I was an absolute nightmare to raise. I fought my parents on everything, and broke every rule they gave me. When I turned 16 they emancipated me and told me to leave.

I found a couple other's my age that were emancipated and stayed with one of them for about a month. Eventually I moved in with my girlfriend, who I married when I turned 18. We got divorced 5 years later.

I get along decently with both my parents (who divorced shortly after tossing me out) and am now remarried. I made a c**p-load of mistakes, and brought it all on myself. But I do think I'm a better person now because of those lessons than I would have been staying with them. Eventually I would have done something big and ended up behind bars.

Most of us don’t 🤷🏼‍♀️. My 20 and 18 year old sons live at home still, and likely will through college, and potentially longer based on the job and housing market. The same was true for both myself and my partner when we were younger. I didn’t move out of my childhood house until I moved in with my husband actually.

My 33yo son is still at home. WFH and is saving up to buy a van to travel. He pays us nothing, but when I got out of the hospital, he waited on me like a champ.

My kids are always welcome in my home, no matter how old they become!!

My mom said I'm welcome home anytime or free to leave. Whatever i do, she'll support me. She's an immigrant as well and thinks americans are a*s backward for kicking kids out at 18. Says, "That's why they end up dying alone in retirement homes.".