My house is big, but also he is asexual so that doesn’t pose a problem. When his friends come over, I make myself scarce by retreating into my room. We are blessed to have space to ignore each other when we want.
It’s trickier when one’s house is small – back in my younger days I remember having my boyfriend over to my parents’ house. Luckily they were very welcoming and didn’t try to make it awkward. I do think privacy for sex is a good reason to get a separate place.
My son is 27 and lives with me. We get along great. I like having him around. There is zero reason for him to pour money down the drain paying rent and utilities in a separate household. Not to mention the ecological impact of doubling the appliances and construction materials and everything else just so we can live apart. If he ever wants to get married it makes sense, but otherwise it seems really foolish the way our society expects us to live isolated from family in our own expensive boxes. I’d like to see the shaming of adults living with family just stop.
Edited to add: I acknowledge many people don’t have good families and need to get away. I’m just saying it’s silly to feel shame for doing something that is economically and socially beneficial just because society expects it
Not okay with any of it.
Why bother? Those of us who believe it have no leverage to do anything about it. Those with the power to do something about it would rather fiddle as Rome burns.
It makes me glad I only had one kid and he’s not planning to procreate.
Instead of more slaughter, I’d like to see them provide land and assistance for a new Palestine in a safe place. Instead they won’t even take in refugees.
FBI Surveillance Van
I don’t ever go back and look at the votes.
I don’t understand why the US feels they can tell other countries what they will and will not allow. (I am American BTW)
You echo my experience to a T. Sometimes people assume I’m a man to hilarious effect, but most of the time it’s a non-issue.
What we really need is for lightning to come down out of the sky onto the orange one’s head and take him out. Crossing fingers.
Democrats need to find somebody young, dynamic, yet with a bit of gravitas to run for president. I don’t plan to vote for Trump even if the other choice is a steaming pile of dung, but running a dude who appears to be senile is a bad choice.
So. Much. This.
All good reasons. The first two don’t apply in our situation, luckily. But you make good points. I just wish people didn’t feel the need to shame others for making this choice.
I’ve always thought that society is stupid for expecting young people to automatically leave the nest. It’s economically, emotionally, and ecologically far better to share if you can. Why should my son get a separate dwelling with its own appliances, maintenance, and everything else, when I have a big house with plenty of room for him to stay? I’m 61 and he’s 27. Living together helps us both. I have no patience with people who think this is somehow shameful on his part.
I have a theory that part of this is due to the dying out of religion as a way to keep the masses in line.