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Oh dear, Leocube, I can totally relate to you. I feel the same, I love my parents but I can’t be around them all the time. I moved out of home at age 21, 18 years ago and moved to a different state (in Australia) and lived happily on my own for 18 years, loved it all. I had to move back to my home state end of last year, as opportunities became better here than where I had moved to. I have had to move back in to live with the parents, fortunately it is only temporary as I am building my own house which will be finished very soon. It has taken nearly 7 months to complete the house, but it will be finished next month, but for the last 10 months I have been living with my parents and omg I have been feeling the same things you have been, Leocube and I thought, am I selfish, self serving and all but I realised I am just an independent person who loves my own space and doing my own thing. I felt so much for you when you said you had been getting up at 6 am and cooking and all, and then suddenly you had been staying in your room all the time like a teenager, as that is exactly like me. I have been cooped up in the bedroom I’m staying in and not feeling like wanting to come out at all (except to do my artworks, which I was doing in the main area until I decided to take it all into the formal dining room that they don’t use and put plastic down on the table and all so it’s quieter but still not the same as my own studio that I had at my old place) and I just don’t feel like seeing them all the time and don’t want to talk all the time, finding it a bit hard. But I know in my mind I will be out of here soon, in a few weeks time. You’re not alone for sure and I hope your parents have since moved out. They really should not have moved in with you, that was rude, they could buy their own or rent a place.