Living with parents again? How it works while saving to get out

Caroline Bentham, 37, who has lived with her mother Mary in Yorkshire for seven years, says the experience has been really positive – although she “never thought I’d be this into my 30s”.

In the year She separated from her partner in 2019 and had only six to 12 months to live with her mother when she started her PhD. But then the pandemic hit with various life events and she said staying was “meaningful.”

She says the transition back to living together was a “real challenge” at first, as her mother struggled to relinquish control in areas like the kitchen. They also had “a lot of arguments” as they worked out “how to get closer to each other”.

“It may sound cliché, but we had to learn a new way of communicating,” she says.

One of the biggest benefits of living with her mother is the emotional support they give each other, Caroline said. But she admits the arrangement is sometimes not good for her self-esteem and there is “definitely a stigma about living with parents”.

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Cristodolidi says one of the benefits of living with a parent as an adult is the opportunity to get to know them in a different way.

“Parents often begin to see their child as another adult, but adult children gain a greater understanding of their parents not simply as parents, but as people.”

Society needs to get rid of the idea that adult children still living at home “didn’t make it to begin with,” she says.

Natasha said that living with her family helps her to remind herself that it is a “temporary” situation that will lead to better results in the future.

The extra time she gets to spend with her parents is a “blessing,” she added.

“One day I’ll leave home, get married and have my own family, and I won’t have much time with them,” she says.