My fourth principle for living with housemates successfully is “The Incest Taboo.”
Here is an excellent first-person account of how easy it is to fall into to sleeping with your housemate. And then the heartache that follows. It’s a scenario that is not uncommon as the comments make clear. Some think she should have stood up for herself and her feelings. But when you fall into bed, “it’s just sex” it’s hard to admit that it isn’t.
It’s by Taylor Cox on the Thought Catalog blog.
Going Solo—”Surprising Appeal of Living Alone”—Really?
My friend, I’ll call her Sarah, is a great example of the solo person in NYC. She lives alone. She loves it. She has built community around her in good friends, activities and an almost-weekly Friday evening at her local sushi bar. Like many of the people interviewed by Eric Klinenberg for his study and [...]