From Bachelor Pad to Love Nest Making It Work
Losing your castle can either be really great or really traumatic depending on how ready you are for whats ahead. The transition from bachelor pad to love nest has been and can be survived with the proper planning and understanding. If you are ready for the eventual changes and proactive in their implementation the experience promises to be a positive one. On the other hand if you ignore the needs of your new roommate and disaster looms ahead. It should be noted at this point that its essential that you get along. If you dont get along living apart it probably wont get any better once youre locked in together everyday.
The concept you will have to get used to the most is that of sharing. Sharing space, sharing meals, sharing the remote, sharing duties and sharing decisions on everything. Hopefully since youve decided to move in together due diligence has been used in making this decision. Its tough for anybody to go from King of the Castle to a 50/50 partner just like that. Whats more, those numbers might not be entirely accurate. Using the tie goes to the runner theorem its sometimes more like 51/49 for...