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Do You Have What it Takes to Live Alone?

Most would collapse from the lack of distractions, and escape the societal norm subconsciously gives you.

Chris Freyler
3 min readFeb 8, 2025
Photo by Brandi Alexandra on Unsplash

There comes a time living alone, being alone, lonely and all that jazz run its course. It gets old, just like everything else.

Those who decide to be alone, by choice, probably have a lot going on in their life. They have been hurt so badly they look at it as their only option, or they won’t do the work on themselves to attract the right partner.

Career, family, house, retirement is embedded in our psyche at a very early age

I’m not here to give advice on how to find the “right” partner, because I’m horrible at picking them. I have some serious shit I need to fix in myself.

Being alone after years of being in relationships is nice, but only temporarily for me. Yea, it’s nice watching what you want, leaving a shirt, or pair of pant out for the next morning hanging on the chair, leaving a little mess in the kitchen, coming and going as you like, eating what you want, etc, but those are all superficial things.

If you find the right person there will be a balance when you live together. I’ve never had what most would call a…

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Chris Freyler
Chris Freyler

Written by Chris Freyler

Mistake Maker Extraordinaire .Writing from a place I don’t understand at times. I write to help myself, in return hope it helps you. Just another Quora guy.

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