Things Couples Immediately Learn Upon Moving In With Each other

Moving in with your partner is a big step that’s usually met with excitement and anticipation for both parties. You figure you stay with each other most nights anyway so you’re basically already co-habitating professionals. It’s plain sailing from here, right?

Think again. However much you know your significant other, there are certain things you’ll only truly understand after taking that next step.

1. One person is destined to be the ‘messy one’

It could be you. Whoever the messy one is, they’ll joke that the other is the ‘neat freak’. This relationship will be established pretty early on.

2. Control of the remote is a long and enduring battle

If you’re lucky, you’ll have loads of film and TV favourites in common but mostly there will be clashes of interest. There will be much compromise here and probably more shows about rich housewives than you’d have liked.

3. The worst cook becomes the kitchen porter

Whoever doesn’t cook, cleans. Those be the rules.

4. There are almost always clothes piles in random, unexpected locations 

Beside the bed and the bathroom floor are firm favourites. As soon as one pile is cleared, another will appear. The struggle is real.

5. They take WAY longer in the bathroom than you ever remembered

When you lived apart you joked about how long they took to get ready and all was fine and well – now you need to use the bathroom and you’re not laughing.

6. You both naturally gravitate towards the sofa

The sofa is your daytime communal place, where you’ll come together to mainly sit apart on your phones but sometimes cuddle and watch TV too.

7. You operate on totally different thermal levels

One opens a window, the other puts the heating on. Finding the perfect temperature for you both is an art form and if you nail it, please tell me how.

8. You’ll buy things you never imagined buying before

Like plants and stuff to hang on walls… you’ll visit IKEA at least once.

9. UNWANTED HAIRS OF ALL VARIETIES

Whether it’s the longer ones or the short and curly types, you’ll both contribute to this problem and you’ll place most of the blame on the other person.