[LovePinkCoach]

Originally Posted by thelace

Reading some of the posts here seriously made me squirm and cringe. I would go f***ing APE if somebody whined and clung to me as has been described here. It would be like having a constant, insanely irritating noise in my ear, that never gave me a minute's peace.

And yes, I am extremely close to my partner - passionately in love after 7 years. But we give do spend time apart to be able to miss each other.

Seriously girls, it really isn't attractive to be so demanding.

LOL I know this thread is a little old, but I completely agree with you. This would drive me insanely batty. Maybe I'm just really independent, but I can't even imagine BEGGING my SO to go with me for stupid things that I could be doing on my own. Not to mention he'd probably look at me like I was nuts!

I agree with you that it's important to spend time apart- it only makes your relationship stronger. I know a couple who are recently married (been together 6+ years) and the wife makes him go EVERYWHERE with her. They are never ever apart, besides work. Let's just say that it gets annoying to be with them after awhile, because they bicker now about EVERYTHING.

But hey, to each his own. It just wouldn't work for me.

[Zophie]

Originally Posted by Pursegrrl

Warning, I'm cranky:

I hate to admit it, but since this thread is titled Confession Time, here's PGal's confession: I'm Jealous.

I'm jealous of people out there who have SOs and can whine until they come along with them to grocery shop or pick up dry cleaning or what have you. I'm sorry, but as a single person if I had to go WITH someone to get groceries or coffee on a whim or anything else mundane I would starve to death.

I've never whined or begged in my LIFE for any of my SOs to go to things with me or take me to the airport or what have you. Sure, I know how to ask for help with home repair or heavy furniture moving or a lift somewhere when I need it but sheesh I guess I'm just too freakin g.d. independent to have someone constantly by my side. I let my SOs know what's important to me and when I need them there and when it's optional for them and they can decide and vice versa.

Does this mean I'm destined to die alone or surrounded by a million cats? LOL, I sure hope not.

And remember, before anyone jumps on this post, I'm a total people person - not a loner by any stretch.

I'm like you. I'd be starving too if I had to wait for a boyfriend to go to the store or whatever. I have an online friend who is married and sometimes while chatting at night I'll tell her I have to go because I have to run an errand. She says I'm brave and she could never go out at night alone. I can't imagine not going out at night alone.

[cheburashka]

I must be an alien or an exception ( I haven't read the entire thread ) but I really like my alone time,hence I really like to go places alone or do errands by myself. I can't imagine spending 24/7 hrs a day with my boyfriend or going everywhere with him. I enjoy spending time with him, but it is also important to me not be attached to him by the hip. I like to have my own interests, do my own thing and hang out with my friends w/out constantly thinking about him. I am a very self-sufficient person and happy that I am this way.

I honestly can't stand the relationships where the girls are obsessed with their boyfriends. I had a couple friends like that and completely stopped any contact with them. Even when we didn't see each other for a couple months and finally got together, all they would want to do is talk about their SO's. I soon found it to be extremely boring and didn't want to spend any time with them. I also felt it was a bit unhealthy too, I guess so did their boyfriends because both got dumped after a while and when I ran into their boyfriends on the street, both said they broke off the relationship for this reason.

[Charles]

Yeah, I need my alone time.

I run errands alone all the time. Hell, last night, Kara went out with some of her friends and I went to a party with mine. We're a bunch of freaks!!

[calicaliente]

OP- you sound just like me. I would much rather spend time doing nothing with someone else than by myself! LOL :)

As for my DH I always want him to come with me wherever I go- but sometimes he's like Nah..don't feel like coming, I want to watch this show, I want to play my game (PS3) etc. So when I start to spend time with my girlfriends going out and about, he starts to notice and gets all butt hurt. I get a hoot out of it!

[Miss Evy Rocks!]

I like my DBF to go places with me, especially to do laundry and grocery shopping I'm quite lazy for that stuff....

But I'm learning to love my alone time more and more now. I don't like it much when he is at my place (he tends to be a bed-hogging bear!), but I really like spending time at his... maybe because of the home cooking and the free cable? I think so