The benefit to being in a relationship is that when you didn’t bring any money to the farmers market you can say “buy me this celery root,” and then you will be able to make this soup later today. Also sex, feelings, etc.

A not-benefit to being in a relationship is that if you are a person who is terrible at sleeping when appropriate (nighttime, in the morning before the alarm goes off) and your partner is a person who is so good at sleeping and not so good at being talked to when he is trying to sleep, you may find yourself walking home at six in the morning as to not disturb him with your restlessness.

Relatedly, my neighbors have a rooster and the cock-a-doodle-do noises he make sound like they are coming out of an old alarm clock, a tin one for children.