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I feel pretty old to be with my mom im 22 going back to school so I might be there for a while. Im still trying to figure everything out I have an Idea Im not COMPLETELY lost but I need some work.
Don't feel bad. Like someone mentioned, it's so much more expensive now to live on your own. Save, save, save, and most of all--treat your mother with respect! (I get the impression you would). It's her house, her rules. I trust that you will soon be out on your own and in a good financial situation when you do so.
I was 18 when I moved out of my parent's house, but wasn't on my own technically (able to support myself financially) until about 5 years ago (I'm 35 now).
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23 years old in last year of undergrad. I was lucky enough to be living and working somewhere COL was dirt cheap. I had had it up to here with my mom's strict BS rules and her treating me like a kid so I went out one day signed a lease and bolted.
Let’s see...I went to college at 17 but don’t really consider that moving out. After college, I moved back in to my mom’s junky basement apartment. Got a job and after a few months, started paying rent to my mom (she made me – best thing she could have done).
Stayed for about 1 year and then got another job that I needed to travel for so I lived at home on weekends and some weekdays. 2 yrs later, I kicked myself out – I was 24, too old to be living there and wanted my own place. I’ve been wanting to go before then but didn’t (safety net thing) but when something presented itself, I immediately took it with gusto, seeing it as an opportunity even though I knew I could completely fail.
I moved over 4 hrs away. My mother was sad to see me go so far but didn’t put up a fuss to stop me. She was just worried. There were some big challenges but look at me now. I’m over 40 and doing very well. I’m proud of myself.
Do what you think will make you proud of yourself, even if it’s hard or seems like it may set you back. Because feeling good about yourself won’t be a setback.
I moved back home for 3 months after college graduation, worked 2 jobs, packed my backpack and went to Europe for 6 months. Came back to my parents' house, then got my first job within a couple of weeks, and when I got my first paycheck I moved into my own apartment and that was it. I was 21.
I was paying half my take home pay in rent, which was tight, so I took in a roommate eventually. There is always a way if you are motivated to be independent.
I feel pretty old to be with my mom im 22 going back to school so I might be there for a while. Im still trying to figure everything out I have an Idea Im not COMPLETELY lost but I need some work.
3 months...the summer before I left for college (in 1987) 3,000 miles away...and I have never been back.
Not that I don't love/like them and they me, but yeah. Being an adult is where it is at.
I was around 20 when I moved out and around 25 when I moved back from California. I was ready to move out after 2 months but the roof was leaking so bad on the house that I had to put a new one on. It delayed my departure from hell another two or three months. I can't tell you how soul crushing it was living with my alcoholic mother and brother for ten minutes, let alone a couple of months. Putting the roof on the house turned out to be a good thing because I wound up owning the nightmare after my mother died. Had I not put the roof on when I did the structural damage we had to repair would have been even more extensive. I also had to put another roof on it, but the house has made us a ton of money. Poetic justice for all the years of torture I had to endure there with the alcoholics.
How long did it take you to move out of your parents house??
So fast (my teens), because I'm that good!
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