Moving in - relationship advice & relationship support for couples staying together



We sort of jumped into it didn't we? Yeah once we met, things moved really quickly. But it wasn't weird at all. Wasn't it? No. We were just staying with each other so much, eventually we were living together. I think it wasn't quite that simple though. The main problem we had was finding, or making everything official. We both had our idea of having our own independent spaces by living separately, but Steve always stayed at mine and messed it up. His was just sat there gathering dust. Actually my flatmate was using my room for storage. Storage of his drunken friends you mean. That's not true. It is. Anyway, so eventually Vic did the honourable thing and asked me if I'd just like to move the rest of my stuff over and live with him. Well most of your stuff was already there. When we first started discussing moving in together, I thought I was going to have to sign my life away. I wasn't that bad. Well actually, it's not about being bad, it was more that I was ready for the next stage of our relationship and I'm not sure you were umm Well I'm not even sure it was that, it was just so much to consider. I had my own life that I wanted to keep on living without getting bogged down with joint accounts, who cleans the bathroom, cooks tonight and all that stuff. Everyone has their own way of living, and really well, we just worked out how best to use our space and deal with our habits, and sort out our sleeping patterns. I think also you wanted to keep tabs on me. Not in a really bad way, but you did have some jealousy issues at the time. I think it wasn't just that I had jealousy issues, I think we were both independent people and we both had our ideas about what we wanted to do. I mean some of the things that happened, I didn't really agree with it. Which is why I just didn't really agree with it. Like? Like you were out all the time. It's not a big deal, but sometimes, I could imagine you loosing yourself in a moment and I never really used to... You're right. You're right. I did resist change at first. I sort of rebelled against having to leave a lifestyle behind. And I do understand, I struggled too, but I think I got into the living together head space faster than Steve. I was spending most of my time at his house, but it was a while before we realised we both had to make compromises. That's it. I think we just moved in together without really thinking anything. So there was a time we were living together, we hadn't seriously thought about what that meant. That wasn't bad though. The fact that we did that showed how much we loved each other. I mean, it's not like you show up at anyone's house on night and just stay. Exactly, and because we click like that. I never really thought about discussing anything. Like, should I have space for my own stuff and not live in a show home! and I shouldn't be running a free hotel. Yeah well anyway. I think we did reach a point where we had to accept things had changed. And we did feel that because we spent so much of our time together that we'd be giving up a lot of who we were. It was weird though, because, we were kind of doing that anyway because we were spending so much time together, It's true, when you find you love spending time with someone, you find that a lot of what you've done before seems less important. You get wrapped up in that person's personality. I found that I was spending so much time with Vic in the first few months, I found I was adopting some of his mannerisms. Such as? Like you do this when you are bored I did that when I went for a drink with Rob and he almost wet himself laughing I don't do that do I? You totally do, he does.