Wayback me: I'm 28 and just lost my first pregnancy. Husband is deployed and i was desperate for human contact. Watching Buffy helped pull me out of my post miscarriage depression and so I go looking for more on the Internet. Eventually I find you all. I'm in my first year of law school, no kids, living in Colorado.
Current me: hi! I miss you all. I am again in Colorado. Now happily divorced. Ellie is 9 and Sammy is 2.5. Frisco is 6. My parents have moved in to my house and it has been transforming for all of us. We are planning to buy a larger house together. It's been wonderful for the kids. My 25yo friend Abby also lives with us. It's like a commune and I love it. My business is growing like crazy. I know have 4 employees. I'm struggling to be a good manager. That's not my strong suite (hate confrontation!!!) but I'm working on it. I recently went on a trip to rural Mexico and it was so beautiful. I'm kinda stressed (hello, insomnia) but I'm working on handling it better. I think it's part hereditary and part actual work. My life is mostly work and kids these days but I'm way less lonely than I used to be. I miss you all.
Wow, Stephanie! That's a life and a half!
So glad we found this place.
(hate confrontation!!!)
Um, isn't that kind of your business?
Confrontation on behalf of someone else and confrontation for yourself totally different for me.
I kinda want a commune house. The next house I buy will probably be a split bedroom design so that I can ideally share with a single female friend.
Laura, that's is 100% right on for me too. I'm a great advocate for other but suck at it for myself.
Mabelle, I love my commune. It actually has freed me to date, even if the date is not a dude I want to marry/help raise my kids. My kids are doing great, I have lots of fun and company at home, and dating is just for fun.
That all sounds so wonderful, Stephanie! Good to read.
Mabelle, I love my commune. It actually has freed me to date, even if the date is not a dude I want to marry/help raise my kids. My kids are doing great, I have lots of fun and company at home, and dating is just for fun.
That sounds awesome! I want my sister to make a commune, she's joked about it, but not in Indiana.
I kinda want a commune house. The next house I buy will probably be a split bedroom design so that I can ideally share with a single female friend.
Me too! It sounds wonderful. My BFF and I have talked seriously about buying a house with two master suites or something that we can share. In Nashville, I had a big house, and there were always three or four people living with me, and I liked it. We were all introverts, so it worked. I like living alone, but it does get lonely. And scary, sometimes.
I kinda want a commune house. The next house I buy will probably be a split bedroom design so that I can ideally share with a single female friend.
I have a friend who formed a co-housing community with her friends that's pretty communal. They're all around retirement age but not ready for a retirement home. And they're all over yard work and cleaning gutters. So they designed and built (via contractor) an apartment building with a bunch of handicapped accessible one-bedroom apartments, each with a small kitchen and balcony. There's also a larger communal kitchen, several bed/bath spaces that they can reserve for visitors, gaming and hang-out areas, etc. It's near a bus hub and in a walkable part of town, as well as near a hospital. It's all very deliberate and well considered. I wouldn't mind doing something like that.
