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When housemates discover conflicting visions of domestic belonging

My roommates and I created this whole vision of intentional living together, but six months in we're realizing that we each came here with completely different definitions of what domestic belonging looks like. Some of us want deep intimacy and shared everything, others want respectful coexistence, and we're all feeling like we're failing at something we never actually agreed on.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is facing the reality that their shared living experiment is failing because they never established a common understanding of what belonging in shared domestic space requires.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with What belonging is — a philosophical definition?”

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