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6 Things to Consider Moving Back Home With Family

Dominic Medford
3 min readJun 13, 2024

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You have been working towards being your own person and thought that living at home was behind you. One thing lead to another and next minute you find yourself right back in your childhood bedroom and feeling the eyes of similarly everyone to see what you will do next.

Before thinking about the 6 things to consider when making this transition back to your family home be grateful. Right now it may feel like you are unlucky, you might feel down in the dumps and dejected, feeling like a failure and maybe even unworthy of love. What’s important to consider is how lucky you are to have a family that will accept you into their home, love you, care for you and help you regroup and prepare for the next step in your life journey.

To give you some quick background on my predicament so that you can understand where I am coming from when I give you this advice.

I moved out of home before I turned 18 and have been living my life until now. I am recently 24 years old and have come to the hard decision that I can’t afford to live how I have been and cannot see a way forward in the short term without returning back home. My parents currently both work full time and my sister is currently in her final month of high school. When I left home she was still in elementary school. We all have a great family relationship but…

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Dominic Medford
Dominic Medford

Written by Dominic Medford

Law and Political Sciences student in Australia who dabbles in writing about his thought processes in his spare time with the hope that it can be insightful.

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