When it comes to living alone, you can really grow to appreciate your living space – your home and, thus, your personal space. With busy lives, it can be hard to appreciate our surroundings. Living alone and working towards it successfully can help you become more attuned to your space. You’re able to mould it precisely the way you imagine. Even if your home is a work in progress right now, it is your own, and you are totally in charge of it.
If you’re sitting reading this thinking you’ve already decorated recently, you might find some more inspiration for keeping busy around the house in our ‘Home is where the heart is’ article.
Working from home has started to become more popular. This can be great as it reduces commuting time, and for many people, the lack of office distractions increases their productivity.
However, there is a downside for every upside, and working from home can make the boundaries of work/life balance blurry. This can be more of an issue for solos working from home because without another person wanting their attention, they might easily work past their usual hours.
When the office is your sofa, it can become challenging to know when it’s time to switch on and off from work mode. If you don’t have a home office, some minor changes can go a long way to making it feel less like you’re working and living from the same spot every day. Try the simple trick of creating an area of your home set up purely to work from, a defined space where you work and where the rest of your home is for you to relax and switch off from the laptop.
36 thoughts on “10 Reasons Why Living Alone Can Be Good For You”
Thankyou for this . Really needed it.☺️
Thank you for this. I am moving out on my own for the first time and this really helped.
Thanks I’m moving out on my own for first time and a bit nervous but I have a bit more piece of mind thank you.
Reading this in lightens on a few facts which I did not really consider .when you live on your own being a pensioner you think more of your pass and get depressed to which you can’t help .I do have family but they to have family it’s there life and I respect that they come first I had my life I would not want them to think they have me to consider .
Getting back to this being alone is good in some ways but I also think you can become selfish in not sharing life the quietness become solitude and when your in a group of people it’s deftneing .
On the whole. The advantages is come and go when you like and only answer to your self .my thoughts .
Thank you I just got my own place, I wasn’t sure why I was pushed to living alone but I understand it now.
If you live in a shared space with roommates, you are not living alone. Living alone means your own private bathroom/ private kitchen/ private refrigerator. Don’t make the mistake I made. Roommates will run and sometimes administer your life whether you like it or not. Have your own key kitchen, bathroom and room. Personal lifestyle. 1.
My roommate is my business partner and best friend and I really look forward to living alone again… Every time he isn’t home for a while or even some hours, I feel how better off I am if left alone with myself. I am more productive, less stressed, have more fun doing creative work and am just not interrupted or dependent on anybody else’s behaviour. It’s just amazing.
Living with a friend is not like living with a significant other or a complete stranger. I am a person who loves his personal space and a friend won’t respect that as much as a stranger. Sometimes I feel like owning a pet that needs my attention but without the option of petting it… So keep in mind: If you have the choice of living alone, do it!
P.S.: I personally am an introvert at home and an extrovert under people and have much more meetups with other friends or even dates with women if he is not here. (Probably cause my social battery is not used up at home already)
I live alone can’t beat it do what you want when you want couldn’t be happier
I’m 35 and living alone. I haven’t been in a relationship since my 20s. I enjoy being alone and it is by choice!
Thanks for the article. Boy, I sure do want to live alone! I am retired, my husband of 37 years died (terribly painful and sad) and my brother came to live with us after his divorce. I have been his caretaker. I am tired of it. I want my own life and discover who I am after a wonderful marriage. My Siberian and I would be very, very happy to build a wonderful life together!!
I agree with everyone who commented here.
It’s better to stay alone as I am married and having lots of problem with my husband as he is cheating and chatting with women on social media and etc.
We fight everyday and not listening and those bitches online instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok and etc making all men crazy and their breaking their marriage.
I think living alone is much better solution and I agree with everyone here.
Living alone is the best thing I’ve ever done for myself.
I moved into my own flat at 44yrs old after a lifetime of living with others.
It’s like a giant weight has been lifted off my shoulders- I wake up grateful every day that I have control over everything as soon as I shut the door.
It’s beautiful- I don’t want to live with anyone ever again.
Great tips thank you! This has confirmed everything I hoped living alone would be 🙂
I need 2 live alone
I have been caregiver to my parents for four years.
They are going to assisted living and im petrified of being here alone.
I felt purposeful and needed and now I am beyond frightened.
I am looking forward to getting my own place next year. It will be my first time living alone and I can’t wait. I have been single for five years and I’m happy that way. I have been living with my Dad while saving for a house deposit. I’m grateful that I have been able to do this, and we do have a good relationship, but I feel that I don’t and have full control of my own life and won’t until I live in my own home. I feel like I have a curfew sometimes as he will always make a comment if I’m home later than I said I would be. And I am looking forward to eating more of what I want for dinner, rather than trying to find things we both like which can be hard!
Being single and all alone all the time can be very unhealthy and depressing, especially when you know so many others that are all settled down with their loved ones. Not really fun at all for many of us single guys, unless if you’re one of many others that really like to be.
Just move to a state living with my family for 22 year’s and I am? 22 so I grew up with my family and did everything from my home now I got admission to a different state so I had to move alone just stay in a hotel searing the right apartment …….. ..this article helped I was worried and kind of overwhelmed ….kind of had tears… But I got this… Huuufff fuuu ha yeh I got this
Living alone is not all about having fun and enjoying yourself. You must also be financially savvy to truly enjoy all the benefits. Living alone 25years now.
I LOVE living alone and I love never having made the serious mistake of marrying. Over half of my friends and relatives are divorced. Of those who remained married, eighty to ninety percent fight and have the attitude, “All couples fight.” Not me, I’m too smart for that, thankfully! There is nothing WORSE they being married. Living alone is makes me happy, extremely productive, and always relaxed.
Living alone is the best!
My daughter is 46 years old and is very happy living on her own.
You don’t have to answer to anyone, you make your own choices on everything.
no questions, no advice, often needed but still OK.
Years ago I moved to London, during a huge media drive from the government.
It was called “Clubbing the unclubbable” I found this very patronising and unpleasant.
Lived alone in US. Loved it. Got married to a wonderful woman who happened to be German. Moved to Germany. Lived together for 20+ years, currently separated, living alone again. Really enjoy every second as it is my second, hour, day to use. Buy a bike as this helps with staying in shape, getting outside, shopping while reducing carbon emissions. Yes, an ebike is my choice and while charging does create greenhouse gasses they are far less than a car. + insurance is much less, no gas, etc. Peace to all!
I love living alone… It is pure freedom to come and go and do as you please whenever you want. I am not lonely at all, if i want to be around people I can easily make that decision as well!!!!! I have 4 cats and a dog, My home is not soulless, I bring life to my home and so do they. I am mentioning this as some homes i have gone to do have that very cold, soulless feeling, maybe even a sadness. We ourselves that love this life style make it what we want it to be. 😉
I ended up living alone after getting out of a bad relationship. I had previously been married from age 18 until my wonderful husband passed away when we were 51. Then I unfortunately got into a relationship 3 years later (which I shouldn’t have but longing for companionship and thinking I would be happier not being alone) He turned out to be a violent alcoholic and although it was good in the first couple of years my life turned into a living hell of constant turmoil. I was praying to for God to remove me and longed to live on my own.
Well it finally happened when he injured me and went to jail. Finally I was free. And I tell you living alone on my own I am finally at peace. I love it and don’t desire my life to ever be any different. The joy of being independent and in control of my own finances and home space is truly the best.
Thank you so much for this article. Deeply thoughtful. I needed this.
i don’t mind living alone. Day time is ok for me. Night time is a bit scary for me. i don’t like darkness. Can someone teach me to like Night time.
Female, Age 64. I have been blissfully living alone for 22 years. The freedom to pursue hobbies (solo and group hobbies) of my choosing, to spend time with a variety of good friends, while having my cozy home all to myself has truly been the best experience of my life.
I’m much healthier emotionally, physically and spiritually because of my choice to divorce and live solo.
I have more friends now, from wonderfully diverse backgrounds, than I ever had in the 18 year unhappy marriage I endured. Solo living can be the best choice for some (many?) of us. I have several married couple friends as well as single friends. They’re all special and hand picked by me. Life is good.
Im eventually am going to be alone after 35 years of marriage, my wife has terminal cancer, we done everything together, made our home, im 63 and now retired to look after her, when we should have used our retirement to enjoy the rest of our lives together but no its not to be.
So when my beautiful wife has passed, im not looking forward to loneliness but i have my daughter and friends to rely on, hope it will get easier!
What would you suggest for someone who would like to live alone, but has children and a woman that will fall apart if you leave? I would love to live alone, but I can’t seem to, even as much as I want to. I know it’s healthier for me. But I feel I am stuck. What would you suggest?
@monica Just brainstorming some ideas, feel free to choose the ones you like. Nightlights help at night. A deadbolt for the doors, or other/multiple locks. A dog to keep watch from strangers. A body pillow to hug at night. Inviting a friend to stay over. Mindfulness meditation ( like the Medito app), this one helps with racing thoughts that keep ppl up.
@John, having a wife and kids and wanting to live alone is a tough one. I know many men that feel trapped by responsibilities. It’s hard to tell without a discussion. Talking with someone who went through something similar could bring some light on how you can get what you need at the same time feel they are taken care of.
On another note, I love the comment section of this article. It helped me to see the different views people have on living alone. I personally want love, and hope to find a man that is caring, one with a heart. I am currently living with my Dad and feel like he is erroding my mental health. He seems to think of me as an extension of himself. There are too many arguments and he blame me for a lot of things. Then tells me how much he does for me, and gow much I have here, that it will be expensive.
Thank you for your 10 solo living tips. They can be a lifeline for a person living in a harmful, stressful relationship or situation. But for someone who is forced to live in isolation, it can be unhealthy. Research tells us that at least 40% of solo dwellers experience depression. Unfortunately, after 12 years alone, I crashed. Each year I became more dysfunctional. IBS, panic attack, amnesia, headache, fatigue, pain. Thankfully, after intolerance to most antidepressants, I responded to fluvoxamine with a return to health. Hopefully now I can survive solo.
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