heaven ❤️

  41. crime-fighter Avatar

    So many people saying that they can be naked lol.

    When I first moved out on my own, I sat on the couch naked and just seeing my cock out while drinking a brew and watching the game was weird. I went and put on boxers and that’s the most naked I’ll get lol

  42. Glitters_2009 Avatar

    Freedom and PEACE

  43. Mindless_Road_2045 Avatar

    Like a free pizza at the right temp to not burn your mouth and it’s all yours. Or a fuzzy box of puppies! Just happiness!

  44. Valor_Sebiri Avatar

    It has its ups and downs. The freedom to whatever the hell you want anytime you want VS having to do everything by yourself. I lived alone for 3 years and it had it’s bad moments like when the chimney caught on fire or the bathroom flooded or when I slipped on a pool of water in the kitchen and fell HARD on my back, my head narrowly missing the edge of a metal table. But then the flipside waking up at 3am to play videogames and listen to nine inch nails really loud if I wanted to. Yes, there was dancing around naked.

    I don’t live alone anymore but I enjoyed it when I did. It was a good experience but ultimately not something I would personally want forever.

  45. hasibk01 Avatar

    Currently living alone. Not good.

  46. weirdowszx Avatar

    Pros:
    Peaceful, nobody touches your shit, as many have mentioned you can be butt-naked.
    Cons:
    Can be lonely, chores can be a slag

  47. Will_V_S Avatar

    I used to live alone. Sometimes, I would get lonely. An elderly man died in my building, and his body was discovered a week later after a horrible smell and flies were coming from his window. My neighbours now check up on each other if a neighbour hasn’t gone outside.

    I liked that I didn’t have somebody else’s mess to clean up.

    It was freeing to be able to exercise in my underwear while watching TV.

    I didn’t have to close doors inside my place.

    I liked that I could put my stuff anywhere, and it would still be there when I needed it.

    A few times, I injured myself really badly. I cried because I needed help and I couldn’t get to my phone.

    When I first moved in, I was paranoid someone might break in while I’m asleep. So I put a hammer under my pillow and a knife under my mattress.

  48. Lonely-Technology856 Avatar

    Aaaaahhh this is a dream. Sobrang nakakahappy mabasa comments dito

  49. ildadof3 Avatar

    I did love living alone for 3 diff stints for total of about 6 of my 58yrs. It was nice and i def enjoyed it more in my older stint as i had more money to do better and cooler hobbies. The issue tho is we’re den animals. People need people. I’ve observed that ppl who live too long solo, become weird as they are left to their own devices. Not all but seen it play out. They just don’t have someone who says,’you sure about that?’…to questionable habits. idk. Just $0.02

  50. dodadoler Avatar

    Peaceful but kinda messy

  51. earporches Avatar

    I like not having to socialize unless I feel like it and being able to choose all the paint colors, furnishings, etc but I live in a big apartment building and actually enjoy hearing other people going about their lives, moving around, even making noise sometimes. It’s nice to have people around and not have to interact with them. For the same reason I also enjoy working on my laptop in cafés.

  52. Grouchy-Toe2119 Avatar

    it really depends on the circumstances.

    for me I lost my wife of 30 years to cancer in November of 2024.
    living alone is awful. the silence is deafening. cooking for one is the worst. most days I eat cereal or a sandwich.

  53. Koroku_Gaming Avatar

    I got to live on my own once when I was studying at uni (had a student studio room with my own bathroom and shower). For me it was…

    AMAZING.

    I could study my uni topic, go to lectures, learn guitar, a new language, make YouTube videos, workout daily, livestream games and still have enough time left over to socialise or do whatever I wanted. The place was also always clean and organised.

    Made me realise how much living with others and not being captain of the household holds me back in many ways. I’m so time poor living with others having to tidy up after them all the time and doing other tasks for them when they need help. Living on my own it’s like my whole life opened up in an amazing way and I realised how capable I am if I have the opportunity to be.

    That’s not to say that living with others can’t be better than living alone, it totally can be as sharing tasks between yourself and others should technically enable you all to have more free time, I’ve just never had it pan out that way personally. I could imagine that if I were in a house with like minded people when it comes to load sharing tasks in the household then it’d be even better than living alone.

    But yeah, I like living alone as it’s better than any alternative I’ve come across so far. my dream is to have my own place one day.

  54. pixietrue1 Avatar

    Amazing. At times stressful (you are the one responsible for fixing everything

  55. Turbulent-Tear7972 Avatar

    Living alone means freedom.

  56. CaptCojones Avatar

    It has its pros and cons. Biggest advantage is, that you can do whatever the f you want. no one is going to tell you to do the dishes or clean your room. It gives you the freedom to express yourself more and do your own thing.

    The very same thing can become a burden though. If you want stuff to be done, you have to do it yourself or have to pay for it. Also its more expensive compared to sharing your appartment with family or friends. Not only because you can split utility and rent, but also you can plan your groceries together. If you live alone, you are forced to eat the same dish multiple days or freeze that stuff because the size of grocery items.

    personally, i am happy to live alone, but I won’t pretend it doesn’t have downsides

  57. reillan Avatar

    y’all…

    How many of you who are married are NOT letting your spouse see you naked except for sex?

    That’s so weird to me. My spouse and I see each other naked constantly. It’s not a big deal.

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  59. oOo-Yannick-oOo Avatar

    Bliss. I think I have finally reached perfection. I can enjoy reading and gaming in peace, good music… That is all I ever wanted from life so I feel like I have been blessed.

  60. nancysweetyq Avatar

    more responsibility and at the same time less responsibility in different moments. complete freedom, only you manage your personal space

  61. krispykesk Avatar

    Coming home to peace and quiet will never get old.

  62. SubjectPhoto322 Avatar

    Either you gonna build yourself way different than you are right now or you gonna destroy yourself completely.

  63. mttamjan Avatar

    I love it! I can engage with people on my own terms. I easily overwhelmed and stimulated by too many
    people. I need time alone to recharge.

  64. Imdead_likedead Avatar

    U start talking to yourself, hallucinating then you just die

  65. Several_Raspberry582 Avatar

    I have never personally done so but I know a lot of my friends found it lonely I’m alone without my partner sometime for 5 days and injured so not working or going out much now I find myself a bit lonely and isolated sometimes but it’s nice I think it’s important to have a balance between being alone and with others even socially if you don’t live with anyone

  66. NecessaryWeather4275 Avatar

    Better than with him 🫶

  67. MultiBitcoinaire21 Avatar

    Your food in the fridge doesn’t magically disappear

  68. AmbitiousReaction168 Avatar

    Fun and boring at the same time.

    Fun because you can do pretty much anything you want. There’s no one to comment on what you’re doing or where you’re going. Want to play videogames until 3am? No problem.

    Boring because you have no one share your life with upon coming home.

    Pros and cons basically. Some will love it, others won’t.

  69. NecessaryWeather4275 Avatar

    Better than with him 🫶

  70. Laminated_Squirrel Avatar

    I loved it, I lived alone from early 2008 to mid 2022. Having the freedom to just do whatever and whenever was lovely. Despite being in relationships during some of that time, we never lived together.

    I do live with my husband now, which I adore, but I do sometimes miss being alone lol

  71. bloopberrypancake Avatar

    THE FUCKING BEST!

  72. Zackerz0891 Avatar

    It’s not too bad

  73. LoneStarMDW2013 Avatar

    It’s quiet, peaceful and my place always stays clean. I absolutely love it. I can do what I want when I want and if I want to go to bed early I can. In answer to nobody. Wouldn’t change it for anything.

  74. icaredoyoutho Avatar

    I prefer having roommates. Cause otherwise it keeps me in the comfort zone 24/7.

  75. GamerN8 Avatar

    Has its ups and downs for sure. Great for a while but get lonely 🙁. Then around people you get annoyed lol. It’s a no win.

  76. Dragon2730 Avatar

    You don’t truly appreciate the peace and complete freedom to do whatever you want unless you’ve had to live with other people. I love living alone.