5. What are your family and friends saying about it? You’ve seen it time and time again: your friends and family are almost always right. Asking three or four loved ones who have diverse opinions can give a pretty good indication of whether your decision to move in together is the right one.
6. Are you comfortable with confrontation, with your partner? If you’re not good at putting a fight in the past, when you’re living together you can’t really just take off for a few days – you need to push past the confrontation into a solution rather than sulking.
7. Are you open to move into a new space that will be neutral, and not your home or his? If you move into his place, or vice versa, one of you might feel like it’s more your space than the other’s. The experience should start off equal, not territorial. Sharing is caring!
8. What are the expectations of different responsibilities? Divvying up chores are a big part of living together, and if you can’t reach harmonious agreements that you’v decided on before sharing a space, it can cause a lot of conflict.
9. On a related note, is he super messy? Being an unpaid maid while living with someone is not the same as being two mutually responsible individuals. Someone might clean up nicely for when their girl comes over, but you can’t hide anything when you live together, so if your home transforms into a pig sty, don’t say we didn’t warn you!

