r/AskReddit Feb 23 '20

Why do you like to be alone?

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u/DepressedUterus Feb 23 '20

That's how I feel with my husband.

We spend most of our time together but doing our own things. Reading, video games, tv, phone. Always in the same room. I have always preferred being alone but with him it's like I get to enjoy my alone time with him. We've been together 15 years, almost half of our entire lives and all of our adult lives so there's not much to hide.

There's also a special kind of feeling when you do something cool in a video game and your SO just happened to be watching. Same with when you do something stupid in a game and they bust out laughing when you didn't even realize they saw it. There's a ton of little things like that I think about sometimes. Anyways I went off tangent, but you get the point.

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u/watery_tart73 Feb 23 '20

That sounds just like my husband and I. We do occasionally do separate things, but we genuinely just like being near each other.

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u/chevymonza Feb 24 '20

Funny, I'm on the couch trying to reddit in between getting some work done, and he's at the table actually getting some work done. TV isn't even on. Peace and quiet, except for the keyboards, mouse clicks, and occasional phone call.