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Many couples think they know what living with their partner will be like, just based on the fact that they spend most nights together before moving in. But there’s really no way of knowing what living together is like until you do it. When you live separately, you can let a lot of things slide. You may see habits or behaviors of your partner’s that you don’t like, but you think, “I can just go home if it bothers me too much” so you don’t say anything. When you live together, you don’t get to walk away from those issues anymore. If you’re going to live in a space where you’re both happy to be, you wind up having to have a lot of logistical and practical (and boring and stressful) discussions you never had to have before. And that changes things. Here are the top cohabitation fights every couple has.
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Handling bad neighbors
You and your partner might have the misfortune of having bad neighbors. They might make too much noise, jog in place upstairs, or have some strange smell coming from their balcony. You might decide you want to go upstairs and say something, while your partner doesn’t think you should start drama with people you’ll see several times a day in the corridor.
