For those of us that are homebodies, there's nothing better than spending time in the comfort of our own homes - especially if we can have the space to ourselves for a little while.
But one woman has said she's no longer able to have that alone time since moving into her boyfriend's house two years ago, as they both spend a lot of time indoors so never have a chance to get away from one another.
The 30-year-old woman explained her boyfriend works from home and rarely goes out, and while she spends half of her working week in an office, she wants to be able to occasionally escape her partner at home, too.
So, the woman has been encouraging her 41-year-old partner to pick up a hobby that will take him out of the house more often - even though he isn't interested in it and is quite happy at home.
In a post on Reddit, she wrote: "I moved into my boyfriend's house almost two years ago. Things have been going smoothly so far, bar a few disagreements here and there. He works from home 100% of the time, and he is a homebody. I work from home 2-3 days a week, so we do spend quite a bit of time together. I lived alone before moving in, and I loved having my own place to myself.
"Now, as he is literally ALWAYS home, that never happens anymore. He doesn't have hobbies that will get him to go outside. He very rarely goes somewhere without me, like to a bar or a party for the evening. When he does go out for social events, I'm going along with him. I leave the house on my own much more often to go to work or visit family or friends.
"That leads us to our latest argument. Lately, I've mentioned to him several times that I would like to have the house to myself sometimes. It's not like he's annoying me when he's home, and I'm not planning to do anything sketchy but I guess I just need to be home alone sometimes. If you're a quiet introvert like me you probably know the feeling. Having someone else in my living space all the time is starting to really bug me."
Her boyfriend initially agreed to make an effort to go out more often, but when a friend contacted him this week to invite him out for drinks, he turned down the offer and said he "didn't feel like it".
She added: "After our last talk he said he would make an effort to leave the house more often but that never happened. Last night, a friend hit him up to go grab drinks, so I was hopeful that he would finally go out, but he said he didn't feel like it. So I snapped and reminded him about what we discussed and that I wished he'd been to see his friend and gone out on his own for once.
"He feels hurt that I want him out of the house sometimes, he feels like I'm forcing him to leave and that I hate his company but it's not really what this is about. I would like him to WANT to go out more, I don't want him to just leave and wander out alone. I told him I'd like to have my evening alone at home once every two months, which seems pretty reasonable I believe."
But commenters on the post have been mostly on the man's side, with many saying it was unreasonable of the woman to move into his house and then "push him out of it".
One person said: "I would literally never leave my property ever again if I didn't have to. I would hate this so much. You moved into his safe place and now you are pushing him out of it."
While another added: "You moved in with HIM knowing how he is. Now you want him to leave HIS house so you can have some alone time."
And a third posted: "It's his house, and presumably has more than one room, just go and sit by yourself for a while - you're forcing him out of his own space for literally no reason."
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