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The Benefits of Living With Your Family as an Adult
I still live with my mum and sister at twenty-nine years old and I couldn’t be happier about that.
In the past few weeks, whilst I have been under lock-down, I have begun to realize how grateful I am to still be living with my mum and sister. I used to feel embarrassed, even ashamed at times, for not having my own place to live at twenty-nine years old, but this period of lock-down has helped me to see my living arrangements in a more positive light.
When my depression has been rearing its ugly head at various points during this pandemic, I have been grateful to have people around me who I can simply talk to. While many people are having to substitute real person-person contact for Zoom-mediated conversations, I’m able to sit down and talk with my mum, person to person, and share a meaningful conversation. It really is something special to have a constant and readily available source of love and compassion — in the form of my mum and sister — living under the same roof as myself.
Before COVID-19, the benefits of my living arrangements were still there, I just didn’t notice them as much because I was too concerned about what other people thought of me still living in my family home. I’m starting to accept that what other people think of my…
