Reply to 20 yr old - Sophomore College Living Situation

Forum Index » Adult Children

Reply to "20 yr old - Sophomore College Living Situation"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmmm. There are a lot of young adult children replying to this post.[/quote]

OP here, please reply. I need to gauge my feelings against other moms with daughters in college, or against women who also lived with a college BF. [/quote]

13:42 here.  I’m not a young adult, I’m a GenX mom.  I’ve been around the block enough to know that it’s important for a young woman to have her own space, even if she spends alot of time with a boyfriend.  She becomes quite vulnerable if she has no place of her own to go.   I’d never let a 20 year be reliant on a boyfriend for housing.  [/quote]

Another GenX mom to a college junior who is a boy. I wouldn’t want him to have his girlfriend moving in with him. He’s not dating anyone now, but was on/off with someone for 2 years. When they were on, it was intense. If she had officially moved in with him and then had no place to go when they broke up, it would have been an unnecessary burden on both of them to navigate. Relationships at that age have a high likelihood of not lasting. View this as a phase, OP. Don’t make her give up the apartment and if you do have her start paying, make it because it’s time she owned more financial responsibility or has time in her schedule to contribute money, not because she’s spending time at her boyfriend’s apartment. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics