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Was pleased to get married at the age of 20, meant we could go out in the evening and not have to worry about what time I got home, was even able to go and see a film from beginning to end, instead of going early to see the end first!!

My daughter left when she went to Uni but I never moved anything in her bedroom except to clean of course. Until I moved house nearly 20 years later, that was referred to as her room. Now she just drops in as she pleases, usually raids the fridge while she's here, so what's changed, lol June xx

ive only got on with my parents since i moved out! i was 17 when i went to live in my own flat.im now 27 with 3 children of my own..love mum and dad to bits..but couldnt live with them again.x i joke with my own that il get them each a flat for their 16th birthday lol...dnt mean it though.x

I left home when I was 20, but my brother in his 40s has moved back in with mum. With my own sons I've told them that when they are 18 if they haven't left home, then I will! nell

I left home at 17 when my parents moved to another area. They came back a year later, I returned another year until I got married at 19. Don't in all honesty think I would have got married at that age if all the upheaval hadn't happened. Have got my silver anniversary in June but it's no bed of roses!!

Daniel, My dad had worked in Arabia since I was 12, coming home for a month a year. He had also converted to Islam, and taught religion and how to fly planes!! When I was 15 - and coming up to my GCE's, mum wanted to go and live with him. I had a choice - no O levels and a ilfe of luxury, which entailed not only not being able to go out on my own, but wearing a burkha whenever I went out, and walking 9 paces behind my dad!!! (nothing to do with my dad's religion - just the law of the land!!) Or GCE's and fending for myself. I chose the latter, and my 19 year old sister was made my legal guardian!! LOL (like she was interested LOL) So essentially, with a little financial support for a year, home left me when I was 15!!!! maggie

They still are! In my defence though, I did leave home to go away to university, aged 20, and deliberately chose one (Hertfordshire) that was far enough away from home that I couldn't very well go crawling back home whenever I fancied it. That was followed by 9 months spent in Brighton and 18 months in Germany. In my time away, I spent a couple of nights in Istanbul and a fortnight in Tel Aviv, Israel. However the last 3 years have been spent back in the family nest, as I can't afford just yet to be paying rent and bills once more.

Hi Daniel. I left home at a very young age. ( to young ) I was 13 years old, and a very rebellious child. This was in 1961, when my dad died. I just left school and my home one day and never returned. ( a very stupid child ) But i thought i knew everything ( as you do at 13 ) and was about to learn a very valuable lesson in life. I travelled with two mates around Australia, working on farms and fruit picking. I wasn't kicked out of home, so it was my own fault. My education suffered badly. Tony Oz

well daniel, you always put up with your kids,my son has just come back to live with me at the age of 36, and he will be welcome to stay as long as he needs to...my other son also knows that if he ever needs to come home for whatever reason he is welcome

This has been a really interesting thread to read. Like many people here, I left home when I married, I was 19, my husband, 21. that was in 1973. My two boys are still at home aged 23 and 25, no sign of them leaving, lack of money being a big hurdle. They will stay for as long as they want/need to. Suex

Moved in with my gran when I was 18 and then went to live with a girlfriend at 19 - but have moved back a couple of times :)

I lived with my mother until I was 12 as father got custody. He got married again. My stepmother and I did'nt get on and I was kicked out just after my 16th birthday to live in a hostel. Jo.

I left home to get married at the age of 22, although I'd have left years before if it had been possible, as my Mother had been hell to live with for the previous 10 years, since my Father died. Our son is still living at home at the age of 26, as he can't afford to live elsewhere, but we've always got on very well as a family, so he is happy, and very welcome, to stay with us as long as he wishes. CB >|<