Renovate your relationship - a manual for men
Renovate your Relationship is a resource to help men maintain their relationships by getting them to think about the practical side of relationship maintenance.
Read moreMoving in with your partner can be an emotional, physical and financial challenge. Here, MensLine Australia looks at the main things to consider before taking this step.
Moving in with your partner can be an emotional, physical and financial challenge. However, if it’s the right time for both of you, it can also be heaps of fun and a great experience.
Do you have a regular income to pay for all the ongoing costs of renting such as bond, rent, food and utilities? If you haven’t had to pay for these things in the past, it is easy to underestimate how much everything costs.
You might decide it’s not a good time to move when you’re in the middle of exams or coping with other major stresses.
Moving in with your partner will change the dynamics of a relationship, so it’s important that you don’t feel pressured into it and are moving in for the right reasons (e.g. that you want to share your life with someone, not, for example, because your sick of sharing the bathroom).
Although you might be happy with your decision to move in with your partner, you might find that your family or friends do not approve. This might be for a number of reasons, a common one being they might feel that you’re too young to move in together.
Some ways to deal with this situation:
Living together changes the dynamics of a relationship as you spend a lot more time together. While this is generally good, it can also make you a lot more aware of your differences and each other’s annoying habits. If you don’t address them early on in a sensitive way they can really start to eat away at you and cause a lot of tension in the relationship.
Suggestions for adjusting to living together:
MensLine Australia has professional counsellors available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, providing confidential and anonymous information and support for all relationship issues.
Call us on 1300 78 99 78 or access online counselling.
Renovate your Relationship is a resource to help men maintain their relationships by getting them to think about the practical side of relationship maintenance.
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