Why it is a pleasure when your love is away for the evening

Don't get me wrong, I find living together the coziest thing ever. Maybe that's why I enjoy the evenings when he's out even more. I dare say it's the same the other way around, not that he would admit it out loud. We highlight the benefits of being home alone for you.

You can shop online all evening, check out, leave your credit card lying around, and you get zero comments. Not even a raised eyebrow. I think it's especially a pleasure if you shop as much as we do here, but I think it's worth mentioning.

Eat what you want and in any order. My boyfriend is anti-curry (I didn't even know that was possible), but I whip up the finest curries on these kinds of evenings. Just large portions for myself in the pan, because hey, they're vegetables. And in case of emergency, you can always have sushi delivered for yourself. You just have to hide the packaging, because significant others can get jealous of single portions of sushi.

That drink at work can get out of hand, because it's your turn to cook, but it doesn't matter if you don't cook. If you come home at nine o'clock, no one cares.

You can be a bit of the slobby version of yourself. Slumped on the couch with a bowl of curry on your chest, watching another Netflix show, that kind of work. In your ugly sweatpants, without mascara and the scented candle on to mask the curry smell.

Or you can transform your living room into an upgraded beauty salon. Feet in a chamomile tea bath (works like a charm to keep them soft and smooth), nails painted, face covered under a layer of charcoal and spa away. You can just lose the cap of the nail polish remover, no one will say it stinks. When your loved one comes home, you're curled up on the couch with a scrubbed glow in a bathrobe. It definitely didn't take four full hours to achieve.

After the eat-drink-slob-beauty session, you leave everything as it is. Inside, I'm actually a man. Lilian doesn't understand at all that I enjoy not cleaning up, but that's how it is. I have a rather tidy man at home, who is team Lilian, and who also doesn't understand my talent for making the house explode in five minutes. Anyway, you can leave everything lying around until your loved one comes home.

The remote control is yours and yours alone (so mine). I've been forced to watch Die Hard on Sunday nights for four weeks straight, but you don't have that. You easily send Noah and Alison away without a fuss and start with YOU. Hoppa.

If he/she is away for a whole night, then it's worth sleeping crosswise. Because it can.

In short, if your significant other has a night of drinking too much, you should encourage that. It's also a hundred times more fun when your love has cooked for you the next evening and you snuggle up on the couch to watch a movie together.