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How odd...in my area, there have been reports of more people taking on boarders and roommates and adults living with their parents in the past few years.
Many communities have maximum unrelated occupancy ordinances which often make it illegal to take in borders or roommates.
Beware the NIMBYs who would love to turn you in for overoccupqncy.
How is this not a social disaster in the making? Don't get me wrong: there is nothing inherently immoral or evil about being single or living alone. There have always been those called to the single life and there always will be. The problem is that society cannot handle certain exceptions becoming the rule. When people are living alone due to an absence of love and commitment in their lives, whether chosen or unchosen, we have a problem.
Apparently that's how it will end - in a loveless society, in which the masses demand that government accommodate our loveless lives, and that government "fix" what love has neglected. Furthermore it will be demanded that government remove any visible reminders of what love ought to have done to avoid pricking our dying consciences.
I can most certainly see the appeal. LIving alone means that the only person to nag you is yourself. o.o
Yep. I live with my boyfriend and it's nice to have someone, but if my comings and goings deviate ever so slightly from my usual routine, I get the 3rd degree and all these false accusations from 'the warden' just because I live under his roof.
He acts butthurt because I pay more attention to my cat, but I tell him that it's because she never nags me.
I've only lived alone for a few very short periods of time. As a woman who hasn't been all that independent for such a long time, I think I'd feel quite vulnerable living alone. Females living alone tend to be targeted more for stalkers, burglars, peeping Toms, prowlers, rapists, etc.
"More people live alone now than at any other time in history. In prosperous American cities — Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Minneapolis — 40 percent or more of all households contain a single occupant. In Manhattan and in Washington, nearly one in two households are occupied by a single person. Today five million people in the United States between ages 18 and 34 live alone, 10 times more than in 1950. But the largest number of single people are middle-aged; 15 million people between ages 35 and 64 live alone."
How is this not a social disaster in the making? Don't get me wrong: there is nothing inherently immoral or evil about being single or living alone. There have always been those called to the single life and there always will be. The problem is that society cannot handle certain exceptions becoming the rule. When people are living alone due to an absence of love and commitment in their lives, whether chosen or unchosen, we have a problem.
Apparently that's how it will end - in a loveless society, in which the masses demand that government accommodate our loveless lives, and that government "fix" what love has neglected. Furthermore it will be demanded that government remove any visible reminders of what love ought to have done to avoid pricking our dying consciences.
Oh please! Let the kids fly the nest already and enough with the clinging and whining.
"More people live alone now than at any other time in history. In prosperous American cities — Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Minneapolis — 40 percent or more of all households contain a single occupant. In Manhattan and in Washington, nearly one in two households are occupied by a single person. Today five million people in the United States between ages 18 and 34 live alone, 10 times more than in 1950. But the largest number of single people are middle-aged; 15 million people between ages 35 and 64 live alone."
How is this not a social disaster in the making? Don't get me wrong: there is nothing inherently immoral or evil about being single or living alone. There have always been those called to the single life and there always will be. The problem is that society cannot handle certain exceptions becoming the rule. When people are living alone due to an absence of love and commitment in their lives, whether chosen or unchosen, we have a problem.
Apparently that's how it will end - in a loveless society, in which the masses demand that government accommodate our loveless lives, and that government "fix" what love has neglected. Furthermore it will be demanded that government remove any visible reminders of what love ought to have done to avoid pricking our dying consciences.
This can be turned into a positive in one paragraph;
" Woman are 1 million times more self-sufficient/independent than in 1950-not dependent on a man to "get by" not compromise her dignity for her kids- many men back then drank alot-beat the hell out of the wife-thier was a stigma of single woman with kids, etc, and domestic abuse- often was looked the other way. You can be more alone in a relationship, than outside of one.
so, yes divorce rates lead to more adults being single/independent-but also can reclaim dignity and self-respect.
also, alone doesnt mean lonely, it means independence/freedom
the computer is a marvelous invention, it's a portal to the world, also, you can connect to soooooooooooo many people using a computer , compared to years ago.
People who live alone have fewer opportunities to love. They must must go out of their way to give of themselves. Their tolerance of others is challenged less frequently. They can more easily avoid demands on their time and energy. Etc.
So?
I don't see anything wrong with a person doing what they want....isn't this a free country????
Are you proposing punishing people who want to live alone?
Are you proposing forcing people into communes?
Are proposing taking away their homes or forcing them to have others live with them?
Yep. I live with my boyfriend and it's nice to have someone, but if my comings and goings deviate ever so slightly from my usual routine, I get the 3rd degree and all these false accusations from 'the warden' just because I live under his roof.
He acts butthurt because I pay more attention to my cat, but I tell him that it's because she never nags me.
You are being abused and don't know it.
The domination, questions and control will escalate ....and your fear of burglars, stalkers and rapists will change to fear of the one you're living with.
seek help.....and spare me the excuses that will spring to your lips the second you hear anyone criticize your "warden"....
The domination, questions and control will escalate ....and your fear of burglars, stalkers and rapists will change to fear of the one you're living with.
seek help.....and spare me the excuses that will spring to your lips the second you hear anyone criticize your "warden"....
Excellent advice!
I lived with that type of man for 15 years; spent the last five of those years trying to get away without being murdered by him...
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