Very good advice from everyone, thank you so much!!
The bank accounts will definitely stay separate. I don't know if we'll get a joint account to pay bills with but I won't give up my account, thats for sure.
He said he'll pay a bigger chunk of the rent but I'll be working by then so we'll see how we decide to split everything. The financial stuff is the biggest stressor but I'm not too worried about it. We'll both be saving money once we move in together and start splitting the bills. I don't think we'll be splitting the cable bill though....he pays in obscene amount for all his sports packages and I won't have a part in that one lol. We'll still pay our own cell phones and I'll pay for internet because thats more my thing than his (though he is excited about having a good computer and internet though).
He is so incredibly laid back. Nothing really gets to him. He's very calm in crisis situations. When my car was broken into he went right into crisis mode that he's trained for at work. Look at the facts, and what action can be taken. He has struggled with anxiety his whole life, so he has good coping mechanisms for situations like that.
One thing that I'm a little concerned about is his cats. He lets them walk on everything. My cat has never been allowed up on kitchen counters or the coffee table etc, so thats gonna have to change......
He's not a messy guy. Neither one of us keep a spotless place; we keep it tidy but we're both bad with dusting and stuff. I go through spurts where I dust haha, so I'm not too worried about the housecleaning. He never even uses his kitchen LOL!!! Whenever I've made us dinner here, he's good about helping clean stuff up.
And at his place, he puts the toilet paper on the way I do hahahah!!!! He does let his bathroom get messy but guess what....we'll have two.
I'm gonna give him the bathroom off the bedroom and I'll take the one in the hall so that the public bathroom will be clean for guests haha.
I've been watching ever since we first started talking about moving in together. He's really very very considerate. He likes to fall asleep to music but I can't sleep to his music. When I stay at his place I put ear plugs in haha. But usually he's up later than me listening to his music, and at the new place the stereo won't be near the bedroom. At my place he falls alseep to the tv just fine so I don't think we'll have problems there, but I do plan on bringing that up.
We both use tmobile for our phones so we're thinking about getting the hotspot plan that they have, where all your calls at home are free and you get a wireless router. I can't wait to have wireless at home so that when I finally get a laptop I can be online anywhere in the house. I want to make the second bedroom the office, but I want to be on the computer with him in the living room too....so hopefully I'll get a laptop by then.
Anyway....I think I'm hitting most of the bases here.....does anyone have any other ideas? This is good stuff! I'm so glad I brought this up!