5 Co-living Bonding Ideas – When the Fun Runs Out

So, you only see your roommates at night or when you are all rushing off for work? Bummer! Work can put a strain on relationships and cause rifts between people. This is why you need to break the monotony, and a work lunch is the perfect solution. Plan to meet for lunch with your co-living partners and spend time catching up. You can take turns to meet closer to each person’s workplace and even try out each one’s favourite lunch spot during workdays.

Cooking together when sharing one co-living space is a good way to bond with people. You can each choose to cook a dish for the meal, in one kitchen. It’s a lovely ‘holiday vibe’ kind of experience to have everyone chatting and cooking together. Most modern co-living spaces like lyf by Ascott offer tenants all modern accessories, and fully equipped kitchens, as well as well-designed bedrooms and comfortable common spaces as some of the standard features enjoyed by co-living communities across the world.

Why not bring back the happy banter and loud chatter on the weekends. Book a date with all your co-living mates and plan a fun-filled couple of hours playing Escape Room games, which require team participation. It’s a great bonding process and also good to rekindle your closeness with roommates you probably only see in the mornings and before bedtime.

Make the effort to get to know your roommates better, and that means meeting their friends too. Plan to invite over your space-sharing buddy’s friends over for a ‘get acquainted meal’ and you may end up forming bonds with people sharing your roommate’s life. Making the effort to hang out with another’s friends is not a difficult task, as you can simply ask to join them if they are going out, although your extension of an invite for them to join you for a home-cooked meal, meet at your favourite bar, join for a movie etc. will place you in their favour even before they arrive.

Since most people sharing co-living spaces come from different societies and even countries, it is quite interesting to make the effort to learn about each other’s culture. Even if you all are from the same country, chances are you are from different cities. Either way, it’s a great excuse to plan a fun game. Take turns to learn about something unique to each person; these might include traits that are found in their town or country, languages, customs and traditions their moms can’t help following, for example. All topics are great at opening people up to disclose something personal about them, which is deal to form lasting relationships and enjoy successful co-living.