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CibbuanoTen Tips for Surviving Living with Your Girlfriend
August 29th 2006 00:25
1) When you’re finished… toilet seat… down. Always. It is one of the simplest steps to keeping the peace.
2) Be respectful of the shared space. There’s no need to get permission to have your friends around for beers and pizza in front of the TV, but make sure you let your girlfriend know. If she’s get to get up early the next morning keep the noise low when she does to bed and clean up after yourself. Basically use common sense.
3) Do your fair share of housework. You’ll probably be able to figure out between yourselves who does what. Make sure whatever you are responsible for gets done and done properly.
4) Maintain a decent level of cleanliness. There’s no need to be a neat freak, however slobiness is never attractive.
5) Keep in touch with your mates. The key to any long term relationship is scheduling time exclusively with your partner, but having some fun alone with your friends is just as important. You’ll keep a sense of independence which is important.
6) Accept that living with someone is a bit of give and take. Your visions of the ideal bachelor pad are probably not concurrent with your girlfriend’s ideas for interior design. Get together and compromise on what your living spaces are going to be like.
7) No matter where it is hidden, if you have porn it is guaranteed to be found. If there is anything in your closet that needs to be discussed, discuss it before it is found.
8) The biggest complain that occurs when couples move in together is that the relationship becomes very domestic and the partner feels taken for granted. Just because you are living together does not mean that you and your girlfriend have to stop dating. Arrange special nights out and continue to behave as you were before you moved in together.
9) A few little things can go a long way. Occasionally prepare a home cooked meal for when she returns home, offer to make a cup of tea, buy some flowers anything to let her know you are thinking of her.
10) If the idea of totally giving up your personal space is too much come to a compromise. If you can afford it get a two bedroom place until you settle into the idea of living under the same roof. Sharing a place with some other friends can keep thing casual to start out. However, remember that the infancy of your coupledom life is going to be shared with your friends. Every fight and problem is going to be public knowledge.
2) Be respectful of the shared space. There’s no need to get permission to have your friends around for beers and pizza in front of the TV, but make sure you let your girlfriend know. If she’s get to get up early the next morning keep the noise low when she does to bed and clean up after yourself. Basically use common sense.
3) Do your fair share of housework. You’ll probably be able to figure out between yourselves who does what. Make sure whatever you are responsible for gets done and done properly.
4) Maintain a decent level of cleanliness. There’s no need to be a neat freak, however slobiness is never attractive.
5) Keep in touch with your mates. The key to any long term relationship is scheduling time exclusively with your partner, but having some fun alone with your friends is just as important. You’ll keep a sense of independence which is important.
6) Accept that living with someone is a bit of give and take. Your visions of the ideal bachelor pad are probably not concurrent with your girlfriend’s ideas for interior design. Get together and compromise on what your living spaces are going to be like.
7) No matter where it is hidden, if you have porn it is guaranteed to be found. If there is anything in your closet that needs to be discussed, discuss it before it is found.
8) The biggest complain that occurs when couples move in together is that the relationship becomes very domestic and the partner feels taken for granted. Just because you are living together does not mean that you and your girlfriend have to stop dating. Arrange special nights out and continue to behave as you were before you moved in together.
9) A few little things can go a long way. Occasionally prepare a home cooked meal for when she returns home, offer to make a cup of tea, buy some flowers anything to let her know you are thinking of her.
10) If the idea of totally giving up your personal space is too much come to a compromise. If you can afford it get a two bedroom place until you settle into the idea of living under the same roof. Sharing a place with some other friends can keep thing casual to start out. However, remember that the infancy of your coupledom life is going to be shared with your friends. Every fight and problem is going to be public knowledge.
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Consider this post 'Surviving with the girlfriend 101'
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If men and women strive to be equal, then can't the toilet seat exist in some kind of Heisenburg quasi-state?
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(God, maybe my boyfriend and I need couselling....I feel some resentment growing here.....)
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I put the lid odwn anyway, but I have always been baffled as to why girls are so picky about this??
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I was always of the contentious school of thought that as much as men should put the toilet seat down when they've finished, women should put it up when they're done. But that always seems to generate disdain.
I like to think of myself as a pretty good partner. As a professional DJ and writer I tend to work from home, and am working at night ... so to equalise the domestic situation I do much of the household chores during the day. My girl comes home from her 9 to 5 and the apartment looks great, and it makes her feel better about the fact that I never have to get up at the crack of dawn. Mind you, being a DJ at the weekend I'm often up at that time anyhoo .... but that's another kettle of fish entirely ...
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At least, that's what Dr. Karl says.
In my household I'm the one getting annoyed when SHE doesn't close the lid!
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Don't complain about the toilet seat. I LOVE that my girlfriend doesn't complain about this. A relationship shouldn't be about jobs that certain genders need to do, and if it is, it more often than not ends in disagreements. If the toilet seat is up, take the 2 seconds to put it down. If the dishwasher is clean, take the 5 minutes to put the dishes away. Why should gender matter?