I promise my heart’s in the right place but I’ve always been brutally unapologetically blunt. I’m not a bitch, but I come off as one. Not changing that for anyone. Anyway here’s the situation:
I don’t understand my generation (millennials who are now in their 30’s and 40’s) and their fixation with living with their parents. Yeah I get it, times are tough, but come on grow the fuck up and live on your own. Start saving money, get a roommate (or a few) and do it! Stop complaining about how your nonprofit do gooder job doesn’t pay enough, leave it and get a real job (that pays better), and grow up. I graduated college with large debt from student loans in the height of the late 2000’s recession. I was kicked out of my parents house and told to get my own place at the end of freshman year. I did it. I saved, I hustled, I sacrificed luxuries to pay my rent, my bills and pay off my student loans and I live in NY, the most expensive city in the US. I did it while working retail and moving up. No help at all from my parents. They moved to Florida and I haven’t seen them in years. I only talk to them on holidays
My ex boyfriend on the other hand left the military during the recession and went three years with no job. He lived off of unemployment benefits and VA benefits and he lived with his mother. He’s now working nonprofit, still lives with his mother (but says he pays half the rent, the utility bills, helps with cooking, groceries and housework). To me it sounds like him and his mom are codependent on each other, because he says if he moves on his own, his mom gets thrown out on the street. And on top of that he has ADHD which means I have to be the fucking adult. Otherwise he’s great, but I couldn’t handle him living with his mom or his bs disorder (which I never believed was real. It’s fake). I broke up with him for that, he now thinks I’m a bitch and my best girlfriend (also adhd and codependent on family because she’s poor) agrees. Was I wrong?
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You might be an opinionated a**hole, but there is no right or wrong here. You have an opinion that you feel strongly about. And THEY have to do what they feel is right for them (whatever that means).
I don't think there's anything wrong with living with your parents so long as you're bettering your stead. But I Don think it's also the parents duty to kick thier adult children out when thier floundering. Just moving out does necessarily mean anything. I'm entering the age where I'm looking towards retirement. And I know someone my age who's working just as fervently as they did when they were young. This is fine if it's by choice. But I was talking to them the other day and I said, "you got an empty nest, why are you working so hard". And they told me, "just because your kids move out doesn't mean the stop coming to you with problems". "The difference is when they were in school they needed 50 bucks for a school project. But now it's they need 500 dollars for ( fill in the blank)". You can imagine how I responded.
Bottom line. Every situation is different. I bought my mother a new furnace for her house last year. A couple years before that I bought her a new fridgerator. Is my mother using me? F*** no! My father passed away and she's trying to live off half his pension. She raised 5 of us. She didn't have the luxury of working. Should she be penalized in her twilight years because she was a great mother? I have to talk her into all this stuff because she would've rather sat in a frozen house than ask her kids for anything.
Again every situation is different. You can look at your life and how it played out and try to advise others. But your story is different from thiers, it's different from mine.
And one last thing. I watched a program on the rise of multigenerational housing. At one time this was a norm in this country. It's not weird if it became more a norm again. It just speaks to what we are as a couple try right now.
Not even saying this in a mean way but honestly it sounds like you’re just being a hater. Don’t get me wrong, I’m moved out and live with my boyfriend but if I wanted to I could totally move back in with my parents and I don’t see why it would be such an issue. Like why do you feel as though people have to struggle as part of adulthood just because you did? If you’re going to go split rent, utilities and whatever else with someone else or even roommates, what makes it any different than doing this with parents? Especially if they’re chill and don’t step on their kids toes?
I think if your in your 30s you should have own place or roomates
I agree. All these 30 to 40 something year olds whining about they can’t afford rent or homes. Yeah it’s tough to do it on a single income but I do it. It’s called cutting spending, saving money and getting an extra job if you have to. So you don’t think I’m wrong for that then?
I can only speak for myself. I didn't live at home in my 30s