Podcast hosts answer Purpur.Relationships questions

Household chores don't bum me out. I have a robot vacuum, a dishwasher and other appliances that really help me with this.

While cleaning and ironing, I listen to lectures, new music and audiobooks. I cook myself or order food. So I actually enjoy it. My girlfriend just needs to not be helpless around the house and share the chores with me equally.

It depends on what you agree on.

I'd suggest an option where we chip in equally for shared expenses (food, utilities, holidays and so on), and the rest stays personal. I'm definitely against a fully joint budget.

It's time to move in together when you're ready to give time not only to yourself but also to your partner in everyday life. Not because you want to FUCK every night!

If you can't stand someone else's underwear in your washing machine, then no, you're not ready. If you realise you fall asleep just fine on your own and aren't ready for your partner's tossing and turning under the blanket and their snoring, then, again, the moment hasn't come yet.

Ideally a new one, but who are we kidding?)

It doesn't matter how you die, what matters is how they bury you!

I, for one, want my ashes to be made into an artificial coral reef where fish could settle — the very ones that lost their homes because real coral reefs are being destroyed.

I'm more likely to end up raising a child who isn't "mine". For example, my partner's child, or a child I won't be carrying myself.

The same goes for adopted children — I'm ready for them. I want children, and it doesn't matter whether the child is genetically "mine". If I raise them, I'm their parent.

I've been taking antidepressants and a mood stabiliser for two years now: I have cyclothymia and sometimes depressive episodes. In the worst periods it was awful, I don't know how else to describe it.

It's just a hole in your chest, constant tears, being unable to be in a healthy relationship, and a whole lot more. Now I'm consistently doing well, and, honestly, I think that without the pills and therapy my relationship would have been far less successful.