I was reading a book yesterday that got me thinking about how some people never live alone in their lives. They may go from parents to marriage or to roomates and then marriage and then live with children so they never live alone until they are older.  I lived alone first when I left home for  the first time and supported myself so I know how it is to live alone and how freeing it can be. It can be so lovely to live alone and call all the shots but I adore my husband so I am happy living with him.  I decided I would ask here about people who have  lived alone.

Have you ever lived completely alone without roomates, etc...  Have you ever lived totally alone and been responsible for all your debts, etc...  How do you feel about living alone if you have or do?

Yes! Not only have I lived alone, I have lived alone in the middle of the desert and liked it tremendously.

I like the people I live with now too. I think I could live alone again easily, though so wonder if I am just not inherently satisfied - Jupiter Moon! :)

Come to think of it, having lots of space like I did then, or living with funny people like I do now are both manifestations of the Jupiter moon. I think I'm just going to be happy, regardless.

Great question! :)

No, I have Libra and Sag! I love people too much. But I am always responsible for my own debts, as I've always paid my own way through life. I've never had a hand out!

I know I can't do very well living on my own. I wouldn't be able to function. 

come to think of it I have never lived alone................Parents to Navy to Annalisa, and I have always had the voices in my head aswell

LOL, VA!

ha ha, VA!  Yes, I am surprised  at how many people have never lived alone!

hahahaha VA!

Yes, I've lived alone before and liked it alot.  The past 10 years though have been devoted to child raising so I guess I haven't really been alone over the last 10 years but before that yes, loved it.

I have for years now. I don't mind.

I like living with people, and I like living alone.

I lived alone when I moved away from my family for the first time properly. It was a tiny one-bed flat with no central heating, on the second floor of a converted house (in the loft, essentially) - opposite a hospital with a busy A&E department!

I absolutely loved it, for so many reasons. Looking back, it was the only time in my adult life that I've been well off and not in debt. I didn't spend money on anything special, but I would enjoy going out with friends - especially for coffee and cake! And I was able to spend money on clothes, and even managed a holiday by myself in New Zealand!

It was in the early 2000s in the boom period. Sadly I was too naive to think about the future. I wish I had started to save. A few years later, I moved to a different city to be with my now-ex, a move that financially destroyed me due to commuting and having to support a self-employed partner who wasn't making as much as he should.

I lived alone after splitting up with him, albeit with occasional lodger. And I enjoyed that too.

No. Even when single, I had my kids living with me. But, this part:

Have you ever lived totally alone and been responsible for all your debts, etc

Yes. Always. I've always been the one responsible for debt, paying bills, financial stuff whether alone or coupled.

I don't live in alone because I've always felt alone as a child, even with people around me. So as I grew up I was allowed to pick people to hang out with. Even though I have a child, it's my choice and now I've got a dog to boot. I love being around company. I don't feel alone. Just happy.

No - I went from parents to marriage to kids.  But I make sure I keep tabs on the household finances, so if I'm ever on my own...

There are several different times that I've lived alone and each time has been of great value to me.  I've liked the time and enjoy having that personal space.  I could easily see myself living alone again, but not for a while, as I have little ones that I do enjoy sharing my personal space with.  The triple sag was my snuggle buddy last night and I sleep like the dead when she's beside me :). 

Elsa mentioned her moon/jupiter and I also have moon/jupiter, yet I'm not inherently satisfied with who I'm living with.  That has not been my experience and I am now very careful to live by myself or in choosing someone to share my space with.  My moon/jupiter is in my 6th and I can tell you that I'm satisfied with any service that I'm giving effort to.  That or organizing clutter, either one gives me a feeling of satisfaction :)
Angie

I've spent very little time living completely alone... but, I do remember loving it and that my money went a whole lot further.  My favorite part of living alone was the freedom to do what I wanted when I wanted, like having pizza for breakfast or staying up all night long reading a book! ;-)

I also decorated the apartment I had really feminine- a sweet Victorian couch, lots of pretty knick-knacks, a PINK bathroom... I loved the look on male visitors faces... 'Uh, is that couch gonna hold me?'

Yes. As it happens I'm now in between homes and staying with a friend. Regardless of whether I live alone or with someone else my 'real' home is always over the hill and far away.

I have basically lived alone my entire life.  I have physically lived alone for the past 25 years - I relish it.    But even when I lived with my family, I felt like I lived alone----

Yes. And I love it. I find living with people difficult. Home is my retreat from others.

I lived completely alone after my divorce. I had a two bedroom apartment when he left but because we were on HUD, I got down-sized into a 1 bedroom. I lived there for two years before I moved back to the house I grew up in (alone), which was in the woods in a very isolated and far-spread-out town.

I liked it.

Nope, and I doubt I ever will.  I have travelled alone, and I must say, for little bits of time I do enjoy it.  Don't think I could enjoy living alone though.

Yes!  I really enjoy living alone.  :)

Been living alone since...I forget when. But it's darned nice. Nobody picking at me about anything!

Prefer it, actually. I need my private space and time. After my ex husband and I split, I moved into an apartment of my own, and have lived alone 9 of the last 12 years.

I did for years before meeting my husband.

"Home is my retreat from others."

Michele summed up my thoughts nicely, but I like this line the best.

I have slept alone for my lifetime so far, and I have been living alone since I turned 22, almost 8 yrs ago. I *love it* so very much! I don't have to worry about disturbing anyone with my night owl routines, and baking at midnight. I can do whatever I like when I come home, and don't have to answer to anyone, except the cat.

I think for me it's all about balance. I grew up in a loud, uncomfortable home, and my room was my sanctuary when my loud, rather lacking in boundaries family wasn't coming into my room every other hour. I also work in a very busy, loud, on stage kind of social job, and I need something to balance out all the bombardments my HSP self takes doing such a job, and my home provides me that necessary quiet, and lack of forced sociability.

I think the only person I could live with, and be okay with it would by my partner, as he's special, and not another woman, and in a whole other category by himself in my mind.

I also know of quite a few young women around my age who have never lived alone, and never paid a household bill in their lives, and like it that way. They either live with a boyfriend who pays for everything, or they live at home with their parents who pay for everything.

Frankly, I find it frightening to think that at age 25 one has no concept of how to take care of themselves, and has an unashamed 'shopping habit' they refuse to relinquish. I'd rather be independent, and frugal, than some moronic boys arm candy just so I didn't have to take personal responsibility for my own affairs. Hmm, I think my MC/SN/Juno in Capricorn has spoken. ;)

12th house chart ruler/Venus in Aries.

IC/NN in Cancer.

To LIVE alone- no, i am a social animal, so i need a human contact.

To BE alone for a day or two- sounds good to me, its like being on a diet from human contact, always healthy :-)

yes, and I LOVED it!  rent was around 200 dollars and utilities were not much.  I worked at restaurants so I didn't really buy much food.  beer was 1 dollar a pitcher at happy hour where I was a regular (The World Famous Up & Up Tavern).  pool was a quarter.

edited to add:  I like people, but I only share my den well with family. 

Have you ever lived completely alone?

Nope, but it is what I've always wanted.  At least until I find the woman of my dreams. 

Have you ever lived totally alone and been responsible for all your debts, etc

Yes. Doing so now. I am realizing I only want to live with others who have aqua/gem/sag/libra 4th houses.. they've made the best roommates in the past. As long as they can pay their part of the bills and not leave me high and dry.

My first trip through college, yep.  :)  It was only for about two years or so but I enjoyed it.  When I moved back, I lived with my family, then my ex, then my family again, and now I'm making plans to move in with my grandmother so she can have a companion.

Grandma never lived a day alone in her life until Grandpa died, straight from birth-family to husband's house.  She's not doing well with it.  :(

Not yet, but I plan to.

I've lived completely alone several times through out my 20's and 30's, a few years here and there mostly. But now I've got this roommate, she eats all my food, doesn't pay rent, and expects me to wait on her hand and foot. Oh wait, that's not a roommate, it's a child.

I first lived alone when I was 22 and I've been alone most of the time since, except for six years of my marriage, and a few months here and there either house-sharing (for a year on the island, then another year on my return), or living with family briefly when I was going through my divorce. I had my own place for seven years in London before I married.

I've lived entirely on my own, in seven different homes in London and then the country, since I got back from Italy in 1986. I don't live very well with other people - with seven planets in Cardinal, I need things done my way ;)  and I also dislike living with other people's 'interior design' (Sun/Venus conjunct)

Yes, I'm doing that now. Most of my 4th house is in Aries, and my SN is there as well, in Aries. Neptune rules my 4th...I need priva-ceeeeee.   But I do have the TV on for company...or the radio...or the Internet. Need the company.

Had roommates for a few years, but stayed in my room when they were at home. Their friends didn't believe their female roommate existed til I came out of hiding one day. Ha!  

Yes, for about a year, during grad school.  That was so long ago.  I was recently thinking I've spent over half of my life married. Since I'm married to a Sag I get private time.

ETA: To answer the question, I prefer being married.  I'm a Capricorn with my Saturn in Libra.

My ex husband was an Aqua so it was almost like living alone! In the six years we were married, we must have spent 14 months of those apart overall...

And I dealt with all the bills and money anyway... He was pretty clueless at all that

I have never lived completely alone. I have spent a lot of time by myself in our second home and I lived alone for a few weeks after I graduated and my roommate had already moved out, but that's not the same.

I would love to live in my own place sometime.

I have lived and currently do live completely alone (have cohabitated with boyfriends and roommates in the past) and I LOVE IT.  I wouldn't trade it for anything except marriage in the future.  I am Gemini sun and Aquarius moon - we live in our heads and need our alone time and love doing things on our own even though we adore our friends and family.  :) 

The times I've lived with others seems more of an exception than the living alone.  From 17 till 34 I was on my own with the exception of

...one horrid year in the dorms, two years with two different roommates an two years with a boyfriend.  Otherwise I was on my own, worked, paid my rent, bills etc.  I was lucky to have help for emergency medical bills and once on a car issue from my parents but otherwise - just me.

12th house sun was/is OK with being alone.  My Leo husband on the other hand has never lived alone and it shows with his calls on my private time and space. Moving in together as an older couple has allowed some willingness to work that out though.

I"m a Virgo hermit and have lived alone for a few years at a time, multiple times in my life, and been responsible for my own finances and so forth. Right now I'm with my parents and I *dream* of being back on my own!

PS I may prefer being on my own, but I've had good luck with roommates when I've gone that route, too.