Congratulations! You’ve said yes to the big question — moving in with your partner. Dreams of replacing his bachelor-pad sofa or getting her to pare down her collection of vintage scarves are in your immediate future. With that, you can expect to agree on everything, right? Like your outlook on chores, organization and what color to paint the walls?
Not so fast.
Moving in together is a big step, one that takes two generally very different individuals and puts them together in the same, often small, space. How well do you really know your partner, anyway? Well, friend, you’re about to learn.
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“All the men in my life have suffered from LBP (laundry basket phobia). It has always been a mystery to me why men — who have to crumple paper so that they can shoot it at a waste paper basket — can’t get a shirt into a basket. My other question is, why, when they finally remember where the dirty clothes belong, do they forget how to empty their pockets? They constantly have their hands in them, why can’t they empty them?” — Penny Leibowitz Mires, Bloomingburg, New York
“I wish I had known how messy my partner can make the kitchen at home after cooking! It seems he uses every pot possible!” — Maria J. Koeller, Long Beach, New York
