Moving in with your romantic-other is not something to be taken lightly or done without considerable planning and thought but it’s important to enjoy the process too.
Couples go through various stages when living together: there’s the initial and exciting period when you literally do everything together, then the ‘jostling’ period when you start competing for everything from milk to who has the first shower in the morning and then after all the fun – deciding who pays for what exactly?
Even before money is discussed there’s the first decision of where you’ll live. Moving in together means sharing a space and territory, and no matter how much time you’ve spent at each other’s places, whether overnight or for entire weeks on end, one of you will be moving into their space. In an ideal world it would be a perfect start to move into a brand new place together – no history, and balance and equality from the get go.
Sure, the coming together of two lives and two different routines is romantic but there’s still those boring details that should be fleshed out once you’ve found a place. Unless you’re in a relationship with a millionaire or the latest Lotto winner, it’s important to sit down and talk about the cold hard logistics of your new living arrangement – perhaps done over a bottle of Pinot and a Frank Sinatra vinyl to relax the mood!
After all goes swimmingly with the bills and you’ve passed the initial stage of shadowing each other to every corner of the house, you will want some of your alone time back again. The teenage spark still exists however it has matured. If neither of you feel neglected or ‘alone’ in your own home through this then you are probably meant to live with each other for the rest of your lives.
As the saying goes: true friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. The same is true of love and romance.
There are a whole bunch of great reasons to move in with your significant other, some of which aren’t emotional. If you get it right the shared financial, rent and grocery costs add up to mega savings, as well as the removal of transport costs to visit each other. At the end of the day though you should only move in with someone who has a special place in your heart.
So if you have decided that now is the perfect time to take a leap of faith, at some point you’ll need to move your belongings to your new home. Conroy ensures this transition is as smooth and stress free as possible, so you have more time to enjoy the moving process with your loved one.