• can@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I can still freely do most of these. This post made me appreciate my girlfriend.

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        1 year ago

        Or maybe just let people who choose to live alone have their thing without making it about you and your different choices?

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          1 year ago

          We’re discussing “highly underrated advantages” not actually being unique to people who live alone.

          So yeah I can let them think only single people have those freedoms if you like. I’m responding to someone who is making the same point as me.

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          Meh. I live alone and can tell you from a biological standpoint it’s not healthy. People have to be around others because we are hardwired for it. Loneliness is more destructive than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, and that’s a hardwired consequence you can’t get around with your worldview and moral outlook. Those who live alone live shorter lives on average.

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            Yup, people live alone and think it’s fine but they don’t realize that it’s making their mental health sooooo much worse than i could be if they had people around them.

            My ideal is to live in a dorm-style area, where you have a minimal apartment to be alone in and then most other things are communal so it’s easy to balance the need for privacy with the need for human contact.

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      Right? The only one that doesn’t really apply is cooking for 1, but I like cooking and cooking for 2 is often the same amount of effort.