You might think that one would be the loneliest number for anyone who lives alone, but if you’ve ever baked cookies in your bathrobe or eaten dinner standing up in the kitchen with no pants on, you’ll agree with last week’s New York Times article about the freedom and perils of living alone.  Song writer Harry Nilsson might have coined the idea in 1967 but for many, living alone is not quite as lonely as one might guess.

The recent article said that today, 1 in ever 4 American homes is occupied by someone living alone. In Manhattan, sky-high rent be damned, the number is nearly 1 in 2. From a person who lives alone, I can say that I wholeheartedly agree with almost every point made in this article. Living alone encourages you to do things you wouldn’t normally do if you lived with someone else (Bra on the kitchen table? Been there). That’s not to say that everyone who lives alone is a freaky nudist slob, but when there is nobody there to judge you for eating peanut butter straight from the jar, sometimes that seems like the right thing to do.

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