To Live Together Or Not That Is The Question

It's been on the TV recently that perhaps it is a good idea to keep some space between yourself and your loved one, and rather than live together, maybe it would work better if couples lived apart. So what do we all think on this?

I can speak from experience for both matters here.  I have lived and am currently living with my partner, and I also have had a relationship where I was not living with my partner. Now from my own personal experience,  I love living with my fella, we get more time together, and he gets to spend time with his son, however him living with me has only been a recent thing and we are 7 weeks into it at the moment, believe me there are times that I could go mad, and then there are times when I sit there and think if he wasn't here I would be missing him like crazy.  Although we have been in a relationship for a number of years he has always lived alone and just stayed over at my place half the week,  however since he busted his shoulder badly, and was unable to do anything for himself, he moved in with me so I could help him.  It has been an experience, but an enjoyable one. I do think that a lot of living with each other you do have to kind of adapt to the way each of you are. I find it difficult to get motivated to do the housework and such like when I have people around, I feel like they are under my feet and I just simply cannot get on. I like to eat certain foods and watch certain programmes and other silly little things like that, but when you live with your partner they may not like the same things as you, and that can take time to get used to. The hardest thing for me I think, is the fact I have been so used to having my own space I'm just not used to having someone else sharing my space full time,  and for me it is a learning curve and one that I am slowly becoming accustomed too.

I know I should be over the moon about the fact I'm living with my fella,  but I've been there before with another guy and I was left alone, and I think that after that I am very wary and would rather be on my own than to be left in that kind of situation again. 

Of course there are going to be a lot of people who just don't agree with me,  but that's what we are all about,  we would lead very boring lives if we all had the same views... Dont you think?!?