Living Alone VERSUS With Someone

My post has very little to do with an actual marriage although, being married is at the heart of living together.  What do I mean by that?

When two people live together, married or not, they must find a way to deal with or accept those traits that are disliked or frowned upon.

When two people live together, unmarried, the likelihood that the male will help out more around the house is increased because they are, in essence, roommates.  Roommates share duties and responsibilities is typically the norm or you find another roommate.

When a couple is married, the male has a tendency to do the outside work while the female does the inside work.  However, most outside work is mowing the lawn, weed eating, and lawn maintenance, deck painting, and pressure washing house.

If you put the eagle eye on this, outside maintenance is not done daily or weekly throughout the year like inside work is done...  hence, the wife is always left with having to do more work.

But work is not the only issue with living or not living together.

Wives tend to bitch more at their lazy husbands either for not doing this or that but also for how they are dressed and/or take care of themselves.  Husbands typically don't give a shit about their appearance whether they are going out or staying at home.

Wives always seem to be caring about their appearance as if they are going on a date everyday even on the weekends, although the makeup is usually not put on as heavily.

As a result of being bitched at, husband do one or more of the following:

• go hunting or fishing
• take up golf
• go drinking with the guys
• play poker with the guys
• volunteer somewhere
• get a second job
• spend more time outside

Now, there are some advantages to being married versus not being married:

• you are always with someone
• you are always doing things together
• you have someone to sleep next to
• you combine incomes
• you make decisions together
• you are cared for when sick
• you are very seldom lonely

HOWEVER...

I would suspect that most of the people who live alone, do so because they want to and they don't need or want another person sharing their life all the time.

I suspect that living alone is also cheaper even with combined income.

But, for those who got divorced, living alone can be a nightmare at times, living the divorcee bitter, angry, with no desire to ever trust again.

It is for this reason, I believe, that most couples stay married whether they want to stay married or not, falsely influencing the results of living together.