I spent my whole 20's not cohabitating with women/only living together for a couple months as a temporary measure. Made the mistake of letting a woman live with me in my 30's and NEVER AGAIN.
Let me tell you, the difference between casual relationships and temporarily living together/staying over and actually moving in together is NIGHT AND DAY.
Before, the women I was dating/fucking would come over, fuck and leave. They would bring food, cook for me, and clean my apartment - but never touch my personal items, just make the bed, do the dishes etc.
Now actually having lived with a woman, I've noticed that they act like they OWN the place. EVERYTHING has to be their way, and if it's not they will slowly try to nag you, suggest things and move things, get surprise "deals" they bring home, or get female family to agree about "how much better such and such would work/look".
My retard ex wanted the damn dresser IN THE CLOSET, and made a huge deal about it . Every day new junk we didn't need from amazon would come in the mail. Even a month after she left I was still getting amazon packages of stupid useless junk in the mail.
She wanted complete control over the whole apartment, then complained I didn't do anything or help her. My response was "you control everything, it's your apartment, you take care of it".
By the end of it the only things that were mine were a couple Victorian lady pictures she "approved of" on the walls, the clothes in the dresser, and my tools in the back of the closet.
After withdrawing from the relationship and the maintenance of the apartment more and more over the year we lived together, the passive agressiveness finally quit. She was somewhat pleasant to be around for the last week until she suddenly disappeared. Good riddance!
It's been a year and I finally have the last of her useless shit out of my apartment. NEVER AGAIN. Women are mindless hoarders and consumers, it's live giving a pre teen a credit card, there's no sense to anything other than how it looks and makes her "feel", and if others would like it.
Now that all her useless crap is out, I've slowly been replacing all the IKEA cardboard furniture with solid wood antiques and bought a 52" smart tv. Put the computer in the bedroom and opened up the living space.