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OftenBen · 2228 days ago · link · · parent · post: People who have moved out of parents, how old were you when you left?
It's astonishing how fast ones tolerance for their parents BS drops once you've lived away from them for any length of time.
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."--Mark Twain This was much of my experience. Out to college, home working summers, starting at 18. Then for good at 24.