Showing posts with label marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marriage. Show all posts

April 30, 2008

Learning to Share...or not to

So this may be somewhat disturbing to some (or most) but I go the the bathroom with the door open. I don't mean at work or at a restaurant, but when I'm at home in my own apartment. I have spent most of my life after age 18 living alone with the exception of the occasional roommate and/or cat and the need to take that little bit of extra effort to close the door seemed like a waste. But now with moving in with my fiance on the horizon I'm concerned.

He knows of this odd habit that I have developed and it has become somewhat of a joke between us. I will purposely accentuate the fact that I am leaving the door open and tease as to whether he can handle my socially inappropriate behaviors, but once I move in must I stop? Is the humor in my oddness going to fade into annoyance or even disgust? I like leaving the door open because its my own silent protest to social expectations, but up until now I was the only person effected by the strike on conformism. Now, I think I will have to give this up as a courtesy to my new cohabitant and find otherways to conduct my personal dissent.

I know its strange...can't I just leave the door open a crack? I'll ask, maybe he won't mind...