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We both moved away from our parents for schooling, and have lived alone or with roomates (never each other) for the past 6 years. Neither of us plan on moving home before the wedding; I'm not sure either of us could handle it!
Yep, we will both be living with each of our parents until a few months before the wedding. I can't wait to buy a house, I will finally feel more like an adult! But, that's just me, not insulting anyone :)
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We both moved away from home for college (I went a semi-long distance; he went a short one) and have lived with roommates since. I don't like having people do things for me, and I adjusted very easily to living on my own. Much as I love them, I can't really go home and stay with my parents for more than a few days without starting to lose my mind. My FI has been out of college for several years and has just been able to afford his own place (no roommates!) for the past two years, and I am only five months out of college, so I've always lived with roommates -- Boston is an expensive city! We are moving in together this summer.
I was a very independent teen and couldn't wait to move out on my own. I left at 19. We moved in together right away but didn't get married for another 4 1/2 years.
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My fiance and I lived on our own (not together, but not living with our parents) for a few years (2 for me and 4 for him). After we got engaged, we both moved back home in order to save money for our wedding/life together. It has been hard for both of us, but it is definitely worth it. We will be starting our life together in a place more secure than most people I know. I am very thankful for it. Luckily, I don't have to be at home much longer though!! Only 8 1/2 months!!! :)
I just graduated from college and am thankful that my parents are allowing me to live here at home and save some money to pay off those students loans. I want to pay off as much of it as possible before getting married. But F is itching for us to move into together asap haha
we're both in school, and we have our own apartments (with roommates) here, but when at home (summer, holidays, etc.) we live with our parents. i'll still be in school when we get married, so we'll be moving in to one apartment in december. i'm so excited!
We both stayed at home just trying to save up money. A couple months before the wedding he moved out on his own and a couple months after that I followed. By then there were about 2 months left until the wedding, so we went almost until the end.
In the beginning we both lived with our respective parents. And through most of our dating it stayed that way. We got engaged in Dec. and he will graduate in June. He plans on moving out on his own a couple months after that. I won't move in with him until after we are married. It is common in our church for the girls to live with their parents until they are married (people get married pretty young in our church) or get a very steady job.
We are both living at my mom's now. It is really helping us to save for our wedding and our future home. My fiance moved up to Boston from Jersey, so we save a lot of rent money by living with my mom. It helps her too because my fiance helps around the yard and with the cars.
Part of me wishes I could still live at home and pay down some loans....but...it was either live at home and live 12 hours away from Mr. Bananas, or move out.
I do miss home a lot, but the LDR was beginning to cause a real strain on our relationship.
I haven't really lived with my parents since I went away to college, though I did stay with them occasionally during breaks. My fiance lived with his mother until I moved back to the DC area a year and a half ago, then he just moved in with me! I kind of wish he had lived on his own first though; I knew how to take care of the bills and deal with roommates, but he had never done any of that before.
Neither of us has lived at home since college, although I think I might find it a little odd if he HAD been living at home, seeing as how he was 33 hen we met!
We have been living together since before we started dating. It was a convenience thing and it worked out pretty well I think!
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I lived with my parents, then roommates, then parents up until the wedding. My husband lived with his parents then roommates until we moved in together 2 weeks before our wedding.
I'm about to move back South at the end of March and into my parents' house until the wedding in May. My family's very conservative and doesn't believe in living together before marriae. I think it will be nice to have my mom there to help finish all the wedding plans, and my FI and dog will be a mere three hours away (compared to 17 currently), and we've waited this long, so it won't be so bad waiting a couple more months.
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I'm about to move back South at the end of March and into my parents' house until the wedding in May. My family's very conservative and doesn't believe in living together before marriage. I think it will be nice to have my mom there to help finish all the wedding plans, and my FI and dog will be a mere three hours away (compared to 17 currently), and we've waited this long, so it won't be so bad waiting a couple more months, altough I've lived on my own for the past four years, so that may be a little weird, but it's temporary!
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I haven't lived with my parents - not even for a summer - since I was 18! They left my hometown, and I was a pretty independent person, so wanted to be on my own (plus my parents lived a 12 hour drive away!). Since college, I had roomates for 3 years and my own place for 4 years before moving in with my then boyfriend, now husband.
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Mr. MagPie and I are still in our parents' homes. But, we just signed a lease on an apartment, and will move in March 6. I'm super excited -- we've been together 7.5 years, and dated through college and long distance (while I was in grad school). Admittedly, I'm nervous about each other's little ideosyncracies driving one another crazy -- which is why I wanted to get the move-in taken care of several months before the wedding!
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Oddly enough I am currently living with my fiance's family. I hit a rough patch with my own family while I was still in school, and my fiance's family welcomed me in their home before we were even engaged. My fiance and I are trying to save some money while living at home to pay for the wedding and also save for our first home together.
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Its so great to hear i'm not the only one STILL living with my parents! At this point, its no longer about doing the "traditional" thing, but the "money" thing! Like most of you, we too are saving our pennies for a house to own. With rising costs of weddings, I don't understand how anyone can afford NOT to live with there parents (those lucky bums...)!
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I moved back with my parents after college. But when I got a job, we wanted to change that arrangement. My FI lives about 10 blocks from my work, and as a compromise, we got engaged so that my parents would give me the blessing to move in.
Nope - as much as I love my parents and talk to them on a daily basis, living with them is just not a viable option. I lived away for college and moved home after college for just a summer and it was a really hard adjustment. Thankfully my fiance was able to stand it better then I, and he lived at home for a year and saved money and bought a condo (so impressive for a 23 year old in my opinion!!)
I then lived with roommates for three years and moved in with my fiance (before we were engaged). For us, I think it was perfect, it's not for everyone. But also living with our parents would not have worked for either of our jobs as our parents are in the suburbs and our jobs are in the city.
Like Miss Chocolate Chip it's great to realize I'm not the only one going through this! My family is very traditional so I am living at home while FI lives in the condo that we bought last July. I really can't wait till I can finally move in after the wedding this July!
I have a great relationship with mom and dad, but I moved out at 18 for college and never looked back. Lets just say if I were to move back in, I think our relationship would get un-great very fast. I lived in another city for college and with roommates over the summers. I know its a growing trend for people in their 20's to keep living with their parents but I would personally feel like a burden. I already feel like I owe them so much and have trouble accepting more freebees from them, or anyone. The fact that my mom wants to pay for my wedding dress is hard enough to swallow! Honestly I would probably not marry someone that lived with his parents because I would worry he didn't know how to take care of himself and maybe was too used to being cleaned up after. My fiance and I are now dependent on eachother for a lot of things, but neither of us ever want to depend on anyone else. But, I can see how it would make it way easier to afford a house!
I moved home about 5 years ago to save money and I will lived with my parents when FH and I met 3 yrs ago and I will live with them until FH and I get married in August :)
The hardest part is that we're looking into buy a condo right now and if we get one before we're married he'll live there w/o me until we get married.
We're planning to (finally) get a place together a couple of months before the wedding, but I guess the delay has been more about the fact that I go to school out-of-state than anything else. :)
I'm living with my parents. He's living on his own in his (our) house. We lived 5 miles apart up intill 2 years ago...now we're 400 miles apart. I'm moving the day after we get back from our honeymoon.
We're both still living at home. Having just graduated last summer and with him just starting a full time job and me still looking, we just aren't able to leave yet.
I will move in with the Mr, one way or another, before the wedding but it's looking like it will be right before at this rate! He (and me to an extent) believe that renting is dead money so we're buying once we've got a deposit together!
Yup! Mr. Eggie and I both lived with our respective parents until we were wed. I think it's a cultural thing; our parents would've taken it as an insult if we didn't live with them. They would've thought that we didn't want to be with them so badly, we'd actually pay money not to. The whole independence/boundaries thing just doesn't make sense to them.
I got my own apartment right after graduating from college. I had accepted a job offer, but hadn't actually started work yet - so my folks helped out with the rent until my first paycheck. My husband also never lived with his parents after college, although he generally had roommates rather than living alone.
We have two kids (his from his previous marriage) and we've discussed what we think is right for them - they are 18 and 21. We've agreed that we expect them to move out when they are done with college and that, like my folks, we will help them a little with expense if necessary in order to make that possible. They probably will have to have roommates, or if they don't, they'll probably live in tiny little apartments that aren't that nice and without much furniture - just like we did. And they'll probably have to do without a lot of things (250+ channels, Tivo, ski vacations) just like we did.
But we both think that the actual experience of being independent is pretty valuable. For women particularly, I think it's good to really know that you can take care of yourself and support yourself. Once you know that you don't really need a man for that, you can perhaps make different kinds of choices in a relationship. And for guys it's equally important to understand what it takes to keep a house clean, cook a real dinner, and all those other things that sort of magically got done by your mom.
Plus, honestly, we want them gone. I have all kinds of respect for those of you who have managed to live with your parents past the age of 20 and really make it work - you are obviously extraordinary women. Both DH's kids are good kids - they're smart, funny, good students, and don't get in trouble. But they are also self-absorbed, not that considerate, and with not a lot of respect for other people's things. We love them, but they aren't good roommates - which is my basic criteria for sharing a house with another adult. We're hopeful that they act differently with people who are not their parents.
I did - mostly. I really wanted to move out of my parents home and on my own, but rent was too expensive for me. But I still looked, and after breaking down the monthly damage with me (FI is the money savvy one), he told me to wait a year, and that he promises to move in with me - knowing that I didn't want to move in with him until AFTER we're engaged.
But what ended up happening was he moved in with me and my parents 5 months before we got engaged. And he proposed 1 week after we moved into an apartment together.
I think everything worked out perfectly. My parents are pretty cool and understanding - but, I think they already considered him family...we have dated for almost 8 years now!
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I lived on my own and with roommates for a few years and then moved back to my parents' when I started to save to purchase an apartment. Mr. C and I got engaged, so we were both saving for our apartment... and the most logical solution was to both move in with my parents. We had separate bedrooms! And my parents were still uncomfortable with us living together until we were officially married!
I live with my mom. My son and I moved back home with my mom after my dad passed on. I have always said that I was not going to live with another man until I was married and to be honest it is only because of my boy. So after I am married I will still be living with my mom and hoping that my then husband will change his mind and move in with us. See we cannot get a house until June due to the mortgage we are getting, and we are getting married in May. So I hope all works out well for us!
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until you got engaged or married?
I did! I moved to New York after Mr. Bee and I got engaged (I was 25). In Asian culture it's customary for daughters to live at home until they get married... my parents would never in a million years have let me move to New York if I wasn't engaged!
Any other peeps out there who lived at home?