A few months ago a close friend and I discussed the possibility of sharing a home together. At first it seemed like a good idea, but as we talked more about it, I came to realize that it probably …
Who says you give up your privacy? (When sharing housing)
“I don’t want to give up my privacy.” I hear this a lot when I’m talking to people about shared housing. It is often the first reaction a person has to the idea. It’s an honest reaction and one well …
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Doing Things Differently
Cups on hooks, do they belong there? What happens when you find yourself in a shared housing situation and you discover that your home-mate does things differently. Do you bring it up so often …
Pressured to Move Closer to Adult Children? (How to Get Them to Stop.)
The holiday season arrived and the traveling began. Adult children hosted their parents, or traveled with the grandchildren to the homes of their parents. We journey great distances to see mom and …
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Renting in Cohousing
I first met Carrie on a tour of Pioneer Valley Cohousing following the Northeast Cohousing Summit. A little later, she invited me to join her and five others to bring our dinner plates from the common …
Letting Go of Good Housemates
Letting go of a good housemate is a sad thing. But it happens. For a good percentage of my adult life I've lived in a shared housing environment--platonic and romantic--where in all cases it …