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[ltgmars]

After talking to my parents, I've come to the decision to stick around at home for a little more -- try to find a job at the university, maybe (because it's easiest to work here), and live at home and save up money. It'll give me the time to really get together a fund for whenever I'm ready to move out for good. In the meantime, I'm going to try to

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[lysanderpuck]

omg i'm commenting just to say
if i don't text my mother every day she gets angry, every other if i'm in a foreign country
if i didn't contact her for months she would fly out to wherever i was and start turning over rocks

[ltgmars]

Haha yeeeeaaahhhhh it always amazed me when my college friends, like. Talked to their parents.

[sesquerdo]

Hi! ^.^ *waves shyly

[ltgmars]

Haha yeah, there's a lot of navigating to be done when living at home, both monetarily and socially. I guess I'm getting used to it, but there's always that part of me that's itching to be away from home and taking care of myself and not answering to other people. :/ I guess I'm an independent spirit like that. XD

Thank you for your well wishes! And thanks for commenting. :D We're friends now, so do feel free to comment all you want on whatever~

[twosen]

Oh gosh, so totally can relate. I've been living on a different continent from my parents for the past half decade but circumstances dictated me having to go home and live with them. It's been less than a month so far and even though I technically went 'home', i'm still experiencing culture shock since i've never actually lived in my own home country as an adult! It's a little weird since I'm so used to my own freedom and it does feel a little like my wings have been clipped but at the same time, it's refreshing - I've finally had conversations with my parents as an equal rather than as the whole filial daughter thing.

[ltgmars]

Yeah, it's definitely a lot of things to balance at once, living at home. And coming back home from waaaay elsewhere in your case, wow. :o I feel like for me, I spent so much of the first few months at home (I can't believe it hasn't even been five months yet) feeling like I reverted back to a child who didn't know anything. I already had a lot of tension with my parents (my mom especially) when I was a teenager because I hate being patronized and she was the worst about it, and it's especially hard to feel that way when I'm 25 and haven't had to deal with it for six years. :/

Anyway, good luck to you on the living at home business, and may we both find a way to go back out on our own, sooner than later. XD

[twosen]

it's especially hard to feel that way when I'm 25 and haven't had to deal with it for six years. :/
THIS.

No matter how old we get, what job we get, how accomplished we get - we'll still always be their little girls. Which is both great and terrible. So now I'm at home feeling like a kid again, but at the same time I've actually just gotten a job with waaay more responsibilities, so I'm kinda regressing and progressing at the same time! And now that makes me want to listen to Nino's Regress of Progress...

[ltgmars]

Haha maybe that song was made for this moment in our lives. XD And congrats on the new job! What's the deets? :o