Adults. At what age did you first leave home? Did you leave on your own accord or were you kicked out?

Question

What prompted you to make the decision to leave? Were you asked to leave or kicked out? Where did you go? As an adult how many times have you gone back home to live again?

Answer 1

I left at 21 of my own accord. I wanted to live on my own and got an apartment. I was working at the time and could afford it. I have never gone back and will never go back. I have learned to take care of myself and that way I have no one to blame if my life isn't the way I want it.

Answer 2

I was 19. I left, basically, as a means of running away from a lot of problems I had, very few of which had anything to do with being at home.

My decision to leave was prompted by a serious bout with clinical depression, and I was sure everything would be better if I could just get *away* and start over somewhere else. So I did. 2000 miles away.

I left of my own volition. My family actually did everything they could to get me to stay, because they could see what I couldn't - I was making a poor choice. (I admit that now, but wouldn't have then.)

Although it all worked out, but I did not have the first freaking clue as to the magnitude of what I was actually doing. I was going on a tightrope, blindfolded, out to the middle of Niagara Falls, and I had no idea. I thought I was just taking a lesiurely stroll down a sidewalk.

I've never gone back to live at home again, although I visit pretty regularly.

Answer 3

I first left home at age 18 to go to college, so obviously I was leaving on my own. It was very hard leaving my mother--who I was very close to--but I still wanted to go out and try it on my own. I lived in the dorm for half the school year, but I hated it so much (because of the public showers, the rules about friends spending the night, and ESPECIALLY because of my roommate!) that I started working more nights at my job so I could afford my own apartment. I was much happier having a place to call my own! The only time I went back home to live was over the summer after my freshman year at college when I was between apartment leases. After that, I just got year-round leases and never moved back home.

Answer 4

At the age of 15, I hitchhiked across country for a year. No, I have never went back home. I left on my own, I was not kicked out or asked to leave. I have done a great job of caring for myself ever since. I am one of the very fortunate and blessed individuals in the world. Not something I would recommend to anyone. God bless****

Answer 5

The first time I left home I was fresh out of high school and my brother ask me to move to Winter Garden Florida to baby sit his two kids while he and my sister in law worked, as they were new to the area and didn't know anyone to trust to leave there children with.The second time i moved out was at 19 I got a job as a live in care taker of an elderly couple. then at 21 I married my husband and moved to ohio where I still live at 43 years of age.
Each time I left home it was my decision, Thank God I had wonderful parents who always told me and my sister and two brothers and 7 grandchildren that as long as they had a roof over there head we all did too, and that they would never turn any of us out. And there were times that my sister and her daughter, my brothers and their wives and kids all had to move back home, and my husband and I lived with my parents for 8 months till we got moved into our own place, but we were never turned away or kicked out, and we all knew that we could call mom or dad at any time and go home. Up until the Friday before my father died when I was visiting him when I got ready to leave and go back to my house in Ohio he hugged me and said " If you want to come home you know the door is always open" and I said I know Dad.

Answer 6

I left at 18 to go into the Navy. When I got out of the Navy I lived in my parents basement apartment and went to school part time and worked full time. Then I got married and moved out.

My husband and I moved into the basement apartment when he graduated college and couldn't find a job for 8 months. That was a rough time, but we got through it.

My parents and I have a very good relationship and I am grateful that they were so generous with their home.

Answer 7

I left at 17 to join the Army and never went back. I went of my own accord but as I was under 18 my parents had to provide consent to my enlistment which wasn't an issue.
Both my older brothers were already in the army, my mother spent time in the army before she met my father and he used to be a fighter pilot in the air force.

Answer 8

I ran away at 14 for a week to my best friend's house. Of course, I went back home. You know, teen years. I moved out at 23 by choice and against tradition. Home is always open. I have my own house, but where I grew up will always be home. My old bedroom is still kept nearly the same as when I left. I still go there and hang out, take naps, etc. Home and my house are only 3 miles apart. My parents revolve around family life. Their house is headquarters for gatherings.

Answer 9

18 had have a year before graduation and got married and moved to a different state. Had my first child at the age of eighteen and left husband so moved back home. Went back to other state had had got mad moved out again back home then back to other state then had two more children and finally left for good went back to parents house again. Got job rented got behind on bills went back home then found antother palce same thing moved back in then after all that got another place but only two youngest moved back in with my parents and the oldest and me lived in a hotel. Then finally got out for good. So alot is the answer

Answer 10

Left at 17 (already graduated HS ... and was going on Active Duty with the Military). I was the oldest of the siblings, and our parents were already Elderly (our father was a WWII Paraplegic Veteran, and this was a FIRST marriage for both).

We all left early -- right after HS. We did not want to BURDEN our parents for having to pay for us ... so we all had jobs, we all saved our incomes (as much as possible), and lived lives very simply (and also ... we would go back and HELP them with the chores and things that needed to be maintained too).

Just shortly after all of us were in the Military, our father had a heart attack while driving (We TOLD them to NOT go out places ... and to wait ... but they were always independent!) ... and both died in the car crash.

So we never went home again ... just went on to establish our households .. and yes, go forth from there. We saved, we all had short disasters of marriages (to greedy, nasty ex-es -- in my case, he was violent, abusive and a sociopath), we PURCHASED our way out of those horrible shams of relationships .. and we DID succeed ... despite what the ex-es tried!