If you are an introvert, I worry that you’re about to put down this book. I realize that I am hardwired for relational connectivity more than most people, but please hear me
She does not understand introversion. I am an introvert, but I honestly do love the idea of communal living (so long as I have some space all to myself), but the thing is, right now? I AM MARRIED. I’m living communally; it’s what I picked when I said “I do”. I only have one budgie still in the nest full-time, but even when he’s out, I have a spouse. Unless he dies or trades me in for a younger model - which would be infinitely to his own detriment, let me just say - I live communally. At some future point, if that is no longer true, I would happily live with the Golden Girls. But for now, I’m married and that is where my communal living energy goes.
