Moving in together is one of those relationship milestones that sounds romantic in theory and reveals everything in practice. The grocery list alone can tell you more about compatibility than six months of dates. Who buys what, who notices when something runs out, who considers avocado oil a staple and who considers it an extravagance…
They are the daily friction of two people trying to share a life, and they have a way of surfacing much bigger conversations when nobody is quite ready to have them. One couple had a very specific argument over some arguably ‘luxury’ items and the semantics of the word ‘roommate.’ It didn’t take long for that word to be completely out of the picture altogether.
