living with parents

[uwwsweetie]

I am happy to say that I still live with my parents. I dont really calling moving into the dorms for a year moving out but it did grant me more freedoms. I love my parents dearly and we RARELY get through a week without arguing but I think it is a good situation. I will have to repeat everyone else in the free home cooked meals. YUM. But I wouldnt give up living with them because of the free rent. It's funny though - they impose SOOOOOOOOOOOO many more rules than they did when I was in HS. I think that's cause they are scared taht I have grown up... anyway... i dont know if any of that made sense.


Laura

[juniorgrrl]

Even though I live at home, my mom is NOT my maid. I help out with all the housework, cooking, laundry, etc. She did my laundry a few weeks ago and I was so thankful - I never expect it.

FI is in the same situation. He lives at home, but he helps with everything around the house, cooking at all.

For us, its more of a situation of having parents as roomates. Except with a few more rules.

[rhosigmazeta]

I moved out and then moved back home, It was a hard adjustment...but as long as you respect them, they respect you...which can pay off in the long run b/c right now they are helpin me get a new car...woohoo anyways thats besides the point.

[Shine]

I lived down by campus at ASU for three years, and I've just moved home to finish up at the west campus so I can save money.

I am still adjusting. It's harder than I thought it would be. But then I look at my sister who decided to stay home from college and she's doing all the same stuff I used to do when I was her age, but my mom is there to see it all and my mom is going NUTS and freaking out about everything. I told her the other day that I did all of these things within a few weeks of moving out.

We agreed that ignorance is bliss and that going away to college is probably a good thing for both parent and child.

But I JUST got a car last week, and my mom is starting to really clamp down on wanting to know where I'm going and getting worried when I take my time going places and don't let her know. I don't even want to think what she's going to do when the year starts and my friends are back in town and I'm driving down to Tempe to see them all the time.

[justamom]

Read Dear Abby today...really sad. The girl finished one year and moved home for the summer.

Anyone remember the thread last year about the girl who moved back home and her Dad took her cell phone away?

[Eirene_DGP]

Other than moving back home after my sophomore year for the summer, no. My mom and I argue on a daily basis so I try to go home only on holidays. It would suck to graduate college and have to move back home after having complete freedom.

[Kristin AGD]

When we all finally left the nest, my mom bought herself a two bedroom patio home. Well as justamom states statics are that at least one of us would return. At one point or another all four of us have stayed with mom.
I moved in when I left my ex (which is the best thing I ever did) and I brought my little one with me. Then a few months later my sister broke up with her boyfriend and she moved home. A little bit after that my youngest sister got engaged, her future hubby was deployed and she didn't want to get a new lease because she would be moving, so she moved home for a few months while we prepared for the wedding!
What I learned is that each one of us had a different relationship with mom, and a different way of dealing with being at home. Mom & I fight the most. The youngest is like best friends with mom. The middle wants mom to take care of her. It is really funny.
Needless to say, my daughter loved those months having that small house crowded with girls. Always someone to play with, even though the youngest was 23. And last year when no one was home, I think my mom might have missed us. When my last lease was up she talked me into moving home again.