Having your own space

A while ago, someone (house bound) who came to visit us at the boat, asked me how we manage when we “need our own space.”

In my opinion space is relative. For example, we once calculated how much space we actually used in our house. Turned out, (when the kids had flown the nest), apart from walking from room to room & up the stairs there wasn’t much difference:

• Bathroom – not exactly a social space anyway, but never mind
• Master bedroom – no comment
• 2 other bedrooms we never went in
• Dining room – never used except when we had visitors, oh & to walk through to get outside via the patio doors
• Office space – used a lot, but still mobile
• Kitchen – necessary, used once a day
• Living room – only ever used a third of it, the bit near the TV

So you could say “ahh but you had different rooms to sit in.” The irony is, if Dave was watching something I considered boring on TV in the living room. I’d still take my laptop in there & sit “in the same space” each doing our “own thing.”

However, I do believe you have to have a good relationship to live aboard a ship boat together, but you can still have “your own space” even if you’re in the same room. As already proven at the house with bags of space to spare…

The only time there HAS to be space around us is when I’m doing a workout, simply so as Dave doesn’t end up with a hand weight up his nose. But that’s ok, he goes in the boudoir & watches TV, or reads, or uses his laptop, or he’s sat outside fishing. The latter of which has nothing whatsoever to do with avoiding the potential of getting a dumb-bell in the face anyway…

The thing is, you don’t necessarily need physical space to have “your own space” – except when one of you (me) is doing a workout with Davina wotsername’s DVD…

So in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter at all, & if necessary we still have different rooms to sit in, without having to make a decision as to which one…? And I haven’t even needed to mention the lux con as a place to retire to so I won’t…