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[quote=Anonymous]My brother moved home after military service and let my mom cook for him, clean for him, do laundry for him, shop for him while he contributed only nominally to household costs. He did go to school and work, but contributed just about nothing instead spending all on himself. I thought it was really gross and I know he and my father got into it about it on occasion, but he was the golden child so my mother wouldn’t hear of him being encouraged to move out - he only did when he married, and by the time he’d driven her to divorce he lived too far from home to move back in with my parents.

I moved out as soon as I could and NEVER considered going back. It cost me a ton financially to take that position, but I couldn’t stand having to see my parents marriage for the 18 years I was there and after my first taste of living free of that toxicity and my father’s tyranny I wasn’t ever going to voluntarily submit myself again.

I have to say I had some envy of the folks who lived at home so they could save up or spend less for education, but I have no idea what kind of sh*t they might have been eating daily for that benefit.

I guess at some level I’m thankful my parents made life at home so miserable, because it drove me to figure out how to make it on my own.

28 is very old to be living like a teenager and totally mooching off the ‘rents. Perhaps she’s just a total failure to launch.[/quote]

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