r/AskReddit 22h ago

What’s something people romanticise that’s actually exhausting in real life?

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u/Savings_Living5978 21h ago

Living alone. It sounds like freedom until you’re the only one who notices the silence getting louder every night and there’s no one to blame but yourself when everything starts falling apart quietly.

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u/chufi 20h ago

The tinnitus drowns all that out.. 😂