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Originally posted by Wine&SilverBlue
what constitutes "living together" ? do you mean really sharing a house and living together 24/7, or does sleeping over the other's place often count too? i'm still in college and my bf sleeps over my dorm a few times/week and when we lived on the same floor last yr, he was over all the time... i know his quirks and habits, but we also had our own rooms and our own space... just a thought
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I would say undergrad shacking
IS NOT living together. If you have a fight, if finals come around and things get too stressful, you can retreat back into your corners. If things get rough, you can still (literally) run home. You aren't sharing resources (going Dutch at dinner doesn't count) or relying on each other for any real aspect of life. I would say living together 24/7, with real rent (not the dorms!) being paid and real responsibilities being shared (doing laundry in the dorm basement doesn't count either). After really living with someone and doing the dorm shack, I'd say that the dorm shack doesn't count. It's fun. It's like...playing house.
That said...
Yes. I have lived with Mr. Munch. Neither of us was in school, and we were both working. The only reason we're not living together now is because I'm in graduate school and I only qualified for singles' housing. He's moving here in the summer, so I'm looking for one bedrooms now.
Yes, it worked out very well. It wasn't always easy, but it made us stronger and happier as a unit.