Living with Parents

Of course I mean after the age of 18 (or presumably when you are "of age").

I understand that there are some hardcore slackers in the world who live with there parents as there are people who are pampered by there parents even at grotesque ages, but regardless of how sad or pathetic the reason it never sounds good to say, "Yea, I live with my mom."

I will admit, I am moving back with my mother after living an incredibly long three months away from any family. This is not because I'm a slacker, although this could be argued, but my mother is having financial issues and with my ability to get a decent paying job I will be paying a part of the mortgage to her house until she figures out how to lower the payment. There is also a possibility that I'll be cosigning for the house as well, which means I'll be living with my mom in a house I partially own. Now that doesn't sound so bad, but my mom would still be the "bread winner".

Coming from a family where there is a long history of single mothers, living with my mom doesn't feel wrong at all. I've only come to realize that now, at age 22, it does sound really bad, especially if I'm trying to pick up women.

So my questions for you, my fellow GFFers are the following:

Are you living with the parents?
Are you a slacker or in a somewhat peculiar situation?
When did you leave the "nest"?
What's the first thing you think, without knowing the details, when somone says they live with their parents (and they normally "shouldn't" be)?

Of course you can interject your opinions where needed.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well I suppose it also has a lot to do with the parent-child relationship. Are the parents over bearing in their beliefs and drown the children in them? This would definitely drive me crazy and want to be free from that.

Luckily my mother and I see eye-to-eye on most things and I've never had many strict rules set before me. Sure as a young teenager I hated her guts for whatever juvenile reasons, but in retrospect I understand all of her actions and decisions. This and I can never hold anything against her, mostly because she is my mother and she worked hard for twenty years to give me as much of a life that wasn't ghetto as possible. I must say she did a splendid job!

I really don't want her to have to get a lame apartment or condo, her house is pretty great, and if I can help her keep it then I will. The house is almost a symbol of her "making it" as a successful person, even with all the circumstances that wouldn't have allowed it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.