Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!silber From: silber@lasspvax.UUCP (Jeffrey Silber) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Living Alone Message-ID: <478@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 10:14:37 EDT Article-I.D.: lasspvax.478 Posted: Fri Aug 23 10:14:37 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:27:31 EDT Reply-To: silber@lasspvax.UUCP (Jeffrey Silber) Organization: LASSP, Cornell University Lines: 15 [] Over the years of my life I have lived with my family, lived in a dorm (really a larger family), lived with friends, lived with my wife, lived alone, lived with a SO, and now live alone. Living alone has the advantages of being on my own schedule, etc., but it has (for me) several major disadvantages. Among these are: additional expense, additional work (cleaning, shopping), disinclin- ation to cook for one, and the lack of a "built-in emotional support-system". I really do like having my own apartment, but at times I ponder the emotional -physical-financial cost. I certainly do not feel that living alone is "unnatural," but it definitely has its unpleasantries.