Role modeling

[empty_fork]

Here's one good thing I think I've taught my students this year:

When you move out of your mom's place, you don't have to move in with your spouse or spouse-equivalent. You can move in with your housemates. You can sustain this lifestyle choice well into adulthood, as long as you don't mind continuing to be read as young and cheerful. If your

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[cos]

>> I wish I'd been converted earlier myself.

... who did you first move in with? Or did you just stay at parents' too long?

[empty_fork]

I moved in with the college first, because it was mandatory.

First chance I got, I moved out of my dorm and in with the high school boyfriend, my big sister, and my big sister's newborn baby, and from there to a dirty depressing apartment with the boyfriend only: exactly where I'd have been if I'd quit my education after high school. My social options had changed with my move to join an educated elite, but my social values hadn't.

When the romantic partnership fell apart on me in my thesis year, though, I had all these fascinating classmates to upgrade to housemates, and I did so, forever and ever, amen. Except for a few more stays with the family, right? There are always a few more stays with the family.

[cos]

Are there always?

I went to college and moved to a dorm. Summer came and I moved back to my mother's... for two weeks, before I impromptu moved in with a couple of women from my part time job for the rest of the summer. I never moved back home. The next few years during summer and winter break I found sublets near school, even though my mother lived in the next town.

But then, during grad school, when I had surgery at the beginning of one winter break and spent the rest of it recovering, I spent those weeks at my dad & stepmother's place. Which was not somewhere I'd ever lived before, but was a stay with the family. That was the last one.

[glowing_fish]

Wait...are you suggesting that people should move out of their mom's place?!?!?!?

Why would someone want to do that?

[unkle_social]

So you can move back!

[glowing_fish]

I like the way you think.

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