Hello my beautiful people and welcome back to the moments podcast. I am super

excited for this episode. I honestly don't really know how it came to me.

Actually that's a lie. I know exactly how this episode came to me. I'm clearly in this

transition of going from, you know, this has been a pretty consistent conversation we've

been having, being super independent, living on my own, doing everything for myself,

kind of stage of my life, to now being in the complete opposite situation.

My boyfriend and I have been living together for two months-ish now, maybe almost three.

No, I'd say two. But even before that, we're having like at least three, four, five sleepovers a night.

So I've just been thinking a lot about how my life has changed

and shifting from living alone and doing all of the living alone things by myself to sharing that space with somebody,

especially when I haven't had roommates in over two years.

I've just been really comfortable in having my own space and doing things on my own.

So it's been a very big adjustment.

And then it got me to thinking, oh my gosh,

like I want to do a podcast episode

about the importance of spending time living alone, but also the importance of spending time with roommates because I think that both have so much value and both are so important at some point in our lives like we need to

experience both and I think a lot of people are scared of living alone in just

the same way that a lot of people are scared of like letting someone in

and sharing a

space with somebody. Obviously we're all different and we see that differently, but I'm just

going to kind of go through why I think each thing is important and necessary and

like what I've learned through having female roommates and

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