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My Parents and My Kids Live At Home

How Room Additions Just Happen It’s 3am and my son comes home with his wife on Saturday. My home. I must have woken up when he locked his car, because it lets out a HONK when it does and my bedroom is right by the driveway. I also know that at 8am I’ll have to wake him up to move his car b ecause I’m driving my mother to her swim class. She hated the beach when I was a kid. My parents and my kids are living at home. My mother out of necessity. My son out of ‘financial responsibility.’ Those semi-quotes are going to have people raising their brows. Trust me. I’ve read the newspapers - Or the more dire. I’m 43. My kid living at home isn’t helping me live any longer. But sometimes I wonder, and It’s just a thought, that maybe my Mom’s going to have a better life living with us. She probably feels the same about me. “Living at my son’s house isn’t keeping me going!” No matter the case, I realized that the money wasn’t there for a straight move out to a bi...

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