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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What? No, her kids work FT in good careers. The fact that they want to live at home makes me think she’s a good mom! She always gave me a good vibe of being the kind of parent who somehow manages to hold her kids to high standards but have a warm relationship at the same time.[/quote]

NP—yeah this is [b]not[/b] “failure to launch”. Failure to launch is no school, no training, unemployed, still living at home.

This is just someone who gets along well enough with her adult kids to let them live at home in order to avoid them paying out the a*s for rent. And the kids get along well enough with their parents to take them up on that offer. [/quote]

The kids are probably spending their paychecks on hotels or airBNBs on the weekends so they can [b]party like grown people[/b] vs living in mom and dad's house.[/quote]

We have different definitions of "party like grown people". Party like grown people in my house means to go out, have fun, drink/eat/dance/go to a concert, then take an Uber home.

Partying like a drunk frat boy is not what grown people do.

My 22 year old lives above our detached garage. He works full time, is finishing college with zero debt, and has a healthy savings account.  He's light years ahead of where I was at 22.  He can stay as long as is comfortable. [/quote]

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