Do you still live at home?

[recluse]

I feel a loser for living at home at almost 28::

I'm almost embarassed about it, but the truth is i think i'd get lonely in an empty house on my own. Also i'm stuck in a rut where i feel comfortable living at home::

 

[Riiya]

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but you do know that someday your parents will die and you'll be living in an empty house either way?

I really don't think it's a good idea to live with your parents because you're afraid of the challenge of living on your own.

 

[antipop621]

I'm 23 and I live alone. I moved out at 21. I had a roomate for about a year, but for financial reasons (his) it didn't really work out.

While I do have my own place, my mother does pay half of my rent, so I'm not financially independent yet.

 

[recluse]

That's also my problem; Most people i know of share but i have no one to share with, and to pay bills and everything else, i'm not sure if i could manage alone.

 

[Perfidion]

No. If I were forced to co-habit with my parents I'd hang myself after a week.

 

[Sloth]

I'm 21 and I moved out of home at the beginning of the year. I envisaged myself living there till I was 30 but my parents were driving me nuts.

 

[recluse]

To be honest my parents are driving me nuts too, they are such stress heads. I could do with being away from negative people because it makes my anxiety and depression worse.

 

[Psychedelicious]

Bang Bang

Well I obviously do right now because I'm 16, but I don't want to for a really long time. I just couldn't let myself do it, I really want to move out before I am 20. I wouldn't have any problem being alone, I don't know if it would be good for me. I'm already alone here a lot anyways, for days at a time having no idea where anyone is. Sometimes I don't understand why parents can let their children live with them for so long. I don't think my mom to let me live with her past a certain age, and I certainly wouldn't want her too. So uhmm my goal is to do it in like 2 years, but I doubt I will.

For people who live with their parents for along time, doesn't it kind of feel like you've never lived a life of your own?

 

[Remus]

I moved out of home at 17, I like my own rules and found it unbearable tolerating other peoples rules

 

[kayelle]

I was always dying to move out when I was younger, like when I was a young teenager, and then my anxiety came along and it made it more difficult. I moved out in my third year of university, and I moved into the middle of the city with two friends, in a small apartment above a restaurant, with a few pubs on the same street, and it made my anxiety have a field day! I'm back home now because unfortunately I'm really dependent on my parents because of my agoraphobia, and I hate it. I want to move out this September though, so I'm really really hoping I can do it and live better and enjoy myself.
I just hate being so dependant on my parents, I want to be independent and my own boss, in control of what I do whenever I want to do it.

 

[Felgen]

Can't afford to move out yet. Norway is infamous for it's high rental fees.

 

[SilentDarkness]

I really don't think it's a good idea to live with your parents because you're afraid of the challenge of living on your own.

This is the exact "virtue" of modern day culture that really annoys me. Expecting that when a child comes of age they are to move out. That they aren't to rely on their family anymore and must adopt a "new family" called a "circle of friends" that they should live with and spend time with.

The idea of residing with your family as a single adult is no longer encouraged and it's sad. The fact that adults feel shame about living with their families is absurd.

 

[bleach]

Yes I live with my parents still. I moved out for two years and had to move back. It sucks.