Brenda: Have you ever thought about the difference between living with someone and living alone! Things are simpler when you just have YOU to think about, but add someone to your living arrangement and sometimes it can be total chaos! It takes some getting used to, but it can work most days, don’t you think?
Dominique: Yes…I still don’t get why clothes get left in front or next to the laundry basket instead of inside! “Why can’t you put your clothes in the laundry basket?” this thought goes through my mind almost daily living with Brandon. Isn’t it crazy that little things like this just are not understood by another person in your house…even after 4 years of living together…the same routine of clothes on the floor instead of the laundry basket!
Brenda: Yes…you would think since they so in to sports they could actually make something in the basket after all that time! I don’t have that problem too much with clothes on the floor with Mark, but there are always other things that differ between us in our way of living.
Dominique: Yes, he makes it all the way upstairs and yet…he misses the basket by a few inches! Another thing, he doesn’t understand why I can’t take my clothes off right side in and he definitely does not comprehend pulling my jeans off around my feet with tight skinny jeans is more work than stepping and pulling my foot through inside out! Or what about the dishwasher…
Brenda: Well, that must just be you because I don’t take my jeans off inside out! Now, the dishwasher situation in my house…I have a routine all my own…organized! My plates go a certain way faced forward, my pots and pans go in the back together, my bowls at the top lined up with glasses and cups on each side right next to each other, and all silverware goes in the silverware container with all utensils facing up…not down.
Dominique: Yes, you have to have organization in your dishwasher and I do the same thing! My plates line up a certain way, my cups and glasses are all next to each other, my pots and pans have their spot and my bowls line up perfectly. Why do men not get it?
Brenda: I can’t answer that because after almost 14 years…I still have to start the dishwasher my way! I will rearrange if it is not my way!
Dominique: I do the same thing, they have to be the right way before I can start it. When you live alone, you develop a sense of organization on how you do things to be comfortable in your house and when you live with somebody, those things sometimes can change to meet in the middle and you learn to compromise with that person.
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