How do you feel about it? I am currently 24 won't turn 25 until 8 more months but I still am at home. I have not found a stable job since college graduation almost 2 years ago all I have is a summer job I have worked since college. Thankfully it is a lot of hours and allowed me to pay all my school myself and I didn't owe one cent to anyone after I was done. Its good money for the time it is but I would be considered in poverty based on my earnings. Which is why I am looking for something year round that uses my degree or at least something that pays ok.
But to answer my question I don't like the current circumstances in how I live at home but I also don't have plans of moving out at least not anytime soon. I help out by running errands doing chores my laundry and paying for some of the groceries. But my parents help me with my car insurance my health my add a line phone buy a lot of the groceries and I don't get charged rent. I offer to try to give them money but I get turned down most of the time. So I do what I can trying to pick up as much of the grocery bill as possible. I just feel a little sense of humiliation that I can't pay for a lot of my stuff. I told them that the agreement is once I find a regular job I will start to pay for my car insurance phone and I will at least give them something small for staying here.
Otherwise I enjoy the company and my parent do as well. I consider my brothers my best friends and we do pretty much everything together and we all have common interests. They are a little more social than I am and have girlfriends but they're also 5 and 9 years younger than me. I come from a family that very much values get togethers and we all get together for everyone's birthdays and holidays because that's what my grandpa did when he was younger.
I know it's pretty shameful in American culture to not want to be independent and move out on your own but I don't think I will ever get married and I don't know if I could realistically live on my own with my anxiety and depression. Depression is something that runs on my family grandma had it mom had it and now I think I was the unlucky one in my family to get it.
My parents eventually want to get a get away house down south so at least starting out they will be staying down there in the winters when they retire in 10 years. Eventually they will be down permanently. My mom says that but she can't stand to be away from me and my brothers for more than a few days. She says it will be hard if anyone of us ever move out because we have that strong of a bond. She had me very young we share the same birthday and my mom turned 17 when she had me and my dad was 18. I think that's why we have such a good relationship with each other both my parents. But they said we will be the ones to get the house eventually. There are about 6 different people that live around me that are family. Grandma and grandpa live across the street, aunt and uncle live right next to them, great grandma lives close, cousins live across the street, and another aunt and uncle live close next to them. All of my family in general all live within 20 minutes of each other.
With the way I grew up with my family and how we always do everything together I just don't know if I will ever move out. If I ever do meet someone maybe I would build a place on our land since we have the room but if I don't I probably will just be here help my parents and give them company and if they do leave I will take care of the house and they can always come back here from down south whenever they want.
But to answer my question I don't like the current circumstances in how I live at home but I also don't have plans of moving out at least not anytime soon. I help out by running errands doing chores my laundry and paying for some of the groceries. But my parents help me with my car insurance my health my add a line phone buy a lot of the groceries and I don't get charged rent. I offer to try to give them money but I get turned down most of the time. So I do what I can trying to pick up as much of the grocery bill as possible. I just feel a little sense of humiliation that I can't pay for a lot of my stuff. I told them that the agreement is once I find a regular job I will start to pay for my car insurance phone and I will at least give them something small for staying here.
Otherwise I enjoy the company and my parent do as well. I consider my brothers my best friends and we do pretty much everything together and we all have common interests. They are a little more social than I am and have girlfriends but they're also 5 and 9 years younger than me. I come from a family that very much values get togethers and we all get together for everyone's birthdays and holidays because that's what my grandpa did when he was younger.
I know it's pretty shameful in American culture to not want to be independent and move out on your own but I don't think I will ever get married and I don't know if I could realistically live on my own with my anxiety and depression. Depression is something that runs on my family grandma had it mom had it and now I think I was the unlucky one in my family to get it.
My parents eventually want to get a get away house down south so at least starting out they will be staying down there in the winters when they retire in 10 years. Eventually they will be down permanently. My mom says that but she can't stand to be away from me and my brothers for more than a few days. She says it will be hard if anyone of us ever move out because we have that strong of a bond. She had me very young we share the same birthday and my mom turned 17 when she had me and my dad was 18. I think that's why we have such a good relationship with each other both my parents. But they said we will be the ones to get the house eventually. There are about 6 different people that live around me that are family. Grandma and grandpa live across the street, aunt and uncle live right next to them, great grandma lives close, cousins live across the street, and another aunt and uncle live close next to them. All of my family in general all live within 20 minutes of each other.
With the way I grew up with my family and how we always do everything together I just don't know if I will ever move out. If I ever do meet someone maybe I would build a place on our land since we have the room but if I don't I probably will just be here help my parents and give them company and if they do leave I will take care of the house and they can always come back here from down south whenever they want.