Here is what I did and what I read in February 2021

I celebrated Valentine’s day this year by moving in with a romantic partner.

She recently had to correct me that our official move-in date was actually a little after our 3-month anniversary, not 4 months like I’d somehow thought. 3 months feels like an incredibly short amount of time to be dating someone before moving in together, but extraordinary circumstances greased the wheels of the decision - some of her roommates rather abruptly left, and I’d been getting cabin fever from sitting at my parents’ house for months on end.

So far S. and I have made it two whole weeks without imploding, which is a very good sign as far as I can tell; C. and I ran into friction almost constantly, including from the first night that I brought a bunch of stuff over to her house to move in with her. Cohabiting with a parter again has brought up a lot of tension and fear in me that built up over living with C. and never had anywhere to really go; luckily that tension and fear hasn’t been warranted here a…