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What motivated you to leave the family home when you did? (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 days ago by violet08@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I’m curious, as I never got that feeling, quite the opposite, actually. I can’t imagine living anywhere else at the moment, or in the foreseeable future. I love the house and the people who work here. I love the location. There are only my parents and me in a big place, so there’s a lot of privacy and room to breathe. Plus, my parents, for all their faults, are really cool people to hang out with.

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[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

My mom sold the house.

I was the youngest of three, and my parents told us all that as long as we were in school (including college), we could stay and they would pay for college. My brothers both got the benefit of this (oldest ended up staying outside of that for a couple years, but whatever).

My dad died in August after my graduation. My mom and aunt had inherited some money from my great-aunt and bought a house together near a college my mom wanted to go to, so she sold the childhood home (that I'd lived in my entire life) and said "good luck."

Completely understandable, and I'm glad she got to live the life she wanted. She's a nurse now (mostly retired, can't seem to make it stick), remarried, and they're building their own house. And my aunt now lives in the house they bought.

And I'm doing awesome (40s, two kids, wife of 16 years, set to retire in a town in Alaska we love, own our own house), honestly a lot better off than either of my brothers, so I can't complain about how anything happened, other than wishing my dad was around longer.