sleeping separately

Once again this week I had to do the embarrassing thing. Someone invited Charles and me to stay and didn’t need to mention that they were assuming we’d share a bed. Everyone assumes married couples share a bed. Even unmarried couples have to share a bed. There’s no escape. Unless, of course, you don’t love each other anymore.

Well, I guess we never loved each other then, since we had separate bedrooms from the start. I’d had the pleasure of my own bed for a while before Charles moved in and there was no way I was going to have an intruder, however desirable and exciting.

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Alone – or lonely?

September 10, 2012

in Friendship, Personal

 

Fireplace tiles

People understand loneliness. If they know someone is alone they may respond by offering company for comfort and will almost certainly worry about them. People are not quite so clued up about those of us who suffer easily from over exposure to people.

I don’t know how people have coped in the past, when privacy was almost impossible to find. […continue reading…]