Parents: Living With Them
Created | Updated Jul 8, 2005
Face it! You need them. The most unfortunate fact is that you wouldn't have been born without them. Of course, life only really begins when you get away from them.
That's when you begin to appreciate your parents as individuals and, hopefully, vice-versa.
In the meantime you have to train yourself in anger-management, because life in your parents house is definitely an excellent training ground for the rest of it; nothing's as challenging.
While you're there though, certain difficulties may come up in avoiding cerebral damage from the mental torture you're exposed to.
To help cope, here are some things to do if you're still living with your parents:
- Run;
- Get a job;
- Get a house (for which you will need money, leaving this option irrevocably linked with the second);
- Join the army;
- Get married (although this can cause even more difficult lifestyles);
- Live with it.
If it's absolutely impossible to get away from your parents'house in the foreseeable future, you can always try to work things out so that you rarely get to see them. This will almost give you the special visiting status you acquire after moving out, which is the determinant factor for the improvement of the parents-offspring relationship.
Not quite though, because you are still depending on them and under their roof, and don't think they'll forget it or shy away at throwing it at your face every change they get.
That's when you begin to appreciate your parents as individuals and, hopefully, vice-versa.
In the meantime you have to train yourself in anger-management, because life in your parents house is definitely an excellent training ground for the rest of it; nothing's as challenging.
While you're there though, certain difficulties may come up in avoiding cerebral damage from the mental torture you're exposed to.
To help cope, here are some things to do if you're still living with your parents:
- Run;
- Get a job;
- Get a house (for which you will need money, leaving this option irrevocably linked with the second);
- Join the army;
- Get married (although this can cause even more difficult lifestyles);
- Live with it.
If it's absolutely impossible to get away from your parents'house in the foreseeable future, you can always try to work things out so that you rarely get to see them. This will almost give you the special visiting status you acquire after moving out, which is the determinant factor for the improvement of the parents-offspring relationship.
Not quite though, because you are still depending on them and under their roof, and don't think they'll forget it or shy away at throwing it at your face every change they get.
