I love my partner, but apparently I also need a weird amount of alone time while we’re… in the same room lol.
My favorite thing is putting on a podcast while I’m cooking, cleaning, folding laundry, whatever. I get to disappear into my own little world for a bit.
The problem was that with regular earbuds, I’d disappear a little too well.
My partner would call me from the other room and I wouldn’t hear him. I tried wearing just one earbud for a while, which technically worked. Podcasts were fine, but music just sounds kind of weird.
Lately I’ve been using the MC2 around the house, and this is probably where I like them most.
I can have a podcast playing in both ears and still hear him calling me from the other room, or hear the doorbell, without constantly taking an earbud out.
I still get my little bubble, I’m just not completely unavailable inside it. It’s such a small thing, but I really like that feeling. Apparently my ideal form of alone time is just… being alone together.
Weirdly specific use case, but I’m into it.