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If you've been living alone for the past few years, odds are you've developed some habits that just might (to phrase it politely) strike the new person in your life as somewhat strange. Changing deeply-entrenched behaviour takes time and effort, so even if you're convinced the polar ice caps will melt before you meet someone, fall in love, get married and move in together, you might want to start the process by identifying these relationship-defying quirks:

1. 45-minute showers
There's nothing like steaming up the entire bathroom on a chilly spring morning... except, that is, when there's someone outside waiting to do his or her business. If you're a bloke, you can kiss these ablutionary marathons goodbye - and if you're a girly-girl, well, you'll have to cut them back to half an hour, tops.

2. Spoilt pets
Strict disciplinarian that you are, you're perfectly fine with Bonkers the dog chomping on toast from your breakfast plate every morning, and it's just so cute when Cleavis the cat curls up in the kitchen sink for a nap. Even if he's a pet lover, your boyfriend will be horrified. Show the beasts who's boss - if nothing else, it'll be good practice for your love life.

3. "Casual Sunday"
Dragging yourself out of bed at 2 p.m., trudging round the house all afternoon in your pyjamas, brushing your teeth over the six o'clock news and only taking a shower after dinner - unless your new fella is as laid-back (i.e., as much of big a slob) as you are, all that will soon be as extinct as the dirty knickers under your bed.

4. All TV, all the time
When you've been alone for a while, the telly can seem almost like a live-in companion - you may not even notice its intrusive blare 24 hours a day. Your real live-in companion, however, is likely to take heed. Be sure to turn it off occasionally, lest they put an axe through it first.

5. Biscuits in bed
As long as no one's watching, that mattress might as well be an enormous dinner table (lads are especially partial to this habit - it has something to do with getting yelled at by mum). Keep it to the kitchen, thank you, and while we're on the subject, try to clean your sheets once every few months, too.

6. Aimless whistling
This is an especially insidious habit, because most itinerant whistlers aren't even aware what they're doing - until, that is, they notice the people around them desperately trying to claw open windows and jump out. On the other hand, if your new squeeze is an incorrigible hummer, the two of you just might be made for each other.

7. Lack of matching crockery
This one's especially for the men - After a certain age, a man resigns himself to the fact that he doesn't need full dining-room service for four - one or two plates, an enormous bowl, and a knife and fork will do just fine (as well as make washing up a less onerous task). If you suspect a romance is in your future, invest in table settings for at least two. And if you think it'll be a really serious romance, go crazy and buy three or four.

I love this post! It's all so accurate too, and i'm guilty of most of these habits. is that what's wrong with my social life?

I am all of those apart from number two and It's doubtful I will be changing any of them any time soon.Take me as I am or walk on by.

If you've been living alone for the past few years, odds are you've developed some habits that just might (to phrase it politely) strike the new person in your life as somewhat strange.

Just get together with someone who's been single a while too, and it'll all feel like old home week.
The shower thing's taken care of by doing it together.

7. Lack of matching crockery
This one's especially for the men - After a certain age, a man resigns himself to the fact that he doesn't need full dining-room service for four - one or two plates, an enormous bowl, and a knife and fork will do just fine (as well as make washing up a less onerous task). If you suspect a romance is in your future, invest in table settings for at least two. And if you think it'll be a really serious romance, go crazy and buy three or four.

Nah, I rather suspect he is out from under the tyranny of some woman's matching doilies and likes it that way.

Can I change it slightly for couples? I think we should have some bad habits, too...

1. 45-minute showers
There's nothing like steaming up the entire bathroom on a chilly spring morning... just the two of us...

2. "Casual Sunday"
Dragging yourself out of bed at 2 p.m., after an all night sex marathon...for some greasy breakfast...is heaven!!

3. Biscuits in bed
Feeding each other in bed has created some messes....but...WTH...roll around it in..and shower afterwards!

4. Aimless whistling
We both sing, hum and whistle...does that count? We're used to it. It almost is a joyful sound to me now...


5. Lack of matching crockery
We used my dishes as his sons have his...His are now not matching and some are broken. This is what happens when two boys, one not quite twenty and the other just over twenty live together and have parties.

The sofa in the tv room is mine ALL MINE. This is where I go when I am lazy. I stretch out from one end to the other, I wrap myself in a not so clean quilt & watch tv, eat, drink wine & masturbate. When I date, the man always sits right in the middle & wraps up in my quilt. I want to scream "NO That's my sofa & my blankey". Instead I sit there prim & proper & wonder how he would react if I told him he was sitting on my favorite masturbation site & under the sofa was a big box of toys & lube. Yes, I know I need to break this habit, maybe tomorrow I will, maybe not.

Belle Lass wrote:Can I change it slightly for couples? I think we should have some bad habits, too...

No.
We singletons are way too busy sitting in a cess pit of our own making to read someone be so inclusive about how fulfilled they are with their lot that they have to demonstrate their unique status to there fellow posters.
Have you managed to copy his keys to putty or soap yet before he goes off shift?

awwwww.....
Just wanted to share life on the outside....once in awhile.
Happy cesspooling!