Her Ice, His Rules
I set it on the kitchen table at 5:45am and had my coffee made and my bag ready before she came downstairs.
The rules were reasonable. Separate bathroom schedules, she had mornings at 6:00am, I had 6:45am, no overlap, no ambiguity. No shared meals unless team events required shared attendance. No personal conversations beyond basic household logistics: fridge space, utilities, maintenance issues. Guests required forty-eight hours' notice. Common area usage would be staggered by floor. The microwave was not to be occupied simultaneously, because simultaneous microwave use in a two-person household was a documented source of unnecessary friction and I was not going to have unnecessary friction
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