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7 Tips For Living With Your Significant Other

Living with your significant other can be fun but also frustrating. Here are some tips to make living with your boyfriend/girlfriend easier.

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7 Tips For Living With Your Significant Other
Abi Huff

Once in your life you will move in with the person you say you will be with for the rest of your life. Before you do, here are seven tips to remember when living with your significant other.

1. Where you live will be a mess.

No matter if you ask them to clean up after themselves, they may every once in a while but they won't every time.

Tip: Make it a group effort. Split up chores in half or do them together. Condense the laundry pile into the bedroom instead of the whole apartment.

2. Get a pet.

Pets are a necessity and give you responsibility for something.

3. Understand that you both still have your own lives 

You will have work, classes, & your hobbies. Those were all there before you moved in together and probably before you got together.

Tip: Don't get in the way of what they love to do. Encourage them and support them.

4. Don't forget to spend time together.

Busy schedules will consume you and you will forget to sit aside time for one another.

Tip: Sit aside two to three times a week to hang out with one another. Run errands, watch movies, or hang out with family.

5. You will fight.

This is inevitable. Every human at one time or another will disagree, not understand, or will be upset.

Tip: Communication is key, don't stop. Always be honest.

6. "Over-texting" is a thing.

When you live together, you don't need to talk all the time.

Tip: Text when it is important. When you will be home late, if you forget to feed your pets, if you had something pop up, etc.

7. You love each other.

You live with them and see them all the time so saying and showing affection may be forgotten.

Tip: Don't forget to show each other affection and tell them that you love them.

Are you feeling daring yet?

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