Nearly two thirds of single, child-free 20 to 34-year-olds live with their parents
As I stood in my empty childhood bedroom that had been stripped of pretty much all of my belongings, I felt like my heart was physically hurting.
This scene may seem dramatic, especially as I am a 29 year old woman moving out of my parents’ home for the second time, but I couldn’t help feeling overwhelmed. I was too young and naive to feel scared, and instead just felt excited. Endless games of ring of fire, and squeezing in a few uni lectures kept me distracted. Then I graduated and moved from Birmingham to London to begin my journalism career. It all happened so quickly I didn’t take in the gravity of moving away from the family home as a teenager, and never returning.
We orchestrated makeshift pub crawls around the house, went on long bike rides along the canals and watched hours of Schitt’s Creek episodes. My dad fixed my things before I even knew they were broken, and my mum was always there to listen to my ‘problems’ over a glass of wine. It was idyllic. I have never been so scared. I doubted my credentials as an adult, and if I could truly function in the real world. What if I leave the house without my keys? How will I come up with seven dinners to cook every single week? What will I do if I have a laundry question? What if I can't sleep because I'm thinking about burglars? What if I'm a person who isn't designed to live without their parents? Of course, I was forgetting this isn't my first rodeo.
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